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Breaking Down Diamonds, Atom By Atom

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An inadvertent breakthrough in laser technology could enhance the development of quantum computers and other diamond-based technologies. Researchers at Macquarie University’s MQ Photonics Research Centre discovered that UV laser light was able to remove single atoms, one by one, from diamonds. While working on the development of diamond lasers, the team made the find when the devices revealed erosion on the surface of the diamond facets that was destroying the beams’ optical path. The atoms are released when the UV laser hits the diamond surface. Courtesy of Chris...Read full article

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    Published: March 2014
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    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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