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Diamonds might be forever but that doesn't stop them being bought and sold. One stone thought to have once belonged to Marie ...
A remarkable pink diamond, thought to have once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, has recently been ...
"Our challenge consisted in enlarging the structure of a diamond crystal by a factor of 500, so that the spaces between the building blocks correspond with the wavelength of light," explains Liedl.
Diamonds with a particularly large number of nitrogen atoms have a yellow tint. Quantum computers exclusively use synthetic diamonds. Nitrogen atoms artificially introduced into the crystal lattice ...
In contrast to lithographic techniques, the LMU team uses a method called DNA origami to design and synthesize building blocks, which then self-assemble into a specific lattice structure. “It’s long ...
Since the crystal lattices of the two layers are no longer exactly on top of each other, a kind of beating effect occurs: just as two sound waves with slightly different frequencies lead to a slow ...
The surrounding crystal lattice generates high static pressures, which can stabilize the 2D solid helium at ambient temperature. Diamond, the hardest material on earth, is considered most suitable to ...
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that makes it easier to study interactions between electrons in a material. Using a moiré material consisting of twisted atomic layers they ...
Diamond NV centres. For its spins, the team used nitrogen–vacancy (NV) centres in a diamond crystal. These occur when two neighbouring carbon atoms in a diamond lattice are replaced with a nitrogen ...
Diamond layers can help to dissipate the heat generated by high-power semiconductor devices. This effect has now been enhanced by adding layers of materials and engineering their crystal-lattice ...