Apollo Diamond

Apollo Diamond Inc. was a company based in Boston, Massachusetts that was able to produce nearly flawless single crystal diamond wafers and crystals for potential use in the optoelectronics, nanotechnology, and consumer gem markets. The company used chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for the production of their gem-sized synthetic diamond crystals, and obtained several U.S. patents on the process. The company's techniques were able to produce colorless gems, in contrast to previous diamond-making techniques which usually produced colored diamonds.

Apollo Diamond

Industry	Diamond / Manufacturing
Founded	2 May 1990
Defunct	23 May 2006
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts , United States
Key people	Robert Linares Bryant Linares
Products	Synthetic diamonds
Website	http://www.sciodiamond.com/

In 2011, many assets of Apollo Diamond were acquired by Scio Diamond Technology Corporation, which said it would use the technology at its South Carolina facility.

See also

• List of synthetic diamond manufacturers

External linksreat

• SCIO Diamond website
• The New Diamond Age, Wired, September 11, 2003
• Diamonds on Demand, Smithsonian, June, 2008
• US Patents awarded to Apollo Diamond
• USAToday: Nanotechnology's everywhere, May 2005