An amorphous diamond - one that lacks the crystalline structure of diamond, but is every bit as hard - has been created by a Stanford-led team of researchers. Graduate student Yu Lin loads glassy ...

A team of Stanford earth science researchers has pioneered the “amorphous diamond,” a new carbon material as hard as diamond but lacking its crystalline structure. The group, led by assistant ...

Earlier this year, amorphous diamond was synthesized for the first time using a technique involving high pressures, moderately high temperatures and a tiny amount of glassy carbon as starting material ...

The interaction of a material with light is intimately related to its wavelength-scale structure. Simple connections between structure and optical response empower us with essential intuition to ...

Chris Walker looks at some of the uses of a novel amorphous diamond material. Diamond — hard, sparkling and bright — has been revered for thousands of years as a gemstone. Nowadays it is also widely ...

Carbon is the fourth-most-abundant element in the universe and takes on a wide variety of forms, called allotropes, including diamond and graphite. Scientists have now discovered a new form of carbon, ...

Despite their lack of periodicity, amorphous structures may offer a promising alternative to fabricate perfect photonic crystals. Researchers from the University of Tokyo, in collaboration with NTT ...

In the addressable field emitter array concept, electron beams from amorphous diamond cathodes “write” circuit patterns onto a computer chip wafer. The technology could help chip makers attain the ...

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a method to relieve the internal stresses of amorphous, or noncrystalline, diamond films, creating improved protection for metal and plastic ...

An amorphous diamond – one that lacks the crystalline structure of diamond, but is every bit as hard – has been created by a Stanford-led team of researchers. But what good is an amorphous diamond?

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 30, 2017 -- Earlier this year, amorphous diamond was synthesized for the first time using a technique involving high pressures, moderately high temperatures and a tiny ...

Diamond is a form of pure carbon in which the atoms are arranged in a crystal lattice, with each carbon atom surrounded by four other carbons at the corners of a tetrahedron. The carbon-carbon bonds ...