sp3 Diamond Technologies,
Inc. (sp3), a leading supplier of diamond products, equipment and services,
today announced the ability to ship its Model 655 (single-chamber) or Model
665 (dual-chamber) hot filament CVD diamond reactors with an integrated power
supply that complies with local 380V three-phase electrical systems. The availability
of the lower-voltage power supply (342 to 440 VAC) facilitates the adoption
of CVD diamond in manufacturing by eliminating the need for customers to use
step-down transformers to implement sp3’s diamond deposition systems in
certain countries.
“Given the global nature of manufacturing today, a company’s ability
to offer products that allow direct, local power connections is a critical requirement
for adoption,” said Dwain Aidala, president and COO of sp3 Diamond Technologies,
Inc. “sp3 has worked with a power supply manufacturer to provide integrated
380V in our Models 655 and 665 systems supplementing our existing 480V (396
to 528 VAC) supply and allowing us to now ship systems that can be implemented
virtually anywhere in the world without any customer power adaptations required.
This capability is key to further establishing the viability of CVD diamond
as a material of choice and expanding our customer base for our CVD diamond
deposition systems.”
The new electrical supply targets Asian countries including China, Hong Kong,
Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as European countries
including Italy, Belgium, France, Sweden, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Spain and
the United Kingdom, among others. sp3’s hot filament diamond deposition
reactors are already used in manufacturing of cutting tools. Other key markets
that are rapidly moving towards full commercialization of CVD diamond include
chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pad conditioners, diamond-coated electrodes
for water treatment and diamond interlayers on semiconductor wafers.
sp3 Diamond Technologies provides CVD diamond deposition reactors and diamond-based
solutions for electronics thermal management and enhanced cutting surfaces to
companies worldwide, across a broad spectrum of industries. By supplying wafer-scale
diamond-on-substrate products and services utilizing nano and microcrystalline
diamond morphology, sp3 is expanding the commercial reach of polycrystalline
CVD diamond.
sp3 understands diamond and manufacturing equipment, as well as the cost, reliability
and quality needs of its customers. In addition to running its own CVD diamond
manufacturing facilities, sp3 is unique in selling its hot filament CVD reactors
so customers can manufacture their own CVD diamond in-house.
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, sp3 Diamond
Technologies is a subsidiary of sp3 Inc., a privately-owned, full service provider
of products and services relating to thin-film diamond deposition and thick-film
polycrystalline diamond materials. sp3 Inc. and its operational units have deposited
diamond on over one and a half million cutting tools and completed more than
18,000 successful diamond deposition runs.