Self-Rotating Ground Single Crystal Diamond

Sub-nm Surface in 10 min

High-speed self-rotating grinding with a highly self-sharpening diamond wheel reduces the roughness of a 7×7 mm single crystal diamond to Ra 0.523 nm in 10 minutes, achieving a material removal rate of 32.4 μm/h.

Yongkang, Xin · Lu, Jing · Li, Chen · Luo, Qiufa · Zesen, Li · Congming, Ke · Xu, Xipeng

Diamond and Related Materials 2024

Specifications

roughness Ra nm

{'zh': '7', 'en': '7'} mm

材料去除率

{'zh': '32.4', 'en': ''} μm/h

Advantages

Processing direction influences material removal mechanism

Method to distinguish (100) crystal plane orientation