Strain sensitivity and symmetry of 2.65 eV color center in diamond nanoscale needles
At a Glance
Section titled “At a Glance”| Metadata | Details |
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| Publication Date | 2019-04-08 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Authors | L. Venturi, Lorenzo Rigutti, Jonathan Houard, Ivan Blum, Sergei Malykhin |
| Institutions | Lomonosov Moscow State University, Groupe de Physique des Matériaux |
| Citations | 6 |
Abstract
Section titled “Abstract”Color centers in diamond have unique applications as nanoscale field sensors. In particular, in the case of strain field, they are key components for the realization of strain-coupled hybrid spin-oscillator systems. Here, we report on the strain sensitivity of the color center emitting at 2.65 eV in diamond nanoscale needles. By contactless piezo-spectroscopy, we compare the strain sensitivity of this center with that of the well-known neutral nitrogen-vacancy (NV0) center. We demonstrate that the 2.65 eV center has a higher strain sensitivity than the NV0 center and can be explored as a strain sensor and/or for strain-coupled systems. Moreover, we perform polarization-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy under a high uniaxial tensile stress and the polar behavior reported for the 2.65 eV center points out to a defect symmetry which is different from that of the NV0 center.