Communication

Five-Nanometer Diamond with Luminescent Nitrogen-Vacancy Defect Centers†

  1. Bradley R. Smith1,
  2. David W. Inglis2,
  3. Bjornar Sandnes2,
  4. James R. Rabeau2,
  5. Andrei V. Zvyagin2,
  6. Daniel Gruber1,
  7. Christopher J. Noble3,
  8. Robert Vogel4,
  9. Eiji Ōsawa5,
  10. Taras Plakhotnik1,*

Article first published online: 30 MAR 2009

DOI: 10.1002/smll.200801802

Issue

Small

Small

Volume 5, Issue 14, pages 1649–1653, July 17, 2009

Additional Information

How to Cite

Smith, B. R., Inglis, D. W., Sandnes, B., Rabeau, J. R., Zvyagin, A. V., Gruber, D., Noble, C. J., Vogel, R., Ōsawa, E. and Plakhotnik, T. (2009), Five-Nanometer Diamond with Luminescent Nitrogen-Vacancy Defect Centers. Small, 5: 1649–1653. doi: 10.1002/smll.200801802

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Physics The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 (Australia)

  2. 2

    Department of Physics Maquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 (Australia)

  3. 3

    Centre for Magnetic Resonance The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 (Australia)

  4. 4

    Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 (Australia)

  5. 5

    NanoCarbon Research Institute AREC, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology Shinshu University 3-15-1 Tokita, Ueda, Nagano 386-8567 (Japan)

*Department of Physics The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 (Australia).

  1. †

    We would like to thank Prof. John Drennan, Prof. G. Hanson, and Dr. M. Ridgway for facilities and assistance, and Dr. H. C. Chang for valuable discussions. Financial support was provided by the FABLS network, UQ Enabling grant, and ARC grant DP0771676.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 30 JUL 2009
  2. Article first published online: 30 MAR 2009
  3. Manuscript Revised: 2 FEB 2009
  4. Manuscript Received: 3 DEC 2008

Funded by

  • FABLS network
  • UQ Enabling grant
  • ARC. Grant Number: DP0771676

SEARCH

SEARCH BY CITATION

ARTICLE TOOLS

View Full Article (HTML) Get PDF (308K)

Keywords:

  • diamonds;
  • EPR spectroscopy;
  • nanoparticles;
  • nitrogen vacancies;
  • photoluminescence
Thumbnail image of graphical abstract

Colored diamonds: Despite concerns that photostable luminescent nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers do not exist in 5-nm diamonds, time-resolved luminescence experiments on weakly bound clusters of such diamonds show that NV centers can be embedded (see picture). The efficiency of NV formation scales as the fifth power of the crystal radius.

View Full Article (HTML) Get PDF (308K)