Physicists have successfully created a lab-grown diamond with a hardness exceeding that of natural diamonds. By subjecting graphite to extreme pressure and heat, researchers synthesized a rare ...

Diamond is well-known for being the hardest natural material on Earth, though synthetic forms have been developed that are even tougher – a feat that researchers have managed again, through a new ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that makes it easier to study interactions between electrons in a material. Using a moiré material consisting of twisted atomic layers they created an ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new technique to better understand how electrons interact within materials. By ...

This center considerably influences diamond coloration and constitutes ... center either shift or split due to distortion of the crystal lattice surrounding the center. However, the interaction ...

Silicon has the diamond cubic crystal structure with a lattice parameter of 0.543 nm. The nearest neighbor distance is 0.235 nm. The diamond cubic crystal structure has an fcc lattice with a basis of ...

The crystal has a lattice parameter of 0.541 nm. The crystal structure is also known as diamond cubic and may be thought of as two interpenetrating fcc lattices, one for sulphur the other for zinc, ...

Researchers have developed a method by which artificial crystal lattices with a large lattice constant can be created in a ... (an artificially synthesized solid that is almost as hard as diamond) ...