Atomistic mechanism of perfect alignment of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
arXiv:1409.2573 · doi:10.1063/1.4904988
Abstract
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have attracted a great deal of attention because of their possible use in information processing and electromagnetic sensing technologies. We examined theatomistic generation mechanism for the NV defect aligned in the [111] direction of C(111) substrates. We found that N is incorporated in the C bilayers during the lateral growth arising from a sequence of kink propagation along the step edge down to [-1,-1,2]. As a result, the atomic configuration with the N-atom lone-pair pointing in the [111] direction is formed, which causes preferential alignment of NVs. Our model is consistent with recent experimental data for perfect NV alignment in C(111) substrates.
arXiv comment5 pages, 4 figures
References in corpus (11)
- Quantum ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
- The nitrogen-vacancy colour centre in diamond
- Nanometer scale quantum thermometry in a living cell
- Heralded entanglement between solid-state qubits separated by 3 meters
- Observation of coherent oscillation of a single nuclear spin and realization of a two-qubit conditional quantum gate
- Perfect alignment and preferential orientation of nitrogen-vacancy centers during CVD growth of diamond on (111) surfaces
- Production of oriented nitrogen-vacancy color centers in synthetic diamond
- Perfect preferential orientation of nitrogen-vacancy defects in a synthetic diamond sample
- Perfect selective alignment of nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond
- Enhanced metrology using preferential orientation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
- Alignment of the Diamond Nitrogen Vacancy Center by Strain Engineering
Cited by in corpus (15)
- Sensitivity Optimization for NV-Diamond Magnetometry
- Spin Readout Techniques of the Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond
- Single-molecule Scale Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
- High density NV sensing surface created via He^(+) ion implantation of (12)^C diamond
- Wide-Field Strain Imaging with Preferentially-Aligned Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Polycrystalline Diamond
- Non-flipping 13C spins in NV diamond: Hyperfine and Spatial Characteristics by DFT Simulation of the C510[NV]H252 Cluster
- Quantum Diamond Radio Frequency Signal Analyser based on Nitrogen-Vacancy centers
- Wide-field quantitative magnetic imaging of superconducting vortices using perfectly aligned quantum sensors
- Light Dark Matter Search with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamonds
- Decoration of growth sector boundaries with single nitrogen vacancy centres in as-grown single crystal HPHT synthetic diamond
- Nuclear Spin Metrology with Nitrogen Vacancy Center in Diamond for Axion Dark Matter Detection
- A strongly interacting, two-dimensional, dipolar spin ensemble in (111)-oriented diamond
- Theory of Field-Angle-Resolved Magnetoacoustic Resonance in Spin-Triplet Systems for Application to Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
- Preferential orientation of NV defects in CVD diamond films grown on (113) substrates
- Microscale Sensing with Strongly Interacting NV Ensembles at High Fields