Marilyn Monroe once famously cooed that "diamonds are a girl's best friend." It's a strategy the diamond industry is hoping will turn around lackluster sales numbers. Diamond producers and retailers ...

A research team has fabricated a gallium nitride (GaN) transistor using diamond, which of all natural materials has the highest thermal conductivity on earth, as a substrate, and they succeeded in ...

New technologies aim to produce high-purity synthetic crystals that become excellent semiconductors when doped with impurities as electron donors or acceptors of other elements. Researchers have now ...

Kyoto, Japan -- Besides being "a girl's best friend," diamonds have broad industrial applications, such as in solid-state electronics. New technologies aim to produce high-purity synthetic crystals ...