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




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Diamonds and dust for better cement

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's no surprise that humans the world over use more water, by volume, than any other material. But in second place, at over 17 billion tons consumed each year, comes concrete made with Portland ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New hybrid technology could bring 'quantum information systems'

(PhysOrg.com) -- The merging of two technologies under development - plasmonics and nanophotonics - is promising the emergence of new "quantum information systems" far more powerful than today's computers.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nobel laureate puts the squeeze on hydrogen

Hydrogen, normally a gas, may act like a metal when squeezed under extreme pressure. In that state, competing chemical and physical effects determine its properties, said Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, Cornell's ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Building crystalline materials from nanoparticles and DNA

Nature is a master builder. Using a bottom-up approach, nature takes tiny atoms and, through chemical bonding, makes crystalline materials, like diamonds, silicon and even table salt. In all of them, the properties of the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New knowledge about 'flawed' diamonds could speed the development of diamond-based quantum computers

A University at Buffalo-led research team has established the presence of a dynamic Jahn-Teller effect in defective diamonds, a finding that will help advance the development of diamond-based systems in applications ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Progress in quantum computing, qubit by qubit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers and physicists at Harvard have managed to capture light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at a controllable rate.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

How diamonds emerge from graphite

Scientists have used a new method to precisely simulate the phase transition from graphite to diamond for the first time. Instead of happening concerted, all at once, the conversion evidently takes place in ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers theorize that neutrons may be squished into cubes in neutron stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neutrons, those particles that reside here on Earth inside the nucleus of atoms, along with protons, collectively called nucleons, are thought to exist in the far reaches of the universe inside ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 33 | with audio podcast report

Carbon 'grapevine' may store hydrogen

(PhysOrg.com) -- A nanoscale grapevine with hydrogen grapes could someday provide your car's preferred vintage of fuel.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Diamonds shine in quantum networks: Researchers hitch precious stone's impurities onto nano-resonators

When it comes to dreaming about diamonds, energy efficiency and powerful information processing aren't normally the thoughts that spring to mind. Unless, of course, you are a quantum physicist looking to create the most secure ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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