Some don’t appear to have any hints of diamonds. Others contain carbon crystals that look notably different from engagement ring stones: The structures have more folds, with atoms that appear to ...

A new form of diamond has been created. Its unique structure gives it properties that are similar to those of natural diamonds, but it is more stable under extreme heat, so may be useful in tools ...

Diamonds are the hardest natural substance on Earth, but that may not necessarily be true on carbon-rich exoplanets where certain temperature and pressure conditions create an ultra-dense form of ...

The pores formed a diamond structure that was found to behave as a semiconductor for light: a photonic crystal Figure 1- Electron microscope image of a three-dimensional diamond structure in silicon ...

linking atomic scale structure with quantum properties.” The group worked with a type of qubit called a silicon vacancy center: Two carbon atoms are removed from diamond and replaced with a ...

Here’s how it works. While studying diamonds inside an ancient meteorite, scientists have found a strange, interwoven microscopic structure that has never been seen before. The structure ...

The big challenge was that the location of the pattern in mask had to be within 30 nm and 0.5º from optimal in position and angle to yield the desired diamond-like structure after etching. The pattern ...