News tagged with crystal diamond
Diamonds are a laser's best friend
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomorrow's lasers may come with a bit of bling, thanks to a new technology that uses man-made diamonds to enhance the power and capabilities of lasers. Researchers in Australia have now demonstrated the first ...
Novel diamond-like films on board NASA satellite
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamond-like carbon films created at Sandia National Laboratories are helping probe the far boundaries of the solar system as part of a NASA mission to study how the sun's solar wind interacts ...
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A crystal that nature may have missed
Jan 03, 2008 |
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For centuries, human beings have been entranced by the captivating glimmer of the diamond. What accounts for the stunning beauty of this most precious gem? As mathematician Toshikazu Sunada explains in an ...
Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Bit of bling adds new dimension to laser beam technology
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- No longer just an expensive ornament, diamonds are now of a sufficient size and quality to attract the eye of a team of physicists at Macquarie University, who are using them to develop a ...
Scientists Create First Non-Carbon Material with Near-Diamond Hardness
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 28, 2007 |
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Research scientists have created the first non-carbon-based material with a hardness approaching that of diamond. Their work could have a significant impact on technologies and industries that rely on diamond as a cutting ...
New Process Promises Bigger, Better Diamond Crystals
Oct 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Carnegie Institution have developed a new technique for improving the properties of diamonds—not only adding sparkle to gemstones, but also simplifying the process of making ...
Glittering and glinting, the world's biggest diamond structure heads to the West End, UK
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The largest representation ever created of the atomic structure of diamond will be brought to the West End on Tuesday for public exhibition. The sculpture is one of three works of science art portraying carbon ...
A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated a reliable path for sculpting an intricate x-ray focusing lens out of diamond. Their technique, which was ...
Computation helps predict heat transfer in diamond
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researcher Derek Stewart and collaborators have calculated the exact mechanism by which diamond conducts heat, a breakthrough that could lend insight into many fields, including electronics.
New nanocrystalline diamond probes overcome wear
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have developed, characterized, and modeled a new kind of probe used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, ...
Researchers find way to produce very large diamonds very fast
May 16, 2005 |
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Washington, D.C. Researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory have learned to produce 10-carat, half-inch thick single-crystal diamonds at rapid growth rates (100 micrometers per hour) ...
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