Nitrogen in diamond

MNR Ashfold, JP Goss, BL Green, PW May… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen is ubiquitous in both natural and laboratory-grown diamond, but the number and
nature of the nitrogen-containing defects can have a profound effect on the diamond …

Unraveling sources of emission heterogeneity in Silicon Vacancy color centers with cryo-cathodoluminescence microscopy

DK Angell, S Li, H Utzat… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Diamond color centers have proven to be versatile quantum emitters and exquisite sensors
of stress, temperature, electric and magnetic fields, and biochemical processes. Among …

Methods for Color Center Preserving Hydrogen‐Termination of Diamond

DJ McCloskey, D Roberts, LVH Rodgers… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical functionalization of diamond surfaces by hydrogen is an important method for
controlling the charge state of near‐surface fluorescent color centers, an essential process …

Influence of confinement and surface functionalization effects on fluorescent properties of the impurity–vacancy complexes in ultrasmall nanodiamonds

EA Ekimov, MV Kondrin - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2022 - Elsevier
We have done a thorough ab-initio research of vacancy–impurity complexes (including
nitrogen, silicon and germanium) in 0.65 nm thick diamond nanocrystal and compared the …

The influence of surface properties on colour centres in diamond

A Sadžak, A Krueger - Materials for Quantum Technology, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Colour centres in diamonds have attracted considerable interest for quantum sensing
applications. Boasting great photostability, long coherence times at room temperature and …

Prospects for detecting individual defect centers using spatially resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy

D Kordahl, LWQ Xu, SLY Chang, C Dwyer - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We consider the prospects of locating and characterizing individual defect centers in bulk
materials using electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) in a scanning transmission …

[LIVRE][B] Unraveling Atomic-Scale Quantum and Chemical Processes with Optically-Coupled Electron Microscopy

DK Angell - 2022 - search.proquest.com
As Feynman once famously said,” there's plenty of room at the bottom”-this simple statement
has proven true time and time again, with a large sector of the materials science community …

Excursions in Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy

D Kordahl - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Recent improvements in energy resolution for electron energy-loss spectroscopy in the
scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM-EELS) allow novel effects in the low-loss …