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Five-Nanometer Diamond with Luminescent Nitrogen-Vacancy Defect Centers
Bradley R Smith,
David W Inglis,
Bjornar Sandnes ,
James R Rabeau,
Andrei V Zvyagin,
Daniel Gruber,
Christopher J Noble,
Robert Vogel,
Eiji Ōsawa,
Taras Plakhotnik
Small, Volume: 5, Issue: 14, Pages: 1649 - 1653
Swansea University Author: Bjornar Sandnes
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DOI (Published version): 10.1002/smll.200801802
Abstract
Five-Nanometer Diamond with Luminescent Nitrogen-Vacancy Defect Centers
Published in: | Small |
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ISSN: | 1613-6810 1613-6829 |
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2009
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URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13097 |
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The paper demonstrated for the first time the existence of luminescent Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centres in nanodiamond particles as small as 5 nm. This result was surprising and important as there was growing concern in the science community that inherent physical barriers prevented formation of such colour centres. NV centres were generated by proton irradiation, and quantified using spectral and time-gated luminescence detection. A simple model explained the statistics of NV formation probability versus size. Sub-10 nm luminescent nanodiamonds are of considerable interest for biomedical applications and quantum technologies. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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14 |
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1649 |
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1653 |