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

48 citations · 219 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 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.mes-hall2026

Optical spin defect pairs in cubic boron nitride

Josiah E. Hsi, Islay O. Robertson, Abhijit Biswas +9

Room-temperature optically active solid-state spin defects are widely known to be useful in quantum sensing applications, however, only a select range of materials have been found…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Omnidirectional magnetic imaging of magnetic anisotropy and phase transitions

Alexander J Healey, Kaijian Xing, Weiyao Zhao +7

Micron scale imaging of magnetic fields is an important tool for understanding the evolution of magnetism through phase transitions and as a result of interactions inside of hetero…

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…

quant-ph2025

Generation of narrowband quantum emitters in hBN with optically addressable spins

Benjamin Whitefield, Helen Zhi Jie Zeng, James Liddle-Wesolowski +8

Electron spins coupled with optical transitions in solids stand out as a promising platform for developing spin-based quantum technologies. Recently, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)…

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.mtrl-sci2024★ 6 cited

A compact, portable device for microscopic magnetic imaging based on diamond quantum sensors

Alex Shaji, Kevin J. Rietwyk, Islay O. Robertson +3

Magnetic imaging based on ensembles of diamond nitrogen-vacancy quantum sensors has emerged as a useful technique for the spatial characterisation of magnetic materials and current…

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…

physics.app-ph2023★ 11 cited

Handheld device for non-contact thermometry via optically detected magnetic resonance of proximate diamond sensors

G. J. Abrahams, E. Ellul, I. O. Robertson +4

Optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) spectroscopy of defect-rich semiconductors is being increasingly exploited for realising a variety of practical quantum sensing devices…

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…

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…