GLCT Newsroom
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Advances Diamond Materials Platform for Next-Generation Electronics Applications
EAST LANSING, Michigan — Jul 21 2026 — Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a Michigan State University (MSU)-founded materials company, is scaling production of semiconductor-grade [...]
2026 Product Portfolio Expansion Announcement
Advancing Diamond Solutions for Optical, Quantum, Thermal, and Electronic Systems Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT) is formally expanding and refining our diamond substrate portfolio [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Quantum Sensors Recognized by Quantum Economic Development Consortium
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies was recently recognized in a Quantum Economic Development Consortium report highlighting quantum sensors’ role in revolutionizing biomedical technologies.
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Awarded $2.7M from National Security Innovation Capital
EAST LANSING, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), the leading U.S.-based provider of single-crystal high-performance diamond plates, substrates, and epitaxial wafers for high-technology applications, [...]
GLCT Co-Founder Dr. Timothy Grotjohn Elected as NAI Fellow
June 18, 2024: The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) inducted Dr. Tim Grotjohn, GLCT’s technical founder and MSU professor, into its 2023 class. This [...]
Diamond-based semiconductors for a faster, more resilient power grid
The University of Illinois has been selected to receive $3.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). [...]
GLCT closes oversubscribed Series Seed round to expand team and diamond manufacturing capacity
October 16, 2023: Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT) announced today that it closed a highly oversubscribed Series Seed funding round to advance its mission [...]
Chicago Quantum Exchange welcomes new international and corporate partners
The Chicago Quantum Exchange welcomed the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) as its fifth international partner, an agreement highlighted last week during [...]
Diamond Materials and Device Expert Joins GLCT’s Technical Staff
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Cristian Herrera-Rodriguez to its [...]
Effects of Molecular Contamination and sp2 Carbon on Oxidation of (100) Single-Crystal Diamond Surfaces
GLCT’s technical founder and MSU professor Tim Grotjohn is a co-author on a new publication reporting on an experimental study on X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy [...]
Mi STEM Forward Program Connects Employers with Talented Students
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, has benefited by participation in the Michigan STEM Forward Internship Program. Concentrate, [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Selected to Develop Diamond Sensor for Molten Salt Reactors
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, announced today that its DOE Phase I SBIR proposal entitled “Diamond Rheometer [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Has Successful ISO Surveillance Audit
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, announced today that it passed its first surveillance audit which took on [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies and Cove Diamond Combine
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, announced today that it has closed on the acquisition of Cove Diamond, [...]
The Effects of Boron Doping on the Bulk and Surface Acoustic Phonons in Single-Crystal Diamond
GLCT’s technical founder and MSU professor Tim Grotjohn is a co-author on a publication reporting on the results of an investigation of bulk and [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Selected by US DOE for 3 New Projects
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, announced today that each of its three Phase I SBIR/STTR proposals which [...]
Distributed Current Low – Resistance Diamond Ohmic Contacts
GLCT co-founder and MSU professor Tim Grotjohn is an inventor on the recently issued U.S. patent number 11,222,956 [Application Number 16/844,907] which was granted [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Earns ISO 9001:2015 Certification
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, announced today that it has earned a certificate of registration, recognizing the [...]
Towards High-Power Multipliers Using Diamond Schottky Barrier Diodes
GLCT’s technical founder and MSU professor Tim Grotjohn is a co-author on a publication reporting on the design, fabrication, and small-signal RF characterization of frequency [...]
MSU Innovation Center: Collaborative support fuels diamond growth
The MSU Innovation Center’s 2021 Annual Report features our technical founder Tim Grotjohn on its cover holding a diamond and includes a nice article [...]
Arizona State and Michigan State University High Technology Diamond Startups Sign Strategic Alliance MOU
Advent Diamond, Inc. (Advent), an Arizona State University (ASU) diamond device startup, and Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a Michigan State University (MSU) diamond [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Joins Resilient Infrastructure + Secure Energy (RISE) Consortium™
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, announced today it has joined the Resilient Infrastructure + Secure Energy (RISE) [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Joins Duality, Nation’s First Quantum Accelerator Program
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, announced today it has been selected to join the first cohort of [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Benefits from Michigan STEM Forward Program
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, announced today its participation in the Michigan STEM Forward Program, which is [...]
Startup Success: Great Lakes Crystal Technologies
We are thankful to Tracy Henion at the MSU Innovation Center for her nice article about GLCT. Read the article here.
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Expands Management Team
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, is pleased to announce a key addition to its management team. Dr. [...]
GLCT Technical Founder Timothy Grotjohn Honored with Tech Transfer Achievement Award
GLCT’s technical founder, MSU professor Tim Grotjohn, was honored with the 2021 Technology Transfer Achievement Award by the MSU Innovation Center. Read the MSU [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Awarded Phase II Grant by US Department of Energy for Advanced X-Ray Optics Development
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, is pleased to announce that the company has been awarded a Phase [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Enters Supply Agreement with Army Research Laboratory
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, is pleased to announce that the company has entered into an agreement [...]
Hard X-ray transient grating spectroscopy on bismuth germanate
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute are benefiting from the extremely robust nature of crystalline diamond materials to enable their research into application of [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Receives Seed Round Funding Led by Global Materials Manufacturer and Signs Partnership MOU
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, is pleased to announce that the company has secured over $500,000 in [...]
Direct formation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in nitrogen doped diamond along the trajectories of swift heavy ions
An international team of researchers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered a way to use ion beams to create long [...]
Michigan State University Foundation Wins Tibbetts Award
GLCT is proud to have contributed to events that led to Michigan State University winning the Tibbetts Award. Read the Press Release here.
Fabrication of AlGaAs/GaAs/diamond heterojunctions for diamond-collector HBTs
GLCT’s technical founder and MSU professor Tim Grotjohn is a co-author on a publication demonstrating advanced III-V/diamond heterostructure based HBTs. Read the publication here.
Damage-free highly efficient plasma-assisted polishing of a 20-mm square large mosaic single crystal diamond substrate
A team of researchers led by Nian Liu of Osaka University has developed a damage-free plasma-assisted polishing technique for preparing the surface of large [...]
GLCT wins additional BAF support
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, has been selected for additional support under the Michigan Business Accelerator Fund [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Wins Air Force Phase II STTR Award
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, has won an Air Force Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Selected by NASA for Radiation Hard Electronics Development
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, has been selected for funding support by NASA based on GLCT’s Phase [...]
Diamond Crystal Growth Expert Joins Great Lakes Crystal Technologies
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, has hired Dr. Paul Quayle, a leading diamond crystal growth expert, to [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Closes on IP License with Michigan State University
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, has entered into a license with Michigan State University (MSU) covering a [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Selected for Navy Project
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, was selected for funding under the US Navy’s Small Business Innovative [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies Wins MSU Student Venture Capital Fund Support
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high-tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, was selected by Michigan State University’s Student Venture Capital Fund (SVCF) for [...]
A Monolithic Wilkinson Power Divider on Diamond via a Combination of Additive Manufacturing and Thin-Film Process
GLCT’s technical founder and MSU professor Tim Grotjohn is a co-author on a publication demonstrates the fabrication process and RF testing of a monolithic [...]
Diamond Metal-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor for High Temperature Applications
GLCT co-founder and Michigan State University (MSU) Professor Tim Grotjohn and his colleagues at MSU and Fraunhofer USA Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies [...]
GLCT Announces Completion of MI BAF Project
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT) is pleased to give thanks to three Michigan based professional business service providers for their superb execution of three [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies to Develop Diffraction Grade Diamond
A team led by Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a high tech startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, was selected for funding under the US [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT) Selected for Air Force Project
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a new startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, was selected for an award under the US Air Force’s Small Business [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT) Selected for Michigan Business Accelerator Fund Support
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT), a new startup in Michigan’s Capitol Region, was selected for support under the Michigan Business Accelerator Fund (BAF) program [...]
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT) Launches in Michigan
Great Lakes Crystal Technologies (GLCT) has established itself as a Michigan C-Corps corporation with plans to begin operations this coming Fall in the Van [...]
