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20192026
most citedImproved current density and magnetisation reconstruction through vector magnetic field measurements

82 citations · 453 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

physics.optics2026

Sub-microsecond conformational dynamics in an optical nanocavity

Heehun Sung, Sam C Scholten, Pavlina Sasheva +2

Microsecond conformational changes underlie many protein functions, but ensemble averaging has been needed to observe them without labels. Single-shot measurements on individual pr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Spin-dependent photoluminescence in carbon-based quantum dots

Erin S. Grant, Joseph F. Olorunyomi, Sam C. Scholten +12

The ability to modulate the photoluminescence (PL) of nanomaterials via spin-related effects is vital for many emerging quantum technologies, with nanoscale quantum sensing and ima…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Optically detected magnetic resonance of wafer-scale hexagonal boron nitride thin films

Sam C. Scholten, Jakub Iwański, Kaijian Xing +15

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently been shown to host native defects exhibiting optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) with applications in nanoscale magnetic sensing…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 1 cited

Imaging magnetic switching in orthogonally twisted stacks of a van der Waals antiferromagnet

Alexander J Healey, Cheng Tan, Boris Gross +9

Stacking van der Waals magnets holds promise for creating new hybrid materials with properties that do not exist in bulk materials. Here we investigate orthogonally twisted stacks…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 6 cited

Radiofrequency receiver based on isotropic solid-state spins

Islay O. Robertson, Brett C. Johnson, Giannis Thalassinos +5

Optically addressable solid-state spins have been proposed as robust radiofrequency (RF)-optical transducers sensitive to a specific RF frequency tuned by an external static magnet…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 14 cited

Violet to near-infrared optical addressing of spin pairs in hexagonal boron nitride

Priya Singh, Islay O. Robertson, Sam C. Scholten +9

Optically addressable solid-state spins are an important platform for practical quantum technologies. Van der Waals material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a promising host as it…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 10 cited

Towards high spatial resolution magnetic imaging with a compact practical quantum diamond microscope

Kevin J. Rietwyk, Alex Shaji, Islay O. Robertson +6

Widefield quantum diamond microscopy is a powerful technique for imaging magnetic fields with high sensitivity and spatial resolution. However, current methods to approach the ulti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 2 cited

A charge transfer mechanism for optically addressable solid-state spin pairs

Islay O. Robertson, Benjamin Whitefield, Sam C. Scholten +9

Optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) with no resolvable zero-field splitting has been observed from emitters in hexagonal boron nitride across a broad range of wavelengths,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 10 cited

Optimisation of electron irradiation for creating spin ensembles in hexagonal boron nitride

Alexander J Healey, Priya Singh, Islay O Robertson +9

Boron vacancy centre () ensembles in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have attracted recent interest for their potential as two-dimensional solid-state quantum sensors. I…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 6 cited

Stray magnetic field imaging of thin exfoliated iron halides flakes

Fernando Meneses, Rongrong Qi, Alexander J. Healey +8

Magnetic van der Waals materials are often proposed for use in future spintronic devices, aiming to leverage the combination of long-range magnetic order and near-atomic thinness t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 48 cited

Multi-species optically addressable spin defects in a van der Waals material

Sam C. Scholten, Priya Singh, Alexander J. Healey +11

Optically addressable spin defects hosted in two-dimensional van der Waals materials represent a new frontier for quantum technologies, promising to lead to a new class of ultrathi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 41 cited

Detection of paramagnetic spins with an ultrathin van der Waals quantum sensor

Islay O. Robertson, Sam C. Scholten, Priya Singh +8

Detecting magnetic noise from small quantities of paramagnetic spins is a powerful capability for chemical, biochemical, and medical analysis. Quantum sensors based on optically ad…

cond-mat.other2022★ 5 cited

On the creation of near-surface nitrogen-vacancy centre ensembles by implantation of type Ib diamond

A. J. Healey, S. C. Scholten, A. Nadarajah +5

Dense, near-surface (within 10 nm) ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond are rapidly moving into prominence as the workhorse of a variety of envisaged applications,…

physics.optics2022★ 9 cited

Aberration control in quantitative widefield quantum microscopy

S. C. Scholten, I. O. Robertson, G. J. Abrahams +3

Widefield quantum microscopy based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond has emerged as a powerful technique for quantitative mapping of magnetic fields with a sub-micron res…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 15 cited

Imaging current control of magnetization in FeGeTe with a widefield nitrogen-vacancy microscope

Islay O. Robertson, Cheng Tan, Sam C. Scholten +6

Van der Waals (vdW) magnets are appealing candidates for realising spintronic devices that exploit current control of magnetization (e.g. switching or domain wall motion), but so f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 16 cited

Varied magnetic phases in a van der Waals easy-plane antiferromagnet revealed by nitrogen-vacancy center microscopy

A. J. Healey, S. Rahman, S. C. Scholten +7

Interest in van der Waals materials often stems from a desire to miniaturise existing technologies by exploiting their intrinsic layered structure to create near atomically-thin co…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 25 cited

Imaging current paths in silicon photovoltaic devices with a quantum diamond microscope

S. C. Scholten, G. J. Abrahams, B. C. Johnson +11

Magnetic imaging with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, also known as quantum diamond microscopy, has emerged as a useful technique for the spatial mapping of charge currents in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 3 cited

Quantum microscopy with van der Waals heterostructures

A. J. Healey, S. C. Scholten, T. Yang +10

Quantum microscopes based on solid-state spin quantum sensors have recently emerged as powerful tools for probing material properties and physical processes in regimes not accessib…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 17 cited

An Integrated Widefield Probe for Practical Diamond Nitrogen-Vacancy Microscopy

G. J. Abrahams, S. C. Scholten, A. J. Healey +7

The widefield diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) microscope is a powerful instrument for imaging magnetic fields. However, a key limitation impeding its wider adoption is its complex op…

physics.app-ph2021★ 3 cited

Widefield quantum microscopy with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond: strengths, limitations, and prospects

S. C. Scholten, A. J. Healey, I. O. Robertson +3

A dense layer of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers near the surface of a diamond can be interrogated in a widefield optical microscope to produce spatially resolved maps of local quant…

physics.app-ph2020★ 82 cited

Improved current density and magnetisation reconstruction through vector magnetic field measurements

D. A. Broadway, S. E. Lillie, Sam C. Scholten +5

Stray magnetic fields contain significant information about the electronic and magnetic properties of condensed matter systems. For two-dimensional (2D) systems, stray field measur…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 80 cited

Imaging domain reversal in an ultrathin van der Waals ferromagnet

David A. Broadway, Sam C. Scholten, Cheng Tan +12

The recent isolation of two-dimensional van der Waals magnetic materials has uncovered rich physics that often differs from the magnetic behaviour of their bulk counterparts. Howev…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 60 cited

Laser modulation of superconductivity in a cryogenic widefield nitrogen-vacancy microscope

Scott E. Lillie, David A. Broadway, Nikolai Dontschuk +6

Microscopic imaging based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond, a tool increasingly used for room-temperature studies of condensed matter systems, has recently been extended…