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Nanophysics Feb 2, 2017

Artificially introduced atomic-level sensors enable measurements of anelectric field within working semiconductor device

Semiconductors are at the heart of most electronic devices that govern our daily lives. The proper functioning of semiconductor devices relies on their internally generated electric fields. Measuring these fields on the nanoscale ...

Condensed Matter Jan 26, 2017

Âé¶¹ÒùÔºicists unveil new form of matter—time crystals

Normal crystals, likes diamond, are an atomic lattice that repeats in space, but physicists recently suggested making materials that repeat in time. Last year, UC Berkeley's Norman Yao sketched out the phases surrounding ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Dec 20, 2016

Researchers trace neural activity by using quantum sensors

It's one of the purest and most versatile materials in the world, with uses in everything from jewelry to industrial abrasives to quantum science. But a group of Harvard scientists has uncovered a new use for diamonds: tracking ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Dec 16, 2016

World's smallest radio receiver has building blocks the size of two atoms

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have made the world's smallest radio receiver - built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diamonds.

Quantum Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Nov 2, 2016

New technique for creating NV-doped nanodiamonds may be boost for quantum computing

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating NV-doped single-crystal nanodiamonds, only four to eight nanometers wide, which could serve as components in room-temperature quantum ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Oct 26, 2016

Defects in diamond: A unique platform for optical data storage in 3-D

In the world of big data, there are limitations on how to store large volumes of information. Typical home-computer hard disk drives consume a lot of power and are limited to a few terabytes per drive. Optical storage media ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Sep 12, 2016

Putting cells through their paces

The spheroid is the width of a few human hairs and made up of 25,000 human lung cells clustered together with iron particle, suspended in a fluid that runs though a microscopic obstacle course of channels sealed between glass.

Quantum Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Aug 30, 2016

Diamonds and quantum information processing on the nano scale

A City College of New York led-team headed by physicist Dr. Carlos Meriles has successfully demonstrated charge transport between Nitrogen-Vacancy color centers in diamond. The team developed a novel multi-color scanning ...

Quantum Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jul 19, 2016

Electron 'spin control' of levitated nanodiamonds could bring advances in sensors, quantum information processing

Researchers have demonstrated how to control the "electron spin" of a nanodiamond while it is levitated with lasers in a vacuum, an advance that could find applications in quantum information processing, sensors and studies ...

Quantum Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jul 11, 2016

Diamond coupled to carbon nanotube could be used for quantum information processing

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—By carefully placing a tiny piece of diamond within a few nanometers of a carbon nanotube, and then sending an electric current through the nanotube, researchers have designed a device that could one day form ...

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