US Patent Issued to II-VI DELAWARE on Jan. 28 for "Optically-finished thin diamond substrate or window of high aspect ratio and a method of production thereof" (California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,306, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Optically-finished thin diamond substrate or window of high aspect ratio and a method of production thereof" was invented by Wen-Qing Xu (Medfield, Mass.), Thomas E. Anderson (Morristown, N.J.), Giovanni Barbarossa (Saratoga, Calif.), Elgin E. Eissler (Renfrew, Pa.), Chao Liu (Butler, Pa.) and Charles D. Tanner (Saxonburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of forming a diamond film, substrate, or window, a substrate is provided and the diamond film, substrate, or window is CVD grown on a surface of the substrate. The grown diamond film, subs...