Due to its unique properties diamond is a material that enables applications in challenging environments. Recent development in the areas of high power electronics, heat spreaders, MEMs, room temperature quantum applications, tissue engineering and catalysis at extreme potentials are among the most promising. This was fueled by achievements such as major improvements in single crystalline diamond homo- and hetero-epitaxial growths following demand for high quality single crystalline diamond films with large and smooth (opto-electronics, waveguides), defect free surfaces, which can be bonded to III-V-materials and 3D-device architectures for power electronics. Selective doping enables the development of high quality electronic components made out of diamond such as vertical and lateral devices, Schottky junctions, pin-diodes and FETs. In addition, diamond based electron emitters for the generation of solvated electrons in buffer solutions are currently being developed to reduce CO₂ or N₂ into fuels, chemical building blocks or ammonia, as a means to cope with greenhouse gas emissions and the increasing demand for fuels and fertilizers. Further, the application of lattice defects such as NV, GeV and SnV for magnetometry gains increasing momentum for the generation of new devices related to navigation, local current sensing, geology, MRI and many more. Hybrid electronic systems that combine diamond’s excellent thermal properties with materials such as GaN based MMICs have been demonstrated. Beyond monocrystalline diamond, applications of functionalized nanodiamonds as biomarkers and for drug delivery, cancer diagnosis and therapy as well as in tissue engineering and catalysis. Diamond coatings are biocompatible and can be functionalized for in-vivo applications ranging from tissue engineering to neuron interfaces and stimulants. This symposium will bring together researchers from academia and industry, to discuss and introduce the perspectives and possibilities of diamond and diamond hybrid materials development as well as diamond hetero-junctions to stimulate new applications, new ideas and collaborations in the science communities ranging from biology, quantum technology to electronic applications all over the world.

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