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by uvdiv 4833 days ago
Google says maybe?

http://www.diamond-materials.com/EN/products/overview.htm

http://www.e6cvd.com/cvd/page.jsp?pageid=298

The prices are a bit high: a 0.8 cm diamond optical window goes for $450, for example.

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Hmm, they offer discs up to 12cm [0] in diameter. However they are made using "the chemical vapor deposition technique allow[ing] the synthesis of diamond in the shape of extended disks or wafers. Under optimized growth conditions the properties of these disks approach those of perfect diamond single crystals."

I wonder if how the mechanical properties compare to single crystal diamonds.

[0] http://www.diamond-materials.com/EN/products/disks_films_mem...