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Laser cutting    

 

Due to the extreme hardness of diamond a mechanical cutting or sawing of the diamond wafers is not possible.
For that reason a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser is applied for cutting them into desired shapes.

 
   

 

   

Watch escape wheel prepared by high-precision laser cutting

 

 
 

   Grinding and Polishing     

 

After deposition, the coarse grained films are ground and polished to the desired thickness. For this purpose a high speed lapping machine capable of treating three samples simultaneously has been developed at Fraunhofer IAF. Diamond wafers with up to 5" in diameter can be polished. 


Rms roughness values in the sub-nanometer range (superpolishing) can be achieved under optimized conditions 

 
   

Surface profile of a polished CVD diamond wafer

 

 
 

Metallization     

 

For the preparation of diamond heat-spreaders the metallization is of central importance. Various metallization schemes consisting of several metal layers have been developed. Each layer acts either as adhesion layer, diffusion barrier, or as surface layer improving the wetting behaviour of the solder. Thick gold layers are used as electrical conductors for high current densities.

 

 
   

 

Metallization patterns prepared by optical lithography

 

 
 

Soldering / Brazing    

 

Soldering and brazing techniques are used e.g. to mount electronic devices on diamond heatspreaders or to prepare diamond-metal joints e.g. for the realization of UHV vacuum windows.

 

 
   

 

UHV diamond window used as optical port
in synchrotron beam lines
.