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Characterization of High Pressure-High Temperature Treated Gem Diamonds  

Song, Oh-Sung (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Seoul)
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Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering / v.39, no.5, 2006 , pp. 229-234 More about this Journal
Abstract
Diamonds have been widely employed as polishing media for precise machining and noble substrates for microelectronics. The recent development of the split sphere press has led to the enhancement of low quality natural diamonds. Synthesized and treated diamonds are sometimes traded deceptively as high quality natural diamonds because it is hard to distinguish among these diamonds with conventional gemological characterization method. Therefore, we need to develop a new identification method that is non-destructive, fast, and inexpensive. We proposed using new methods of UV fluorescence and X-ray Lang topography for checking the local HPHT stress field to distinguish these diamonds from natural ones. We observe unique differences in the local stress field images in treated diamonds using UV fluorescence and Lang topography characterization. Our result implies that our proposed methods may be appropriate for identification of the treated diamonds.
Keywords
Natural diamond; Treated diamond; Lang topography; UV fluorescence;
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