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Home » Optics and photonics » Detectors and sensors » Diamond magnetometer could help shrink computer hard drives

Diamond magnetometer could help shrink computer hard drives

27 Sep 2016 Isabelle Dumé
Photomontage of a diamond and a hard-drive head
NV sensor: photomontage of a diamond and a hard-drive head. (Courtesy: I Jakobi)
A nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect in diamond has been used to create a magnetometer that can measure th

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