Selected significant scientific and technological accomplishments (Click titles for more details):

1. Developed a method of fabricating highly aligned carbon nanotube arrays and their applications.

2. Invented a method of converting methanol based solutions into diamond.

3. Invented one of the most effective and economic methods for smoothing and shaping wide-band- gap semiconducting and super-hard chemically vapor deposited diamond.

4. Developed a method of converting acetylene into diamond by an array of combustion flames.

5. Developed and demonstrated one of the best manufacturing technologies for free-standing single crystalline CVD diamond.

6. Invented a method of synthesizing cubic boron nitride by an electron beam assisted sputtering process.

7. Discovery of the extremely low coefficient of friction for diamond sliding on diamond in water.

8. Developed and demonstrated electrical contacts with extremely low specific contact resistance for YBCO superconductors.

9. Demonstrated a superconducting opening switch.

10. Developed and demonstrated one of the best high-k, low-loss, and high-dielectric-strength thin film tantalum pentoxide capacitor.

11. Developed and demonstrated high-rate anisotropic plasma assisted etching of silicon.

12. Physical insight into the formation mechanism for streamer electrical breakdown.

13. Developed and demonstrated a nanosecond electron beam triggered plasma switch.

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