The group used the beam to examine industrial diamonds in order to test their new collimator technology. They are using quality and synchrotron x-rays to map crystal imperfections in materials. Professor Moreton Moore from the group, who has spent much of his career studying imperfections in industrial diamonds, used the precious stones to test their purpose-built scanning x-ray microscope, which uses collimator equipment.

Professor Moore says: The technologies that we are working on will open up a latest kind of microscopy enabling us to use inflexible X-rays to look at a variety of samples, such as metals and minerals, and as well as insulators, without the need for a vacuuma. Industrial finished diamonds often contain small inclusions of metal that can be deposited during the synthesis process. The team from Royal Holloway separated out the defects by channelling hard x-rays at diamonds through their microscope.

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