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Diamond plate with atomic-sized flaws
In this image, the clear wafer at the center of the confocal microscope is a diamond plate with atomic-sized flaws. Green, orange and red lasers excite these flaws to manipulate and measure them, which allows for measuring small magnetic fields at nanometer length scales.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DMR 1752047.]
Learn more in the Princeton University news story That flawed diamond could be a quantum physicist's best friend. (Date of image: 2022; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: May 10, 2024)
Credit: David Kelly Crow/Princeton University
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