Besides being a most beautiful gem, diamond has enormous potential as a laboratory for new physics and as a host material for remarkable high-tech industrial applications.
Ultra pure and very low internal strain synthetic diamond produced by Element 6 and processed by M Rebak (Wits) for ESRF
4 mutually fine-aligned (100) diamond radiators by coherent bremsstrahlung (100 GeV electrons) for the NA59 experiment at CERN
