Effect of Low-Damage Inductively Coupled Plasma on Shallow NV Centers in Diamond
| Autor: | de Oliveira, Felipe Fávaro, Momenzadeh, S. Ali, Wang, Ya, Konuma, Mitsuharu, Markham, Matthew, Edmonds, Andrew M., Denisenko, Andrej, Wrachtrup, Jörg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Applied Physics Letters 107, 073107 (2015) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.4929356 |
| Popis: | Near-surface nitrogen-vacancy ({NV}) centers in diamond have been successfully employed as atomic-sized magnetic field sensors for external spins over the last years. A key challenge is still to develop a method to bring NV centers at nanometer proximity to the diamond surface while preserving their optical and spin properties. To that aim we present a method of controlled diamond etching with nanometric precision using an oxygen inductively coupled plasma (ICP) process. Importantly, no traces of plasma-induced damages to the etched surface could be detected by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and confocal photoluminescence microscopy techniques. In addition, by profiling the depth of NV centers created by 5.0 keV of nitrogen implantation energy, no plasma-induced quenching in their fluorescence could be observed. Moreover, the developed etching process allowed even the channeling tail in their depth distribution to be resolved. Furthermore, treating a 12C isotopically purified diamond revealed a threefold increase in T2 times for NV centers with <4 nm of depth (measured by NMR signal from protons at the diamond surface) in comparison to the initial oxygen-terminated surface. Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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