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So I was looking online at a company called Apollo diamond...they have a method for making diamond called chemical vapor deposition. Essentially, it is a method where a seed diamond is placed in a carbon gas and layer upon layer of carbon atoms are deposited on the seed and the diamond grows accordingly.
Currently the semiconductor industry uses silicon as its medium of choice...but diamond is a better semiconductor. Given the high melting temperature of diamond, as opposed to silicon, clearly CPU's would no longer be constrained at running around 4Ghz...and with multiple cores, we are talking about computing power increases that are almost unimaginable.
Does anyone know of any applications in physics that such a semiconductor would be advantageous over current designs? I am thinking high temp environments...but surely there are other applications?
Currently the semiconductor industry uses silicon as its medium of choice...but diamond is a better semiconductor. Given the high melting temperature of diamond, as opposed to silicon, clearly CPU's would no longer be constrained at running around 4Ghz...and with multiple cores, we are talking about computing power increases that are almost unimaginable.
Does anyone know of any applications in physics that such a semiconductor would be advantageous over current designs? I am thinking high temp environments...but surely there are other applications?