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Dr. Awadesh Kumar Mallik is a ceramic engineer from the University of Calcutta who chose to become a diamond researcher. He started growing diamonds in the laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore during his master thesis project for the development of vacuum tribology coatings for the Indian Space Research Organisation. He continued his journey of making diamond components for high-power electron tubes at

the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute (CSIR-CGCRI), as part of a national mission for the international fusion energy International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) program. Dr. Mallik has also developed laser cutting and polishing technologies for as-grown diamond material over large areas for industrial collaboration. His current research focus is using diamonds for the thermal management of power electronics. He obtained a Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, India, and was an FWO postdoctoral research fellow at Hasselt University, Belgium. He has published forty peer-reviewed articles and presented many papers at international conferences.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

in Diamond

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

of Metallic Sheets

*and Yohei Suzuki*

*by Awadesh Kumar Mallik*

**Preface XI**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Opto-Electronics **21**

**Chapter 2 23**

Electrical **45**

**Chapter 3 47**

Mechanical **61**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 89**

Laser Treatment CVD Diamond Coated Punch for Ultra-Fine Piercing

*by Tatsuhiko Aizawa,Tadahiko Inonara,Tomoaki Yoshino, Tomomi Shiratori* 

Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) Coatings for Automobile Applications *by Funsho Olaitan Kolawole, Shola Kolade Kolawole, Luis Bernardo Varela, Adebayo Felix Owa, Marco Antonio Ramirez and André Paulo Tschiptschin*

Introductory Chapter: Engineering Applications of Diamond

Novel Magnetic-Sensing Modalities with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers

*by Huijie Zheng, Arne Wickenbrock, Georgios Chatzidrosos, Lykourgos Bougas, Nathan Leefer, Samer Afach, Andrey Jarmola, Victor M. Acosta, Jingyan Xu, Geoffrey Z. Iwata,Till Lenz, Zhiyin Sun, Chen Zhang, Takeshi Ohshima, Hitoshi Sumiya, Kazuo Nakamura,* 

*Junichi Isoya, Jörg Wrachtrup and Dmitry Budker*

*by Vadali Venkata Satya Siva Srikanth*

Unique Surface Modifications on Diamond Thin Films

## Contents


*Adebayo Felix Owa, Marco Antonio Ramirez and André Paulo Tschiptschin*

Preface

Diamond offers many advantages over other wide-bandgap materials such as silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN), and others. Noticeable among these advantages is the method of fabrication. Fabrication costs of diamond-based electronics have decreased due to the advent of chemical vapour deposition (CVD). Other advantages include large Young's modulus and hardness values, which makes diamond ideal for protective coating applications. Diamond tools are used extensively in mining and construction engineering. Moreover, due to the extremely low coefficient of friction, diamond is used as a solid lubricant in outer space. Its superior mechanical properties, as well as high thermal conductivity, make diamond the best candidate for thermal management in extreme environments like outer space. Diamond is also radiation-hard; therefore, it is used as a high-energy particle

The transparency of diamond across the wide electromagnetic wave spectrum makes it a material of choice for high-power laser windows, microwave power transmission gyrotron windows, and more. It is electrically insulating with high breakdown voltage and low dielectric constant. Doping diamond with boron or phosphorous makes it a useful semiconductor. Its chemical stability also makes it ideal for highly aggressive environments. The most striking property of diamondbased electrochemical sensors is diamond's high overpotential for hydrogen and oxygen evolution. There are also reports of capturing CO2 greenhouse gas with diamond material by using the artificial photosynthesis principle. Due to its inertness in the biological environment, there have been attempts at using diamonds in the fabrication of neurons and other biological sensors. Nanocrystalline diamond's field electron emission properties allow the material to be used in cold cathode tube engineering applications. It has the highest sound velocity and thus it is the material

In recent years, much effort has been made in exploiting diamond's different

vacancy defect centers for quantum applications. This book examines the properties

**Awadesh Mallik** IMO-IMOMEC, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

detector in extreme physics experiments like fusion and fission.

of choice for surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices.

of diamond and its numerous potential applications.
