A group of OSU physicists led by Professor Chris Hammel have discovered that diamond can transport spin in a way that could potentially be used in computing and challenges the way researchers have studied spin for the last 70 years. These findings have been published in the March 23 issue of NATURE Nanotechnology.  To learn more, read the press release at http://go.osu.edu/spindiamond or the full publication at  http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano.2014.39.html.

Congratulations to Professors P. Chris Hammel and Ciriyam Jayaprakash as well as Denis V. Pelekhov, director of NSL, and current and former students and postdocs Jeremy Cardellino, Nicolas Scozzaro, Michael Herman, Andrew J. Berger, Chi Zhang, Kin Chung Fong on this important discovery.  Their work is funded by the Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation, the Center for Emergent Materials, and the NanoSystems Laboratory.