News tagged with diamond lattice

'Critical baby step' taken for spying life on a molecular scale

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to image single biological molecules in a living cell is something that has long eluded researchers; however, a novel technique, using the structure of diamond, may well be able ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists take another step towards quantum computing using flawed diamonds

(PhysOrg.com) -- David D. Awschalom, of the Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, in a paper published recently in the Bulletin of the American Physical Society, describes a way ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Made to order diamonds hold key to stunning laser discoveries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamond is best known for being a prized gem and the hardest cutting element available, but now thanks to research being carried out at Macquarie University it is also proving to be a super ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large, perfect diamonds are precious to almost all of us but to some scientists, it is the defects that really matter. This is because defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0