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Diamond could be the key to next generation of supercomputers | Scientists in California are developing diamond-based
computers that, they believe, would store millions of times more information than the current silicon-based systems. The researchers have used commercially available
technology to pattern large sheets of diamonds with tiny, nitrogen-filled holes.
According to scientists, diamond sheets patterned with thousands of nitrogen atoms
could provide the basis for a supercomputer. The nitrogen-vacancy diamonds, as
the sheets are called by scientists, could store millions of times more information
than the silicon-based system and process that information dozens of times faster.
Exactly how diamond-based computing would be used has yet to be determined, but
applications could range from designing more efficient silicon-based computers
to drug development and cryptography. Nitrogen has been in diamonds for as long
as there have been diamonds; it's why some diamonds have a yellow hue. For years
scientists have used these natural, nitrogen-infused diamonds to study various
aspects of quantum mechanics. "We've used well-known techniques to create atomic-size
defects in otherwise perfect diamonds," Discovery News quoted David Awschalom,
a scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-author The article
appears in the journal ACS Nano Letters. |
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