Output details
15 - General Engineering
Swansea University
Article title
Five-Nanometer Diamond with Luminescent Nitrogen-Vacancy Defect Centers
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Small
Article number
-
Volume number
5
Issue number
14
First page of article
1649
ISSN of journal
1613-6810
Year of publication
2009
URL
-
Number of additional authors
9
Additional information
The paper demonstrated for the first time the existence of luminescent Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centres in nanodiamond particles as small as 5 nm. This result was surprising and important as there was growing concern in the science community that inherent physical barriers prevented formation of such colour centres. NV centres were generated by proton irradiation, and quantified using spectral and time-gated luminescence detection. A simple model explained the statistics of NV formation probability versus size. Sub-10 nm luminescent nanodiamonds are of considerable interest for biomedical applications and quantum technologies.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
D - Centre for Complex Fluid Processing
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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