Diamond chips, in seven lessons
From "why diamond?" to "how big is the machine?". Each lesson has objectives, readings, a lab task, a notebook you can run in your browser, and a four-question check. About six hours in total; suitable for self-study or a one-month module.
Why diamond?
Explain why a larger bandgap and breakdown field matter for power and heat.
Start → Lesson 2 · 50 minPower switches
Read an on-resistance versus breakdown-voltage chart.
Start → Lesson 3 · 60 minTransistors, gates, and a diamond CPU
Explain an enhancement/depletion inverter and its static power.
Start → Lesson 4 · 50 minThe NV qubit
Read an ODMR spectrum and relate line splitting to magnetic field.
Start → Lesson 5 · 45 minTwo qubits and the real bottleneck
Estimate dipolar coupling and gate time from spacing.
Start → Lesson 6 · 60 minError correction and the size of the machine
Explain syndromes, matching, and threshold.
Start → Lesson 7 · 60 minBuilding it: the process traveler
Order a diamond process by its thermal budget.
Start →For instructors
Notebooks live in notebooks/ and open in Google Colab or GitHub Codespaces. Every quiz answer cites a source in the repository's reference database; the lesson content is one Python file, adamas/course.py, so it is easy to fork and adapt.