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Links to Groups Studying or working with Labgrown Diamond (and Related Materials)

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Diamond Groups in the UK

Arkenlight - company commercialising beta- and gammavoltaic diamond devices, as well as ¹⁴C diamond batteries and thermionic emission solar power generation.
University of Aston (Haitao Ye)
University of Bristol (Paul May, Mike Ashfold, Neil Fox, David Fermin, Martin Kuball)
University of Cambridge (Bill Milne, John Robertson)
University of Cardiff (Oliver Williams)
CNC Coatings, Rochdale - manufacturer of thin film deposition systems (e.g. hot filament and MW CVD), characterisation of surfaces and producing surface coatings for a range of applications.
De Beers Diamond Information Centre - everything you ever wanted to know about diamond gemstones and rings.
Diamond at Work - a marketing initiative launched as an independent trademark for all products containing industrial diamond.
Diamond Geyser Blog - a blog which contains up-to-date summaries of interesting papers, conferences and diamond-related news.
Diamond Microwave Devices - a subsidiary of E6 that is developing novel diamond semiconductor materials and processing technology for the next generation of high-power, high temperature semiconductor devices.
Element Six (formerly De Beers Industrial Diamond Ltd.), manufacturer of synthetic (HPHT diamond and CVD diamond) and natural diamond for industrial applications including optical quality CVD diamond windows. Locations: CVD research site - Global Innovation Centre, Harwell, UK. For HPHT and machine tool applications - Shannon, Ireland. CVD, main manufacturing and Sales and Marketing site - Cuijk, The Netherlands.
E6 CVD diamond e-shop - buy various grades of CVD diamond online.
Evince - company based near Durham that is developing diamond field emission devices.
Euro Superabrasives Ltd - authorised distributor for E6 products, such as abrasive powders and CVD diamond plates, in the UK and 9 other European countries.
University of Glasgow (David Moran) - Nano-Electronic Diamond Devices and Systems (NEDDS) group.
Heart in Diamond - Company which makes HPHT diamond gemstones from human/pet ashes or hair.
Industrial Abrasives Ltd - suppliers of natural and synthetic diamond products to industry, one of which is CVD Diamond 'thickfilm' materials and 'thinfilm' CVD Coated tooling.
Industrial Diamond Review - an international journal for reporting on all the major happenings in the world of industrial diamond and cubic boron nitride.
Kemet - suppliers of diamond slurry, paste and suspensions.
Logitech - precision diamond lapping and polishing machines.
Manchester Metropolitan University (Surface coatings and characterisation research group)
Micron Semiconductor Ltd - manufacturer of CVD diamond sensors and radiation detectors.
Oxford University (John Foord)
The Renishaw Group - manufacturers of laser Raman systems.
University of Strathclyde, Institute of Photonics, near Glasgow - research into diamond micro-optics, diamond electronics, diamond intracavity heatspreaders for disk lasers and microlasers, diamond Raman lasers and diamond etching.
Superabrasive Techniques Ltd - suppliers of industrial diamond representing companies such as Sumitomo and Iljin Diamond Co. in the UK
University of Surrey - Large Area Electronics Group, mainly DLC (Ravi Silva)
University College London and the London Centre for Nanotechnology (Richard Jackman)
Warwick University (Mark Newton, Julie Macpherson)
Yorkshire Bioscience - suppliers of nanodiamond (3 nm diameter) made by explosion synethesis, for physical, chemical, and biochemical applications.
Unidiamond - suppliers of diamond abrasive powders.

Europe

A2C (Mérignac, France) - provides CVD diamond cutting tools.
Academy of Sciences Czech Republic - Dept of Functional Materials for Nanosystems and Biointerfaces, Prague, Czech Republic.
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton - based at ENS Cachan and University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France. The group studies physics of individual spins in diamond and exploring their applications to nanoscale sensing and imaging, quantum information processing as well as bio-imaging.
Aixtron - Manufacturers of Plasma CVD equipment for diamond deposition (ellipsoid or egg reactors)
Almax Industries (Diksmuide, Belgium) - a company that can cut, polish and shape a customer's CVD diamond samples. They also supply diamoind anvils and windows.
University of Antwerp, Plasmant group, Belgium.
Audiatec (Augsburg Diamond Technology GmbH), Augsburg, Germany - suppliers of bespoke single-crystal diamond substrates.
University of Augsburg, Germany (Matthias Schreck).
University of Aveiro, Portugal
Bettonville Industrial, Wijnegem, Belgium - suppliers of laser systems to mark, kerf, engrave, saw, shape and cut natural and synthetic diamonds.
BOLD - a company in Belgium that makes Blind-to-Optical-Light Detectors made from diamond.
Carbodeon - a company in Finland that supplies nanoparticles of diamond and other powders.
CEA-LIST, Saclay, France. Diamond Sensors Laboratory - Jean-Charles Arnault's group - diamond radiation detectors and devices, plus biomedical implants.
CCR Technology GmbH - manufacturers of plasma deposition and etching equipment, including DLC and CNTs.
CemeCon AG (Wurselen, Germany) - job coating production for diamond tools.
Ceratonia (Eltmann, Germany) - dealer of natural and synthetic diamond grit and powders, PCD, CVD-thickfilm and finishing films. They also offer a express laser cutting service for CVD-thickfilm products.
Cividec Instrumentation GmbH (Austria) - CVD diamond radiation detectors.
Custodiam (Brussels, Belgium) - suppliers of industrial diamond and CBN for advanced applications in the glass, mechanics, semiconductor, construction, oil, mining and stone sectors.
CNRS - LSPM (Laboratoire des Sciences des Procédés et des Matériaux) (University of Paris) - Alix Gicquel and Jocelyn Achard's group. The group specialises in CVD diamond growth and also plasma spectroscopy studies.
Cyrannus (Innovative plasma systems IPLAS GmbH) - MW CVD deposition reactor manufacturers, Troisdorf, Germany.
D-Coat GmbH (Erkelenz, Germany) - provides CVD diamond coated cutting tools, etc.
DiaCCon - a company based in Erlangen, Germany, specialising in diamond coating and diamond coating services.
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands (Ivan Buijnsters'group). The group specialises in boron-doped diamond electrodes for electrochemical sensing, water treatment, and energy storage.
Diamaze (Ulm, Germany) - CVD diamond blades and micro-parts.
DiamFab (Grenoble, France) - bespoke CVD diamond layers and substrates for power devices
Diamond Materials - a spin-off company from F-IAF (below) specializing in the preparation and processing of high purity CVD diamond disks
Diamond Product Solutions, Merselo, Netherlands - deposition of diamond coatings, diamond coatings, designing new applications for diamond, and adding value to diamond coatings by processing them to higher flatness, smoothness, etc.
EID Industrial Diamonds - suppliers of diamond abrasives and microdiamond powders.
Engis Corporation (Henley) - produces abrasive diamond powders for cutting and grinding.
Fraunhofer Institut Angewante Festkörperphysik, Freiburg, Germany (Christoph Nebel's group).
Fraunhofer-Institut für Schicht- und Oberflächentechnik IST, Braunschweig, Germany (Lothar Schäfer's group) - CVD diamond thin films for machine elements, tools and electrodes.
Gdansk University of Technology (Poland) - Nanodiamond team - sensing and degradation processes using BDD and sensing using diamond coated optical fibres.
GFD (Ulm, Germany) - manufacturers of CVD diamond scalpels.
Hasselt University, Institute for Materials Research, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
HiQuTe, France. Suppliers of high-quality diamond plates for various high ech applications.
MB Optics BV (Velp NB, The Netherlands) - manufacturer of high-precision optical components made from lab-grown single-crystal and polycrystalline diamond.
MetLab (University of Patras, Greece) - CVD of metals, ceramics and SiC.
Microdiamant (Switzerland) suppliers of micro and nanodiamond powders.
Mintres (Cuijk, the Netherlands) – manufacturer of diamond and other ceramic based components for the electronics and medical markets; diamond anvils; contract RF sputter coatings and lasering for diamond.
Muegge Germany-based manufacturer of RF and MW power supplies for CVD reactors.
Nano6 - European company that manufactures pulsed-Microwave plasma systems for low temperature (<450°C) diamond deposition. The reactors are distributed through Seki.
Nanodiamond.com - worldwide sellers of pure ultradispersive detonation diamond, located in Switzerland.
NÉEL Institut - Wide band-gap electronics group (Etienne Gheeraert, Etienne Bustarret, Julien Pernot)
NeoCoat - worldwide sellers of CVD diamond reactors and material, and bespoke coatings, located in Switzerland.
Orbray - worldwide sellers of CVD diamond plates and components for verious technology applications, located in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Qnami, NV diamond for quantum sensing applications. Also makes bespoke diamond patterning and structures.
Nova Diamant AB - company in Uppsala, Sweden, making CVD diamond coatings on mechanical face-seals, diamond-coated spheres, and some other custom applications.
Physixfactor (Netherlands) develops high tech products based on diamond, such as windows, scalpels, wire dies, etc, as well as laser machining and optimising the lifetime of diamond wear parts.
Plassys (France) suppliers of MW CVD reactors.
Quack group (Q-lab) - based at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ray Techniques, Ltd (Israel) - specializing in production of nanodiamonds (ND) using laser technology, as well as in development of ND applications.
rho-BeSt coating, plc (Austria) - provider of thin film diamond.
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology - Alon Hoffman's group - studying: nucleation and growth of diamond CVD, surface chemistry and properties of diamond, electron emission, and diamond coatings for tribological applications.
The Tribology Centre, Danish Technological Institute.
Uppsala University, The Ångström Diamond Optics Group, (Mikael Karlsson).
Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University, Munich, Germany.
WTCM, Belgium - a private research group active in the field of surface treatment, including the development of diamond CVD coatings on hard metal cutting tools.
Uppsala University, Sweden (Jan Isberg's lab).
University of Würtzburg (Anke Krüger's group)

USA and Canada

Abrasives.net - HPHT diamond for use in cutting, drilling, etc.
Advanced Diamond Solutions Inc. - suppliers of CVD diamond for industrial uses.
Advanced Diamond Technologies - suppliers of UNCD coatings for many diverse applications.
Adamas Gemological Laboratory - diamond gemstone analysis.
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Alameda Applied Sciences, Corp, Ca, USA - studying CVD and natural diamond in fast, high voltage switches, laser beam profilers and fast diamond radiation detectors.
University of Alberta, and the de Beers laboratory of Diamond Research, Alberta, Canada.
Anatech Ltd., Denver, NC, USA - manufacturers of DLC coating equipment, and provide DLC coatings on surfaces including surgical tools, medical implants and racing engine parts.
Applied Diamond (Delaware, US) - produces bespoke CVD diamond coatings, freestanding wafers and substrates for a range of markets and individual research groups.
Argonne National Lab
Arizona State University - Dept of Physics (Robert Nemanich's group)
ASTEX - previous manufacturers of PECVD reactors, now known as MKS (their diamond reactors are now made by Seki Diamond Systems, see below).
ATMI Home Page - ATMI develop advanced semiconductor thin film processes esp. diamond. Supply SiC and SIMOX wafers.
Blue Wave Semiconductor HF CVD Systems - manufacturers of HF CVD reactors, which are distributed by Seki.
University of California, Berkeley - tribology of CVD diamond films
CaratSystems, Inc - manufacturers and suppliers of MW CVD reactors for diamond deposition.
Case Western Reserve University - Heidi Martin and John Angus' group
Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY) - Professor Regel's research group, deposition on confidential substrates for Corning and Kodak, using a sealed chamber CVT method.
Cline Innovations, LLC (Massachusetts, USA) - Combines an offering of refurbished CVD diamond R&D and production-scale equipment with specialized services for the CVD diamond and related materials community. [Keywords: MPCVD, HFCVD, ECR, reactor subsystems, Astex microwave generators & waveguide goods, IPX RF heater repairs, pyrometers, diamond polishing].
CompuVac Systems, Inc. - manufacturer of optical coaters, specialising in DLC protective layers. Email: compuvac@aol.com
Crystallume - (Santa Clara, CA) suppliers of freestanding diamond and CVD-diamond-coated components.
CVD Diamond Corporation - (Ontario, Canada) suppliers of CVD-diamond-coated end-mills, drills and threadmills.
Diamond CVD - manufacturers of single-crystal and polycrystalline freestanding CVD substrates, based in the British Virgin Islands.
Delaware Diamond Knives - makes precison knives, but is also associated with Applied Diamond (see above).
Diamond Technologies, Inc. - design and production of custom diamond orifices and nozzles for waterjet cutting.
Diamond Foundry - CVD diamond gemstone manufacturer based in San Francisco.
Diamond Tool Coating - supplier of CVD diamond coating for cutting tools and industrial use.
The Diamond Tool Store.
Diamonex - commercial producers of DLC and CVD diamond films.
Drexel University, Nano Materials Group (Prof Yuri Gogotsi)
Engis Corporation (Wheeling, Illinois) - produces abrasive diamond powders for cutting and grinding.
Eterneva Austin, Texas, USA, - manufacturers of diamond gems and keepsakes from cremated ashes of humans and/or pets.
EvolveDiamonds (near Boston, MA) - offer diamond characterization services, contract manufacturing, CVD consulting, and CVD reactor services.
Gemesis - produces single crystal diamonds for consumer gem markets.
IMAPS - The International Microelectronics and Packaging Society.
HPHT Diamonds - Educational resource about cultured, synthetic, created, man-made, and lab-grown diamonds. Lots of info about growth and treatment.
II-VI Inc. - Supplies semiconductor materials and optics, including CVD diamond for IR windows.
Lifegem - manufacturers of HPHT diamond souvenirs from cremated people and pets.
Master Blade Diamond Tools, Florida, USA - Diamond tools for industrial cutting, grinding and drilling.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA - Greg Swain's group studying electrochemistry of diamond.
Michigan State University-Fraunhofer Center for coatings and Diamond Technology, East Lansing, MI, USA - CVD diamond coatings and genstones.
Micro Star Technologies, Texas, USA - manufacturers of diamond blades, AFM tips, and thin bending filaments.
Micromatter, Vancouver, Canada - custom diamond and DLC films.
Microwave Enterprises, Morrisville, NC, USA - suppliers of CVD reactors and diamond substrates.
Nano-Proprietary, Inc. - manufacture and research into diamond-based field emission devices and flat panel displays.
University of Puerto Rico, Department of Physics, USA. Contact: brad@adam.uprr.pr, gmorell@rrpac.upr.clu.edu, aa973600@rrpac.upr.clu.edu.
Scientific Concrete Polishing, Wapakoneta, Ohio - manufacture and design new types of diamond tooling for the concrete polishing industry.
SCIO Diamond - single crystal diamond gemstones made by CVD.
Seki Diamond Systems - Manufacturer of microwave plasma CVD systems for diamond research and industry; distributor of Blue Wave Hot Filament diamond CVD systems for R&D and NeoCoat for production, W&L for low temperature Linear Antenna MW CVD Systems and EDP for single crystal substrate for seeds, R&D and tool applications.
SP3 Diamond Technologies - Thin and thick film diamond for electronics, electrodes, heat spreading, wear applications, toll coating services and manufacturer of industrial Hot Filament CVD systems.
Sustainable Methods Institute - studying CVD Diamond for filling porous structures.
Rhombic Corporation
Saint Diamonds - (Atlanta, GA) company that turns cremation ashes into diamonds
University of Saskatchewan, Plasma Physics Lab, Saskatoon, Canada.
Sinmat, Gainesville, FL, USA - diamond substrate polishing services.
Gas Dynamics group, Stanford University
Stanford University's MTMC Laboratory -Thermal management of semiconductor packages using novel micromachined structures. Work on CVD diamond and SOI structures.
Vista Engineering, spin of company from UoA specialising in diamond-coated cutting tools.
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Bob Hamers)

Japan

Daicel Corporation - suppliers of detonation nanodiamond.
EDP Corporation, founded by Naoji Fujimori supplying large area single-crystal diamond films (the worldwide distributor is Seki Diamond Systems).
Kobe Steel, Electronics Research Lab, Kobe, Japan - oriented CVD diamond, devices, doping, sensors, and many other applications of CVD diamond.
National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan.
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. New name for NIRIM.
Osaka University (T. Kobayashi Laboratory)
Power Diamond Systems, Tokyo, Japan. Spin-off from Kawarada's group at Waseda University specialising in diamond power electroic devices.
Seki Diamond Systems - (Cornes Technologies Ltd, Tokyo, Japan) Manufacturers of MW CVD Systems.

China

3bdiamond - suppliers of CVD diamond films and freestanding grit, based in Hunan, China.
Accurate Tooling Co.,Ltd., Luoyang,China. Suppliers of HPHT diamond pieces and tools.
Beijing Tiandi Orient Diamond Tech. Co., Ltd. - research and manufacture CVD diamond films and its products.<.li>
Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films, City University of Hong Kong.
Gansu LingYun Nano-Material Co., Ltd., Lanzhou, China - suppliers of detonation nanodiamond.
ZZ Domore Superabrasives, Zhengzhou, Henan, China - suppliers of abrasives, including industrial diamond and CVD diamond.
Hebei Academy of Sciences (Plasma Laboratory), Shijiazhuang, China, specialists in research and development of CVD diamond film for mechanical, heat management or optical applications.
Huifeng diamond (Zhengzhou, Chinba) - suppliers of diamond powders and grit.
Kodia Company, Ltd, Changsha, China - suppliers of industrial diamond and c-BN powders
Leadar Superabrasives Co., Ltd, Hunan, China - manufacturer and exporter of synthetic diamond grits, diamond micron powder and other diamond products.
Crysdiam Technology, Ningbo, China - manufacturer and exporter of synthetic diamond grits, CVD diamond substrates, diamond micron powder and other diamond products.
Pam-Xiamen, Xiamen, China - manufacturer and exporter of synthetic diamond wafers.
SyntheticDiamond.com.cn (Glitter Diamonds), China. Suppliers of HPHT Diamond for tools and gems. Also CVD diamond substrates.
Tianjing Jiahe Diamond Tool Co., Ltd - producers of plated diamond tools, CBN tools and other products for polishing, cutting and grinding glass, crystal, stone and gemstones, etc.
Tianjin Baolixn Superhard Materials Co., Ltd - manufacturer of polycrystalline CVD diamond film products.
Wanlong Diamond Tools - producers of diamond saw blades, diamond cutters, and vacuum-brazed diamond tools for research.
WEC Superabrasives - Taiwan-based company that sells MW CVD reactors, CVD diamond gems and seeds, polishing services, and a raman system.

Korea

Iljin Diamond Co., Ltd, Korea - manufacturers of CVD diamond, synthetic diamond, cBN, polycrystalline products (PCD/PCBN), and hard metal (WC) for micro-drill and rolls.
In Sung Diamond Co, Ltd., Incheon, Korea, manufacturers of industrial diamond tool products.
Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Division of Ceramics, Seoul, Korea.
Seoul National University, Thin film and Microstructure Lab, Korea - growth mechanisms of CVD Diamond and carbon nanotube; charged cluster theory.

Ukraine

ALIT (Ukraine) - manufacturers of nanodiamond particles and grit.
Institute for Superhard Materials ., Kiev, Ukraine - manufacturer of synthetic diamond powders.

Rest of the World

2a technologies based in Singapore, suppliers of single-crystal diamond substrates and gemstones.
The Diamond Group at the Associate Laboratory of Sensors and Materials of the Center for Special Technologies CTE/INPE, Brazil.
Diamond Elements - Indian company selling CVD single crystal gemstones and substrtaes at cheap prices.
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India - working on electrical and tribological properties of diamond films, also carbon nanotubes, nanodiamond and single crystal diamond.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Material Science Research Centre (MSRC), CVD Diamond Group, India – Development of diamond coatings for industrial applications (Prof. M.S.R. Rao's group).
InCent LGD (India Centre for Lab-Grown Diamond), IIT Madras, India - Development of lab-grown diamonds for gem, quantum and electronic applications).
Macquarie University, Dept of Physics, Sydney, Australia. Quantum Materials and Applications Lab, working on diamond based research and applications in quantum information and the life sciences. (James Rabeau's group).
University of Melbourne, Microanalytical Research Laboratory, Australia. (Stephen Prawer).
Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication – Melbourne, Australia - provides open access to two MPCVD diamond deposition suites, for pure diamond, boron-doped, and nitrogen vacancy. The Centre also provides equipment training and performs 'fee for service' work.
Nanofilm Technologies International, PTE Ltd, Singapore - manufacturers of filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition systems for DLC and ta-C films.
North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India - CVD diamond growth and characterisation
Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India - diamond coating carbide inserts
National University of Singapore - KP Loh's group
Novel Laser Technologies, Melbourne, Australia - ambient temperature diamond deposition on all substrates. Email: admin@novlastechs.com
Dept of Physics, University of Pune, India
Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (Metals Technology Group), contact Inderjeet Kaur Singhkaur
State University of the Fluminense North (UENF), Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - synthesis of diamonds with new types of catalysts, cubic boron nitride and other hard materials. Email: lucia@uenf.br
Soni Tools., Ltd, Mumbai, India - manufacturer and exporter of HPHT and CVD diamond plates, diamond and other diamond products.
Sonani Jewels Pvt Ltd - diamond producer in India.
STPL - based in Gujarat, India. Manufacturers of machines to process CVD diamond into shapes, plates, gemstones, etc.
Supreme Green Diamonds Pvt Ltd - Manufacturers of bespoke Single Crystal and Polycrystalline CVD Diamonds based in India. Pure, doped and any customised diamond needs.
UNESP, Brazil, (Laboratory of Research and Development of Devices with CVD Diamond and New Materials).

Links about Diamond Gemstones

Pictures of famous gemstones
American Museum of Natural History, Diamond Exhibition 1998 - lots of facts about diamond gems