Diamond Semiconductor Operates at 81GHz

a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
edited August 2003 in Science & Tech
Pretty neat stuff happening with diamond semiconductors.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) has developed a diamond semiconductor device that operates at 81 GHz frequency, more than twice the speed of earlier devices. The advance promises to make amplification in the millimeter-wave band from 30 to 300 GHz possible for the first time, NTT claimed.
The diamond devices are expected to be in demand to replace with the vacuum tubes that are used in the high frequency, high-power applications such as receivers and transmitters at digital TV broadcasting stations.

The full report:
http://www.eetimes.com/at/hpm/news/OEG20030822S0005

Also, <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html">this is a Wired article</a> that talks about producing diamonds. $5 a karat sound nice?
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