A team of electrical engineers at Vanderbilt University has replaced silicon with diamonds in semiconductors and found that there are major benefits in performance. See this article for more details.
Robb Hammond is the founder and CEO of AERI, an independent electronic component distributor operating since 1994. He is a founding member and former committee chair of SAE AS6081, the counterfeit-avoidance standard for independent distributors adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense, and a recognized authority on counterfeit detection.
