Researchers Create Diamond “Wires” That Could Power Future Computers
25th March 2014
Physicists at Ohio State University have successfully sent an electron “down” a wire made of diamond, a first that could mean new methods of transferring data inside computer chips. As you can imagine, these aren’t wires in a traditional sense in that they conduct electricity. Instead, the physicists were able to pass a magnetic spin effect down the wire “like a row of sports spectators doing ‘the wave.’” Spin has long been seen as the solution to passing data via quantum computers and the researchers found that diamond transmitted the signals better than metal.