An imperfect diamond is perfect for sensing Earth’s magnetic field from space. A quantum device used a diamond’s defects to map Earth’s magnetic field from the International Space Station. Just 10 ...

On Monday afternoon President Donald Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe hinted at technology that had helped locate a downed American Air Force officer hiding in a mountain crevice in southern Iran ...

SBQuantum magnetometers use use green lasers to excite nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond to a higher-energy state. Credit: SBQuantum SAN FRANCISCO – Canadian startup SBQuantum plans to send a ...

From ancient compasses to modern smartphones, magnetometers have quietly shaped how we sense and navigate the world. Let us explore the fundamentals behind these field-detecting devices. Magnetic ...

The researchers fabricated chip-based interferometers (pictured) to measure how light propagating through a magneto-optic material changed in response to a magnetic field. WASHINGTON — Researchers ...

SBQuantum's measures local magnetic field vectors by applying laser and microwaves to a synthetic diamond in its compact magnetometer. Credit: SBQuantum SAN FRANCISCO – Canada’s SBQuantum has won an ...

Fraunhofer IAF presented the latest version of its compact integrated quantum magnetometer at World of Quantum in Munich. The diamond-based system is characterized by its robustness, high integration ...

As the nation's capital cleans up from the culmination of World Pride this past weekend, focus now shifts to a very different massive event — Saturday's military parade to honor the 250th birthday of ...

The tree diagram shows three perspectives for evaluating the sensitivity limits (green leaves). These perspectives are interconnected (red dashed lines) and are constrained by fundamental principles ...

The public is enamored of images returned to Earth by space probes. Whether they show the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, or the icy surface of Pluto, these captivating images garner loads of ...

This is a CircuitPython library for interacting with the CMPS12 sensor, a tilt-compensated digital compass that utilizes a 3-axis magnetometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis accelerometer. The library ...

Have you ever wondered how a magnetometer works? We sure have, which was why we were happy to stumble upon this article on simple homebrew fluxgate magnetometers. As [Maurycy] explains, clues to how a ...