#Diamonds

Joseph Shavit

May 24, 2022

Diamond mirrors will drive tomorrow's high-powered lasers

Today, it’s difficult to engineer resilient and long-lasting components that can control the powerful beams that lasers emit.

Joshua Shavit

Dec 20, 2021

Flawed diamonds may provide perfect interface for quantum computers

Flaws in diamonds — atomic defects where carbon is replaced by nitrogen or another element — may offer an interface for quantum computing.

Joshua Shavit

Sep 9, 2021

Are we standing on a quadrillion tons of diamonds? (video)

There might be a quadrillion tons of diamonds 100 miles below Earth’s surface. But the farthest we’ve traveled is 7 miles down.