This invention discloses a 6-inch mosaic-jointed single-
crystal diamond wafer and its preparation method. In the field of large-size
diamond material preparation technology, this invention addresses the problems of difficulty in directly preparing 6-inch single-
crystal diamond wafers from single seed crystals, low
crystal orientation matching accuracy,
stress concentration at the joint interface, insufficient interface fusion, and poor
wafer flatness in traditional splicing growth. The invention proposes a
wafer structure consisting of multiple single-crystal diamond seed crystals arranged in a mosaic array, with a joint interface formed between adjacent single-crystal diamond seed crystals.
A diamond fusion layer fills the joint interface and covers the surface of the single-crystal diamond seed crystals, and a surface functional layer is disposed on the surface of the diamond fusion layer. During preparation,
seed crystal pretreatment, precise arrangement, interface pretreatment, fusion growth, and global flattening are performed sequentially. Through
crystal orientation calibration,
hydrogen plasma etching, and staged CVD growth, the joint interface is fully fused to form a continuous integral structure.