CVD diamond detectors of ionising radiation

Diamond is a resilient material with excellent physical properties for radiation experiments. As such it is an interesting material for fabrication of high performance solid-state particle detectors operating at room temperature. Its high radiation hardness makes it an ideal material in high radiation environment. High breakdown voltage allows application of high electric field and so speeds up the charge collection. Diamond manufacturing technology (CVD) allows low cost diamond production in large sheets and with higher purity than nature diamonds. There have been already produced CVD diamond detectors with coaxial geometry, planar, micro-strip and pixel detectors. Also at Slovak University of Technology have been already produced first CVD diamond layers. (authors)