Engineering the collapse of lifetime distribution of nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds

Li, Hao, Ou, Jun-Yu, Gholipour, Behrad, So, Jinkyu, Piccinotti, Davide, Fedotov, Vassili and Papasimakis, Nikitas (2021) Engineering the collapse of lifetime distribution of nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds. Applied Physics Letters, 118 (26), [261103]. (doi:10.1063/5.0054780).

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Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally that the distribution of the decay rates of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond becomes narrower by over five times for nanodiamonds embedded in thin chalcogenide films.

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Accepted/In Press date: 12 June 2021

e-pub ahead of print date: 29 June 2021

Published date: 29 June 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grants No. EP/M0091221), Nanyang Technological University Strategic Research Facilities Initiative and Singapore ASTAR QTE program (No. SERC A1685b0005), and China Scholarship Council (No. 201608440362). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Author(s). Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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