At Rice University, a research lab's signature keepsake has helped perfect a method for growing patterned diamond surfaces that could help decrease operating temperatures in electronics by 23 degrees ...

What started as a fun experiment to create a decorative diamond “owl” for distinguished ...

“Top-down” diamond patterning methods, such as reactive ion etching, are difficult given the material’s chemical inertness. While “bottom-up” approaches avoid the need for etching, they have ...

Researchers discovered that instead of high-temperature annealing, growing an extra epilayer of diamond atop the substrate after ion implantation is enough to turn the damaged layer graphite-like.