Photonic nano-structures on (111)-oriented diamond

Journal Article · Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4871580· OSTI ID:22262612

Neu, Elke; Appel, Patrick; Ganzhorn, Marc; Miguel-Sánchez, Javier; Maletinsky, Patrick ^[1]; Lesik, Margarita; Jacques, Vincent ^[2]; Mille, Vianney; Tallaire, Alexandre; Achard, Jocelyn ^[3]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel (Switzerland)
2. Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, F-91405 Orsay (France)
3. Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire des Sciences des Procédés et des Matériaux (CNRS UPR 3407), F-93430 Villetaneuse (France)

We demonstrate the fabrication of single-crystalline diamond nanopillars on a (111)-oriented chemical vapor deposited diamond substrate. This crystal orientation offers optimal coupling of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center emission to the nanopillar mode and is thus advantageous over previous approaches. We characterize single native NV centers in these nanopillars and find one of the highest reported saturated fluorescence count rates in single crystalline diamond in excess of 10{sup 6} counts per second. We show that our nano-fabrication procedure conserves the preferential alignment as well as the spin coherence of the NVs in our structures. Our results will enable a new generation of highly sensitive probes for NV magnetometry and pave the way toward photonic crystals with optimal orientation of the NV center's emission dipole.

• OSTI ID: 22262612
• Journal Information: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 15; Other Information: (c) 2014 Author(s); Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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