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A team of boffins have come up with a new way of saving huge amounts of data on diamonds.
City University of New York Professor Carlos Meriles and his colleagues took advance of a defect in diamond which occurs when a carbon atom is replaced by a nitrogen atom in the diamond's lattice structure. Nitrogen vacancy centres trap electrons, but the electron can also be forced out of the defect by a laser pulse.
So, the team used optical microscopy to read, write and reset information in a diamond crystal.
A team of boffins have come up with a new way of saving huge amounts of data on diamonds.
City University of New York Professor Carlos Meriles and his colleagues took advance of a defect in diamond which occurs when a carbon atom is replaced by a nitrogen atom in the diamond's lattice structure. Nitrogen vacancy centres trap electrons, but the electron can also be forced out of the defect by a laser pulse.
So, the team used optical microscopy to read, write and reset information in a diamond crystal.
