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most citedMicroscopic imaging of elastic deformation in diamond via in-situ stress tensor sensors

88 citations · 156 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Persistence and emergence of quantum defects through pressure-induced phase changes

Alexander J Healey, Alan Salek, Christopher T-K Lew +15

Extreme pressures can transform materials and their properties, but probing these in-situ is made challenging by the small sample volumes and access requirements demanded by diamon…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Nitrogen-vacancy centre formation via local femto-second laser annealing of diamond

Davin Yue Ming Peng, Alexander J Healey, Rebecca Griffin +7

Emerging quantum technologies based on the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond require carefully engineered material with controlled defect density, optimised NV formation proc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 10 cited

The color center: a ubiquitous visible and near-infrared-II quantum emitter in nitrogen-doped diamond

Brett C. Johnson, Mitchell O. de Vries, Alexander J. Healey +13

Photoluminescent defects in diamond, like the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center, are at the forefront of emerging optical quantum technologies. Most emit in the visible and near-i…

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.mtrl-sci2024

3D-mapping and manipulation of photocurrent in an optoelectronic diamond device

A. A. Wood, D. J. McCloskey, N. Dontschuk +10

Characterising charge transport in a material is central to the understanding of its electrical properties, and can usually only be inferred from bulk measurements of derived quant…

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…

quant-ph2021★ 1 cited

Creation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in chemical vapor deposition diamond for sensing applications

T. Luo, L. Lindner, J. Langer +12

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a promising quantum system for magnetometry applications exhibiting optical readout of minute energy shifts in its spin sub-levels. K…

physics.app-ph2020★ 25 cited

Comparison of different methods of nitrogen-vacancy layer formation in diamond for widefield quantum microscopy

A. J. Healey, A. Stacey, B. C. Johnson +5

Thin layers of near-surface nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defects in diamond substrates are the workhorse of NV-based widefield magnetic microscopy, which has applications in physics, geol…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 88 cited

Microscopic imaging of elastic deformation in diamond via in-situ stress tensor sensors

D. A. Broadway, B. C. Johnson, M. S. J. Barson +12

The precise measurement of mechanical stress at the nanoscale is of fundamental and technological importance. In principle, all six independent variables of the stress tensor, whic…