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Title: Voltage-driven, local, and efficient excitation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

Journal Article · · Science Advances
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  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program
  2. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States). Dept. of Physics
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Magnetic sensing technology has found widespread application in a diverse set of industries including transportation, medicine, and resource exploration. These uses often require highly sensitive instruments to measure the extremely small magnetic fields involved, relying on difficult-to-integrate superconducting quantum interference devices and spin-exchange relaxation-free magnetometers. A potential alternative, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, has shown great potential as a high-sensitivity and high-resolution magnetic sensor capable of operating in an unshielded, room-temperature environment. Transitioning NV center–based sensors into practical devices, however, is impeded by the need for high-power radio frequency (RF) excitation to manipulate them. We report an advance that combines two different physical phenomena to enable a highly efficient excitation of the NV centers: magnetoelastic drive of ferromagnetic resonance and NV-magnon coupling. Our work demonstrates a new pathway that combine acoustics and magnonics that enables highly energy-efficient and local excitation of NV centers without the need for any external RF excitation and, thus, could lead to completely integrated, on-chip, atomic sensors.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Office of the Director of National Intelligence; National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); US Army Research Office (ARO)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0014664; FA9550-13-l-0114; W911NF-16-1-0547
OSTI ID:
1625996
Journal Information:
Science Advances, Vol. 4, Issue 9; ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher:
AAASCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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