UAB opened its $75 million new science building on Thursday, and physicists are already set up to make diamonds in a basement lab.
On a grand opening tour of the new facility that’s now home to the Physics and Biology departments for the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a professor showed off several yellow synthetic diamonds made in the lab in the old Campbell Hall.
Vohra held up several samples of yellow diamond crystals made in UAB’s lab to show a tour group. “If you have a nitrogen impurity in a diamond, it will look yellow,” said Vohra, holding up several samples of yellow diamonds made in UAB’s lab. “If you have boron, it will look blue, like the Hope Diamond.”
The diamonds are also used in high-electron mobility semiconductors and other scientific applications. The equipment was moved in the new building two weeks ago. Biology and physics classes begin on Monday. “This world-class facility is designed to encourage conversation and collaboration among students and researchers across biology, chemistry, physics and, eventually, engineering,” said College of Arts and Sciences Dean Kecia M. Thomas. “Regardless of a student’s major, every student who fulfills a lab science requirement in one of those departments will have an opportunity to enjoy this incredible building.
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