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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2015
Element Six Technologies Limited, Didcot, Oxfordshire, GB;
Andrew Michael Bennett, Didcot, GB;
Laura Anne Hutton, Didcot, GB;
Geoffrey Alan Scarsbrook, Didcot, GB;
Element Six Technologies Limited, Didcot, Oxfordshire, GB;
Abstract
A method of fabricating plates of super-hard material and cutting techniques suitable for such a method. A method of fabricating a plate () of super-hard material, the method comprising: •providing a substrate () have a lateral dimension of at least 40 mm; •growing a layer of super-hard material on the substrate () using a chemical vapor deposition process; and •slicing one or more plates () of super-hard material from the substrate using a collimated cutting beam (), the or each plate of super-hard material () having a lateral dimension of at least 40 mm, wherein the collimated cutting beam () is collimated with a half angle divergence of no more than 5 degrees.