Glass for Diamond Processing: A tale of two Outstanding Materials

This article aims to give a brief introduction on diamond, its important properties and processing techniques starting from a rough diamond, primarily for the readers from the non-diamond professionals. A sincere effort has been made to describe how chalcogenide glasses can play an important role for diamond processing, especially at the rough diamond inspection stage to help the diamond professionals for making a perfect process planning to realize an augmented profitability. Chalcogenide glass being a non-oxide and non-conventional glass, a brief overview on this glass, its important properties and specialized fabrication technique has been presented. Finally, diamond processing technique using chalcogenide glass and its advantages has been elucidated