Sentences with phrase «on diamond crystals»

Their focus over the past two years has been on diamond crystals and an impurity called a nitrogen - vacancy (NV) center, in which optical and spin degrees of freedom are coupled.

Not exact matches

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

The researchers performed hundreds of indentation tests on tiny olivine crystals less than a centimeter square and found that the olivine crystal became weaker as the size of the diamond tip increased.

To help with understanding the crystal structure, Steve Hackney, professor of materials science at Michigan Tech, was able to provide crucial high - resolution images and diffraction patterns using transmission electron microscopy on ultrathin samples prepared with a diamond knife by Owen Mills, director of Michigan Tech's Applied Chemical & Morphological Analysis Laboratory.

Disrupted oscillations The researchers focused on nitrogen — vacancy (NV) centers, imperfections in diamond that arise where an atom of nitrogen and an empty space replace carbon atoms at two neighboring spots in the crystal lattice.

Now, quantum physicist Oliver Benson and his colleagues at Humboldt University in Berlin have seen the effect in a diamond crystal — a material that would be easier to manufacture on a large scale for quantum computing.

X-ray spectroscopy helped to investigate the diamond crystals collected on the fields in Africa, China, Zaire and Sierra Leone, and to find in them microinclusions ordinary water ice, but in a rare cubic phase of ice VII.

Wear with a crystal maang tikka, diamond studs, and stacks of melodious glass bangles on both hands.

The actress trots out yet another insanely flattering dress (a Giambattista Valli Haute Couture mini with pale - pink crystal embellishments and a curtainlike skirt), perfect hair (shocking) and more major diamonds on the set of Le Grand Journal.

For example, if you wear a pearl necklace, decorate the nails in pearly shades, if you wear a diamond necklace or diamond earrings — apply on nails a crystal powder or crystals, etc..

The authentic watches have 11 encrusted diamonds on the dial while these replica watches have 11 Swarovski crystals.

On this car, the finish is diamond - patterned leather, interlaced with Swarovski crystals.

On the other hand, the Twingo Dynamique S features rather the same exterior colors, like Blaze Orange, Diamond or Crystal White, and Lunar Grey, adding Sport decal, or 16 - inch diamond - cut alloys.

When you can't get actual hands - on time with the rock, James Allen provides the next best thing — crystal - clear images, featuring 360 - degree interactive views that allow you to see the actual diamond you're purchasing.

There are limestone crystals sparkling on the walls like diamonds.

Your main objective is to collect all crystals / diamonds on the stage.

in Southampton opens in May by presenting the latest works by photographer Marco Glaviano featuring famous supermodels printed on canvas and hand coated with diamond dust crystals plus a limited edition color paper portfolio of 12 prints of Cindy Crawford.

Take, for example, Hirst's 2007 sculpture For the Love of God (a.k.a. the «Crystal Skull»), a platinum cast of a human cranium encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds: the piece was interpreted by some as a commentary on wretched excess in an art world awed by glamour and swimming in cash, but, whatever Hirst's satiric intention may have been, it was hard to detect in the asking price of # 50 million.

Feed Me Diamonds, 2014; Media: Ceramic (head), Peacock chair, papier - mâché, wire, marbled paper, wax, candles, wig, antlers, real and faux fur, shells, cards, press - on nails, flock, yarn, fake plants, crystals, feathers, sand, spices, dice, money; 6 x 8 x 6 feet

But after Lehman Brothers crashed and burned last fall, even the wealthiest cut back on diamonds and caviar, as well as the evening dresses to go with the jewels and the crystal for the caviar.