NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've created a diamond-based nanowire device that could lead to a new class of diamond nanomaterials.
Harvard University scientists said their achievement is another step toward creating quantum communication and computing, as well as advancing areas ranging from biological and chemical sensing to scientific imaging.
The researchers led by Assistant Professor Marko Loncar said their new device offers a bright, stable source of single photons at room temperature -- an essential element in making fast and secure computing with light practical.
"We consider this an important step and enabling technology towards more practical optical systems based on this exciting material platform," Loncar said. "Starting with these synthetic, nanostructured diamond samples, we can start dreaming about the diamond-based devices and systems that could one day lead to applications in quantum science and technology as well as in sensing and imaging."
The research that included Tom Babinec, Birgit Hausmann, Yinan Zhang, Mughees Khan, all at Harvard, and Professor Phil Hemmer at Texas A&M University, appears in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
