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- Title
- Observation and control of blinking nitrogen-vacancy centres in discrete nanodiamonds
- Related
- Nature nanotechnology, Vol. 5, No. 5, (2010), p.345-349
- DOI
- 10.1038/NNANO.2010.56
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Date
- 2010
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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090400 Chemical Engineering
091200 Materials Engineering
030300 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry
- Author/Creator
- Bradac, C
- Author/Creator
- Gaebel, T
- Author/Creator
- Naidoo, N
- Author/Creator
- Sellars, M. J
- Author/Creator
- Twamley, J
- Author/Creator
- Brown, L. J
- Author/Creator
- Barnard, A. S
- Author/Creator
- Plakhotnik, T
- Author/Creator
- Zvyagin, A. V
- Author/Creator
- Rabeau, J. R
- Description
- Nitrogen-vacancy colour centres in diamond can undergo strong, spin-sensitive optical transitions under ambient conditions, which makes them attractive for applications in quantum optics, nanoscale magnetometry and biolabelling. Although nitrogen-vacancy centres have been observed in aggregated detonation nanodiamonds and milled nanodiamonds, they have not been observed in very small isolated nanodiamonds. Here, we report the first direct observation of nitrogen-vacancy centres in discrete 5-nm nanodiamonds at room temperature, including evidence for intermittency in the luminescence (blinking) from the nanodiamonds. We also show that it is possible to control this blinking by modifying the surface of the nanodiamonds.
- Description
- 5 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 090400 Chemical Engineering
- Subject Keyword
- 091200 Materials Engineering
- Subject Keyword
- 030300 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry
- Subject Keyword
- nanodiamond
- Subject Keyword
- nitrogen vacancy
- Subject Keyword
- blinking
- Subject Keyword
- quantum optics
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/132283
- Identifier
- ISSN:1748-3387
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2009011252
- Language
- eng
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