Companies partner on MEMS communication devices

Aug. 18, 2006 — Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc. announced that the company and its collaborators received a $1.4 million Phase II program award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to advance next-generation broadband communication devices based on Advanced Diamond’s Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD).

The companies say the unique properties of UNCD enable MEMS to directly integrate with silicon microchips, resulting in faster, more reliable wireless communications systems.

“During Phase I of this project, we discovered that UNCD exhibits the highest known acoustic velocity of any material, which directly translates to higher resonator frequencies and thus device performance,” said Advanced Diamond’s chief technology officer, John Carlisle, in a prepared statement.

Advanced Diamond is partnering with Argonne National Laboratory, which will provide fundamental and applied research on the UNCD technology developed there over the past 14 years, while Innovative Micro Technology will produce the devices. The Prof. R. W. Carpick group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will apply advanced atomic force microscopy techniques to characterize the performance of UNCD-based MEMS devices.

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