Diamond Electronics
Diamond is one of the most promising materials for extreme performance electronic applications, such as high power, high temperature, and high frequency devices. Diamond has excellent mechanical, thermal, electrical and chemical properties. It is the hardest known material and it has the highest electrical breakdown field, the highest room temperature thermal conductivity and the widest electromagnetic radiation transparency range of any material, as well as a wide bandgap and high carrier mobilities. Recent advances in the synthesis of device-quality, single crystal diamond by Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) have opened up the possibility to make efficient diamond-based electronic devices.
We focus our research on investigating electronic properties of diamond and to make diamond devices such as diamond diodes and field-effect transistors for high voltages or switching frequencies. Diodes and switches are key components in power electronic systems, which cover a wide range of applications, from power supplies to power distribution and transmission. High frequency devices have many applications within information technology and microwave systems
Radiation effects on power devices
Power devices are sensitive to neutrons created in cosmic radiation, and this leads to fatal hardware failure. At TSL, commercial testing of such components, as well as fundamental physics research on the nuclear reactions ultimately causing these effects, are undertaken.
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