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Five‐Nanometer Diamond with Luminescent Nitrogen‐Vacancy Defect Centers
Author(s) -
Smith Bradley R.,
Inglis David W.,
Sandnes Bjornar,
Rabeau James R.,
Zvyagin Andrei V.,
Gruber Daniel,
Noble Christopher J.,
Vogel Robert,
Ōsawa Eiji,
Plakhotnik Taras
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.200801802
Subject(s) - luminescence , diamond , vacancy defect , materials science , nanometre , nitrogen , radius , crystal (programming language) , chemical physics , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , crystallography , chemistry , metallurgy , computer security , organic chemistry , computer science , programming language , composite material
Colored diamonds : Despite concerns that photostable luminescent nitrogen‐vacancy (NV) centers do not exist in 5‐nm diamonds, time‐resolved luminescence experiments on weakly bound clusters of such diamonds show that NV centers can be embedded (see picture). The efficiency of NV formation scales as the fifth power of the crystal radius.