Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic probe. According to the invention this comprises a diamond substrate which is provided with an electrically conductive monocrystalline diamond layer, deposited via vapour deposition, which is ground to a tip of the probe. The invention entails further a method for the manufacture of such an electronic probe.

Abstract: A diamond heat sink is made by metalizing at least one diamond and attaching the metalized diamond to a base plate and coating the exposed surfaces of the diamond and the base plate with a metallic layer. To do this a thin solder metal layer is first applied in the contact surface between the diamond and the base plate and the diamond is attached to the base plate by supplying heat through the diamond to the contact surface between the diamond and the base plate. Thereafter the base plate is removed from the diamonds to obtain the diamond heat sink composed of the diamond and the metallic layer.