AÑO
2023
CATEGORÍA
Hogar
OBJETIVOS
Energía asequible y no contaminante, Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico, Industria, innovación e infraestructura, Producción y consumo responsables, Acción por el clima
PAL. CLAVE
man-made diamonds, zero emissions, carbon neutral, semiwafer, Ethical production
PAÍS
United States of America
CRÉDITOS
Diamond Foundry
LINK
https://diamondfoundry.com
Diamond Foundry Sustainable Diamond
A carbon-neutral diamond made from crystallised greenhouse gases for jewellery and semiconductors.
How does it work?
These ethical diamonds are created in a plasma reactor and are atomically identical to mined diamonds. The process has zero emissions. The souce gases (such as the greenhouse gas methane) are atomised into carbon, and other gases and then rained onto a diamond surface which provides the template for the structure in which the diamond is formed. Only these man-made diamonds survive the plasma. The process is entirely powered by renewable technology. Diamond foundry buys atmospherically exacted greenhouse gases to achieve their goal that goes beyond being carbon neutral.
The diamonds are used for two main purposes. The first is creating ethical, sustainable jewellery. The second is semiconductors, more specifically, bi-wafers. These semiconductors use a wafer-thin layer of crystal than can replace existing wafers and disspipate hotspots and eliminate heat build up. This increases the efficiency of the chips and means that they can work at much higher frequencies.
Why is it needed?
These man-made diamonds are needed because they eliminate the need for mining, there is no involvement with cartels and the process has zero emissions. There are lots of uses for the more efficient semi wafers; the Cloud, AI computing, 5G and 6G communications and electric car electronics. Moore's Law predicts that chip performance should double every two years but this has begun to falter because of the heat buildup in the chips. This bi-layer technology transcends Moore's Law.
The bi-wafer is two wafers in one, bonded together atomically: a thin layer of semiconductor material; and a semiconductor-grade single-crystal diamond wafer that allows the heat to dissipate.
How does it improve life?
The diamonds themselves are completely ethical, there are no cartels, no mining, no emissions, no conflict funding, no land displacement, no wildlife displacement, no animals harmed, no ground water polluted and no local communitites displaced. Then, their uses in technology (eg in semiwafers) have implications for the development of electric cars, 5G and 6G communications and AI computing.