Handbook of Industrial Diamonds: Volume 2, Diamond Films and Carbon Coatings

About James Sung

James Sung received his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. Since then until 1984 he was responsible for the high-pressure technology of manufacturing various types of industrial diamonds at General Electric (then the worlds largest diamond maker). Subsequently he set up Diamond Technology Center for Norton (then the worlds largest diamond user) which fostered Norton Diamond Film (the worlds largest CVD diamond maker around 2000). Dr. Sung transferred diamond technology to startup Iljin Diamond (Korea) in 1986 which later became Asias largest diamond maker and to Zhongnan Diamond and Huanghe Whirlwind (China) in 2003 which became and are still the worlds largest diamond makers.In 1994 Dr. Sung established a diamond-brazing technology for the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan. In 1997 he invented diamond grid technology and made Kinik Company the global leader of diamond pad conditioners an indispensible consumable for the manufacture of integrated circuits worldwide. In 2011 he transferred diamond-like carbon (DLC) technology to Right Diamond and made the worlds first DLC-cooled LED which was later manufactured by Formosa Group (the largest company in Taiwan). Dr. Sung applied for over 1000 patents and has published over 100 papers and books. He has licensed technologies to 3M Abrasive Technology Tomei Diamond EHWA Ritek Group and several other companies.