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World's Smallest Diamond Ring Created by Australian Scientists

Mar 17 2008

LiveScience is reporting an announcement by the American Physical Society that scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia have created the world's smallest diamond ring.

The world's smallest diamond ring. Credit: Steven Prawer, University of Melbourne

The ring is a component in a device for producing and detecting single photons, or particles of light, and measures only 5 microns in diameter and 300 nanometers in thickness.

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