How carbon vacancies can affect the properties of group IV color centers in diamond: A study of thermodynamics and kinetics

Rodrick Kuate Defo, Efthimios Kaxiras, Steven L. Richardson

Recently there has been much interest in using Group IV elements from the Periodic Table to fabricate and study X$V$ color centers in diamond where X = Si, Ge, Sn, or Pb and $V$ is…