Abstract: An indenter is made of polycrystalline diamond and has a tip having a spherical surface with a radius of 10 to 2000 ?m.

Abstract: A polycrystalline diamond body contains diamond particles, the diamond particles have a mean particle size of 50 nm or less, and a crack initiation load is 10 N or more as measured in a fracture strength test by pressing a diamond indenter D with a tip radius Dr of 50 ?m against a surface of the polycrystalline diamond body at a load rate F of 100 N/min. Accordingly, a polycrystalline diamond body that is tough and has a small diamond particle size, a cutting tool, a wear-resistant tool, a grinding tool, and a method for producing the polycrystalline diamond body are provided.

Abstract: A composite polycrystal contains polycrystalline diamond formed of diamond grains that are directly bonded mutually, and non-diamond carbon dispersed in the polycrystalline diamond, and has a concentration of contained hydrogen of greater than 1000 ppm and less than or equal to 20000 ppm.

Abstract: A method of producing a boron nitride polycrystal includes: a first step of obtaining a thermally treated powder by thermally treating a powder of a high pressure phase boron nitride at more than or equal to 1300° C.; and a second step of obtaining a boron nitride polycrystal by sintering the thermally treated powder under a condition of 8 to 20 GPa and 1200 to 2300° C.

Abstract: In a single-crystal diamond material, a concentration of non-substitutional nitrogen atoms is not more than 200 ppm, a concentration of substitutional nitrogen atoms is lower than the concentration of the non-substitutional nitrogen atoms, and the single-crystal diamond material has a crystal growth main surface having an off angle of not more than 20°. A perforated tool includes a single-crystal diamond die, wherein in the single-crystal diamond die, a concentration of non-substitutional nitrogen atoms is not more than 200 ppm, a concentration of substitutional nitrogen atoms is lower than the concentration of the non-substitutional nitrogen atoms, and the single-crystal diamond die has a low-index plane represented by a Miller index of not less than ?5 and not more than 5 in an integer, a perpendicular line of the low-index plane having an off angle of not more than 20° relative to an orientation of a hole for wire drawing.

Abstract: Single crystal diamond of which hardness and chipping resistance have been improved in a balanced manner, a method for manufacturing the single crystal diamond, and a tool containing the diamond are provided. Single crystal diamond contains nitrogen atoms, and a ratio of the number of isolated substitutional nitrogen atoms in the single crystal diamond to the total number of nitrogen atoms in the single crystal diamond is not lower than 0.02% and lower than 40%.

Abstract: In a single-crystal diamond material, a concentration of non-substitutional nitrogen atoms is not more than 200 ppm, a concentration of substitutional nitrogen atoms is lower than the concentration of the non-substitutional nitrogen atoms, and the single-crystal diamond material has a crystal growth main surface having an off angle of not more than 20°. A perforated tool includes a single-crystal diamond die, wherein in the single-crystal diamond die, a concentration of non-substitutional nitrogen atoms is not more than 200 ppm, a concentration of substitutional nitrogen atoms is lower than the concentration of the non-substitutional nitrogen atoms, and the single-crystal diamond die has a low-index plane represented by a Miller index of not less than ?5 and not more than 5 in an integer, a perpendicular line of the low-index plane having an off angle of not more than 20° relative to an orientation of a hole for wire drawing.

Abstract: A method for producing a diamond single crystal includes implanting an ion other than carbon into a surface of a diamond single crystal seed substrate and thereby decreasing the transmittance of light having a wavelength of 800 nm, the surface having an off-angle of 7 degrees or less with respect to a {100} plane, and homoepitaxially growing a diamond single crystal on the ion-implanted surface of the seed substrate using a chemical vapor synthesis under synthesis conditions where the ratio NC/NH of the number of carbon-containing molecules NC to the number of hydrogen molecules NH in a gas phase is 10% or more and 40% or less, the ratio NN/NC of the number of nitrogen molecules NN to the number of carbon-containing molecules NC in the gas phase is 0.1% or more and 10% or less, and the seed substrate temperature T is 850° C. or more and less than 1000° C.

Abstract: A wear-resistant tool includes composite polycrystalline diamond as a core, the composite polycrystalline diamond being composed of polycrystalline diamond in which particulate diamond is directly bonded and non diamond carbon. The polycrystalline diamond in the composite polycrystalline diamond is three-dimensionally continuous in composite polycrystal and primary particles have an average particle size from 10 to 500 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a single-crystal diamond, the method including the steps of: forming a protective film on at least a part of a surface of an auxiliary plate; preparing a diamond seed crystal substrate; disposing an auxiliary plate with a protective film that has the protective film formed on the auxiliary plate, and a diamond seed crystal substrate in a chamber; and growing a single-crystal diamond on a principal surface of the diamond seed crystal substrate by a chemical vapor deposition method while introducing a carbon-containing gas into the chamber.

Abstract: A composite polycrystal contains polycrystalline diamond formed of diamond grains that are directly bonded mutually, and non-diamond carbon dispersed in the polycrystalline diamond, and has a concentration of contained hydrogen of less than or equal to 1000 ppm.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a polycrystalline diamond body, the method including a first step of heat-treating a powder of high-pressure-phase carbon at higher than or equal to 1300° C. to obtain a heat-treated carbon powder, and a second step of sintering the heat-treated carbon powder under conditions of greater than or equal to 12 GPa and less than or equal to 25 GPa and higher than or equal to 1200° C. and lower than or equal to 2300° C. to obtain a polycrystalline diamond body.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a cubic boron nitride polycrystalline material excellent in toughness. A cubic boron nitride polycrystalline material containing fine cubic boron nitride which is granular, has a maximum grain size not greater than 100 nm, and has an average grain size not greater than 70 nm and at least one of plate-shaped cubic boron nitride in a form of a plate having an average major radius not smaller than 50 nm and not greater than 10000 nm and coarse cubic boron nitride which is granular, has a minimum grain size exceeding 100 nm, and has an average grain size not greater than 1000 nm is provided.

Abstract: Nano polycrystalline diamond is composed of carbon, an element of different type which is an element other than carbon and is added to be dispersed in carbon at an atomic level, and an inevitable impurity. The polycrystalline diamond has a crystal grain size not greater than 500 nm. The polycrystalline diamond can be fabricated by subjecting graphite in which the element of different type which is an element other than carbon has been added to be dispersed in carbon at an atomic level to heat treatment within high-pressure press equipment.

Abstract: A diamond die includes a diamond provided with a hole for drawing a wire material, the diamond being a CVD single-crystal diamond, an axis of the hole being inclined relative to a normal direction of a crystal plane of the diamond.

Abstract: The present diamond single crystal is a diamond single crystal containing nitrogen atoms, in which a concentration of the nitrogen atoms changes periodically along a crystal orientation of the diamond single crystal, and an arithmetic average value Aave, a maximum value Amax, and a minimum value Amin of the distance of one period along the crystal orientation satisfy the relationship expressed by the following equation (I): (Amax)/1.25?(Aave)?(Amin)/0.75??(I).

Abstract: A single crystal diamond (10) is provided as a single crystal diamond into which a defect portion (11) is introduced. The defect portion (11) can be detected by a phase difference occurring when the single crystal diamond (10) is irradiated with circularly polarized light. In the single crystal diamond (10), a maximum value of average values of the phase differences measured within a measurement region (M) formed in a shape of a square having a side length of 1 mm is 30 nm or more.

Abstract: A single crystal diamond has a surface. In the single crystal diamond, a measurement region is defined in the surface, the measurement region includes a portion exhibiting a transmittance that is highest in the single crystal diamond and a portion exhibiting a transmittance that is lowest in the single crystal diamond, the measurement region has a plurality of square regions that are continuously arranged and each have a side having a length of 0.2 mm, and an average value of transmittances in each of the plurality of square regions is measured, wherein assuming that the average value of the transmittances in one square region is defined as T1 and the average value of the transmittances in another square region adjacent to the one square region is defined as T2, a relation of ((T1?T2)/((T1+T2)/2)×100)/0.2?20 (%/mm) is satisfied throughout the measurement region.

Abstract: A composite sintered body includes a first phase and a second phase. The first phase is a diamond phase, and the second phase is a phase formed of one or more types of elements or compounds or both thereof and applying strain to the first phase. A contained amount of the second phase is larger than 0 ppm and not larger than 1000 ppm. As a result, there is provided a high wear-resistant, high local wear-resistant, and high chipping-resistant diamond-containing composite sintered body.

Abstract: A polycrystalline diamond body contains diamond particles, the diamond particles have a mean particle size of 50 nm or less, and a crack initiation load is 10 N or more as measured in a fracture strength test by pressing a diamond indenter D with a tip radius Dr of 50 ?m against a surface of the polycrystalline diamond body at a load rate F of 100 N/min. Accordingly, a polycrystalline diamond body that is tough and has a small diamond particle size, a cutting tool, a wear-resistant tool, a grinding tool, and a method for producing the polycrystalline diamond body are provided.