Diamond is more than just a pretty gem – it has many attractive properties that stretch far beyond its aesthetic appeal. Matthew Markham and Daniel Twitchen explain how this special form of carbon now ...

(Nanowerk News) The joint project “Deutsche Brilliance” (DE-Brill) aims to harness the special material properties of diamond and develop technologies for manufacturing and controlling diamond-based ...

Qubits through color centers in diamond "In the SPINNING project, we want to make an important contribution to the German quantum technology ecosystem. To this end, we are using the material ...

Simple bending of diamond nanoneedles can reversibly convert diamond from an electrical insulator to a metal-like conductor, a study finds. Recent studies have shown that nanoscale diamond needles can ...

The high purity Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) diamond engineered by Element Six has facilitated a ground-breaking fiber-coupled diamond magnetometer, which is on track to improve diagnostics in ...

A team of scientists from two universities in China have synthesized a material harder than diamond in the laboratory. When ...

A new joint research and development project called “Deutsche Brilliance” (DE-Brill), launched last month, aims to enable scalable diamond quantum microprocessors with the ultimate objective of ...

The number of materials being researched for chips used in extreme environments, such as landing on the planet Venus, is growing. While GaN has captured much of the attention for power conversion ...