The next-generation electronics start-up DIAMFAB has announced that it will switch to a new dual business model strategy. DIAMFAB develops high-value-added diamond semiconductor wafer technology. This new strategy calls for DIAMFAB to market its technology both directly and through alliances and strategic partnerships focused on specific applications.

With a disruptive approach and special expertise, this new strategy will allow DIAMFAB to solidify and advance its position as a top provider of diamond semiconductor technology, opening up vast new market opportunities and assisting in the solution of pressing environmental and financial issues. The goal of the strategy is to create a co-developed, scalable go-to-market model using a combination of internal resources and a wider network of partners.

DIAMFAB has already begun to collaborate with partners on the design and manufacture of high-performance devices such as diodes, transistors, capacitors, quantum sensors, and high-energy detectors. The first market for the company is capacitors for electrical vehicles, where the advantages of diamond semiconductors over traditional capacitor technologies show tremendous potential for improving compactness and performance over the lifetime of a vehicle.

Due to its superior electrical properties and ability to operate in harsh environments, diamond has the potential to be the ultimate semiconductor (high temperature and radiation). DIAMFAB’s patented approach to growing synthetic diamond material with thicknesses ranging from a few nanometers to tens of micrometers is unrivaled in the industry. Diamond wafers manufactured by DIAMFAB can be used in the insulator, semiconductor, metallic, and superconductive conduction applications. DIAMFAB wafers could enable the fabrication of 80% lighter and more compact power converters in automotive applications. In power grid applications, DIAMFAB wafers could handle higher voltages more easily and reduce energy losses by a factor of ten when compared to silicon.