321 results about "Diamond substrate" patented technology

Provided are coated sleeved oil and gas well production devices and methods of making and using such coated sleeved devices. In one form, the coated sleeved oil and gas well production device includes an oil and gas well production device including one or more bodies and one or more sleeves proximal to the outer or inner surface of the one or more bodies, and a coating on at least a portion of the inner sleeve surface, outer sleeve surface, or a combination thereof, wherein the coating is chosen from an amorphous alloy, a heat-treated electroless or electro plated based nickel-phosphorous composite with a phosphorous content greater than 12 wt %, graphite, MoS₂, WS₂, a fullerene based composite, a boride based cermet, a quasicrystalline material, a diamond based material, diamond-like-carbon (DLC), boron nitride, and combinations thereof. The coated sleeved oil and gas well production devices may provide for reduced friction, wear, erosion, corrosion, and deposits for well construction, completion and production of oil and gas.

A display device with multiple low temperature diamond coatings, including a substrate as a base; an anode layer residing on the diamond substrate for emitting holes; a hole drift layer that includes a doped diamond coating residing on the anode layer; an emissive layer for emitting light and residing on the hole drift layer. The display device also includes an electron transport layer that includes a doped diamond coating residing on the light emitting layer; a cathode layer, residing on the electron transport layer, for emitting electrons that will drift towards the light emitting layer; and a diamond coated encapsulation layer for sealing the display device from atmospheric moisture; wherein the multiple low temperature diamond coatings are all formed below 750° C. on the display device.

An x-ray source comprises a structured anode that has a thin top layer made of the desired target material and a thick bottom layer made of low atomic number and low density materials with good thermal properties. In one example, the anode comprises a layer of copper with an optimal thickness deposited on a layer of beryllium or diamond substrate. This structured target design allows for the use of efficient high energy electrons for generation of characteristic x-rays per unit energy deposited in the top layer and the use of the bottom layer as a thermal sink. This anode design can be applied to substantially increase the brightness of stationary, rotating anode or other electron bombardment-based sources where brightness is defined as number of x-rays per unit area and unit solid angle emitted by a source and is a key figure of merit parameter for a source.

The present invention relates to hard coating of ferrous metal substrates using a laser beam with diamond particles in a metal matrix produced from precursor powders of metals which bond to the diamond particles and to the ferrous substrate. The hard coating is particularly useful for white iron castings for pumps ( 200 ) used in piping tar sand and water mixtures.

The invention discloses a homogeneous epitaxial lateral growth method for diamond. The method comprises the following steps: 1, depositing a mask layer on the bottom surface of a monocrystal diamond substrate; 2, patterning the surface, deposited with the mask layer, of the substrate, thus forming the substrate with a patterned surface, wherein the patterned surface of the substrate is divided into a homogeneous epitaxial growth area and a lateral growth area; and 3, carrying out homogeneous epitaxial diamond growth in the homogeneous epitaxial growth area, and carrying out lateral diamond growth in the lateral growth area. By combining with the lateral growth method, an existing homogeneous epitaxial growth technique of monocrystal diamond is improved; a monocrystal diamond film which is low in dislocation density, high in quality and smooth in surface can effectively grow; the difficulty in epitaxial growth of the monocrystal diamond film for an electronic device is reduced; the film quality is improved; and meanwhile, the technique can be applied to control over the growth structure of the monocrystal diamond film, so as to obtain a monocrystal diamond micro-structure required by MEMS and the like.

An n-type diamond epitaxial layer 20 is formed by processing a single-crystalline {100} diamond substrate 10 so as to form a {111} plane, and subsequently by causing diamond to epitaxially grow while n-doping the diamond {111} plane. Further, a combination of the n-type semiconductor diamond, p-type semiconductor diamond, and non-doped diamond, obtained in the above-described way, as well as the use of p-type single-crystalline {100} diamond substrate allow for a pn junction type, a pnp junction type, an npn junction type and a pin junction type semiconductor diamond to be obtained.

A method for producing a diamond having an acicular projection array structure on a surface thereof comprises the step of forming the acicular projection array structure on a surface of a diamond base material by treating the surface of the diamond base material by dry etching using oxygen gas. At least one dopant selected among boron (B), nitrogen (N), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), copper (Cu), arsenic (As), molybdenum (Mo), platinum (Pt) and gold (Au) is doped with a concentration of 1×10¹⁹ atoms/cm³ and more at least in a region near the surface of the diamond base material.

The present invention provides methods of forming high quality diamond bodies under high pressure, and the diamond bodies produced by such methods. In one aspect, a method may include for joining together a plurality of diamond segments to form a diamond body. The method may include placing the plurality of diamond segments in close proximity under high pressure in association with a molten catalyst and a carbon source, and maintaining the plurality of diamond segments under high pressure in the molten catalyst until the plurality of diamond segments have joined into a single diamond body.

Graphene layers and associated methods are disclosed. In one aspect, for example, a method of making graphene on a diamond substrate is provided. Such a method can include applying a layer of a metal to a crystallographic face of the diamond substrate, and heating the diamond substrate under vacuum to convert a portion of the diamond substrate at the crystallographic face into graphene. In another aspect, the layer of metal is applied only on diamond substrate faces having a same crystallographic orientation. In yet another aspect, the layer of metal is applied to only a single crystallographic face of the diamond substrate. Additionally, in one aspect, converting the portion of the diamond substrate at the crystallographic face into graphene includes converting the portion of the diamond substrate by a martensitic transformation.

Electronic assemblies and methods for forming assemblies including a diamond substrate are described. One embodiment includes providing a diamond support and forming a porous layer of SiO₂ on the diamond support. A diamond layer is formed by chemical vapor deposition on the porous layer so that the porous layer is between the diamond support and the diamond layer. A polycrystalline silicon layer is formed on the diamond layer. The polycrystalline silicon layer is polished to form a planarized surface. A semiconductor layer is coupled to the polysilicon layer. After coupling the semiconductor layer to the polysilicon layer, the diamond support is detached from the diamond layer by breaking the porous layer. The semiconductor layer on the diamond layer substrate is then further processed to form a semiconductor device.

The invention relates to a manufacturing method for a monocrystal diamond material, especially to a two-dimensional expansion method for CVD monocrystal diamond. The two-dimensional expansion method is characterized by comprising the following steps: a, placing a seed crystal of monocrystal diamond into a substrate support with a hole in the center so as to allow the seed crystal of monocrystal diamond to be exposed, wherein the substrate support is made of metal molybdenum; b, putting the substrate support with the seed crystal of monocrystal diamond into a deposition chamber and carrying out vacuum-pumping on the deposition chamber; c, generating plasma by using a microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition method, i.e., introducing hydrogen and methane into the deposition chamber, adjusting gas flow, microwave power and air pressure and allowing gas in the deposition chamber to absorb microwave energy and excite and generate plasma, thereby allowing monocrystal diamond to grow on a top surface and four side surfaces at the same time and realizing two-dimensional expansion of monocrystal diamond; and d, carrying out peeling so as to obtain large-size monocrystal diamond. The method realizes two-dimensional growth of monocrystal diamond on a monocrystal diamond substrate via the microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition method, so the size of monocrystal diamond is enlarged.

The invention discloses a diamond-base double-layer insulated gate dielectric field effect transistor (FET) and a preparation method thereof. The FET comprises a diamond substrate, a monocrystalline diamond epitaxial film, a conductive channel, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a first insulated gate dielectric layer, a second insulated gate dielectric layer, and a gate electrode. The diamond substrate is equipped with a layer of amonocrystalline diamond epitaxial film. The monocrystalline diamond epitaxial film is provided with the source electrode and the drain electrode. The conductive channel is formed in the monocrystalline diamond epitaxial film between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The first insulated gate dielectric layer covers the conductive channel between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a part of the source electrode and the drain electrode. The second insulated gate dielectric layer is arranged on the first insulated gate dielectric layer. The gate electrode is arranged on the second insulated gate dielectric layer. The double-layer insulated gate dielectric structure effectively improves the DC and microwave characteristics of the FET.

The present invention provides a manufacturing method for a large-scale diamond substrate and a substrate produced by the method suitable for semiconductor lithography processing and large-scale optical parts, semiconductor materials, thermal-release substrate, semiconductor wafer processing, and back-feed devices, and others. The manufacturing method for a diamond substrate of the present invention comprises: the mounting step of preparing a substrate having a main face comprising a first region which is a concave and having a second region which surrounds the first region, and mounting, on the first region, a single crystalline diamond seed substrate having a plate thickness thicker than the concave depth of the first region; a connecting step of forming a CVD diamond layer from the single crystalline diamond seed substrate using a chemical vapor deposition, and mutually connecting by forming a CVD diamond layer on the second region at the same time; and a polishing step of polishing to substantially flatten both the CVD diamond layers on the single crystalline diamond seed substrate and on the second region by mechanically polishing.

In a method of forming a diamond film, substrate, or window, a silicon substrate is provided and the diamond film, substrate, or window is CVD grown on a surface of the silicon substrate. The grown diamond film, substrate, or window has an aspect ratio ≧100, wherein the aspect ratio is a ratio of a largest dimension of the diamond film, substrate or window divided by a thickness of the diamond film. The silicon substrate can optionally be removed or separated from the grown diamond film, substrate, or window.