Light offers a hugely powerful tool to scientists and engineers. It allows many different kinds of sophisticated analyses on a vast array of materials, including solids, liquids and gases. But the ...

The UK's national synchrotron facility - the Diamond Light Source near Oxford - is to become a world centre for studying the structure of viruses and bacteria that cause serious disease.

The Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxford is to receive more than half a billion pounds to upgrade and expand its scientific capabilities. Running on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus ...

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Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. By accelerating electrons to near light-speed, Diamond ...

Specifically, the defects in the diamond act as spin-photon interfaces, which means they can connect quantum bits of information (stored in the spin of an electron) with particles of light.