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FORNY20-FORNY2020

A new MPCVD technology for diamond coating

Alternative title: En ny MPCVD teknologi for diamant-belegg

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Manufacturing companies worldwide are increasingly using more advanced materials that are lighter, stronger, and have longer lifetime than their predecessors. However, the tools to process these materials are not sufficient, resulting in high costs on replacement of tools and components. Diamond coating is increasingly used to mitigate these issues, but the current method for diamond coating used today are impure, takes long time to grow, and have lower adhesion compared to the novel diamond reactor design that is proposed in this project. The novel large area micro-plasma chemical vapor deposition (LA MPCVD) is developed by UiB and uses a novel technology that makes it possible to scale up the diamond coating process to cover large substances, higher quality, with higher growth rate compared to competing technology. The solution proposed in this project is a radical innovation within industrial lab diamond growth. The market size for diamond and diamond-like coating is estimated to be 1.7 billion USD worldwide. In this project, demanding customers like KDS and FMC, together with tool provider Sandvik Teeness are deeply involved to make sure that the novel reactor gets a strong validation for its coating services that can lead a way in to this large market. The project applies for 6.6 MNOK to build and verify two prototypes of the LA MPCVD reactor, do several coating tests with tools and components for KDS and FMC, hereby opening up a market for cutting tools and mechanical components, validate business model and establish and build up a start-up utilizing the technology. Industrial diamonds can reduce waste, increase lifespan, and enable superior processing of the most advanced materials.

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FORNY20-FORNY2020