Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT) was founded in the summer of 2019 as a spinout of the world-class diamond research collaboration between Michigan State University and co-located Fraunhofer USA Center Midwest CMW. The GLCT's mission and objective in defined as their being the leading provider of advanced high-performance diamond materials for high-technology applications: enormous potential. It has been long understood that crystalline diamond has the potential to outperform all other semiconductor materials for a broad range of electronic device applications. Additionally, its large bandgap, wide optical transmission window, high thermal conductivity, high structural quality, and great thermal stability make it ideal for radiation detection, high temperature electronics, and advanced optics applications including intra-cavity laser optics and x-ray diffraction optics. Further, the exciting properties of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond position it to disrupt the field of magnetic field sensing and could also enable diamond to serve as a platform material for quantum computing and quantum communications
