On Sat, 11 May 2013 13:50:23 -0700 Brooke Clarke <bro...@pacific.net> wrote:
> The first article at R&D magazine cites another article in Nature, but it's a > $ article. > http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/05/flawed-diamonds-promise-sensory-perfection > > Solid-state electronic spin coherence time approaching one second > http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n4/full/ncomms2771.html Has anyone seen/heard about something similar done with silicon or silicon oxide? I guess that a silicon/si-ox based system would be a lot cheaper to produce, given todays semiconductor industry. The only thing i could dig out that goes into this direction is [1]. But that looks at it from a quantum computing point of view. I guess silicon cannot be used the way diamond is used (ie using a double resonance system) because it's not transparent, and probably too metallic already. Silicon oxide on the other hand is transparent and a very good isolator, hence the electrons would be confined to their atoms. But googling for "silicon oxide", "defects" and "spectroscopy" i only get results from defects assesment in the semiconductor production. Attila Kinali [1] "Atomic clock transitions in silicon-based spin qubits", by Wolfowicz et all, 2013, http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6567 -- The people on 4chan are like brilliant psychologists who also happen to be insane and gross. -- unknown _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
