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Confocal luminescence study of nitrogen-vacancy distribution within nitrogen-rich single crystal CVD diamond

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Publication Date2015-11-23
JournalLaser Physics
AuthorsV. A. Shershulin, S R Samoylenko, Oleg S. Kudryavtsev, A. P. Bolshakov, E. E. Ashkinazi
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Confocal photoluminescence (PL) microscopy was used to study a distribution of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NVāˆ’) defects within a surface and in a cross section of a homoepitaxial chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond layer intentionally grown with a nitrogen concentration close to the solubility limit. A variation in the PL intensity within the whole sample was found to exceed no more than 30% of the intensity maximum. The diamond layers with densely packed NVāˆ’ arrays are a promising material platform for the design of highly sensitive magnetic field and temperature sensors, as well as for using this material in quantum optics and informatics technologies based on NVāˆ’ spins.