Exploring New Diamond Surfaces with Precision Chemistry and Quantum Spectroscopy
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Point defects in diamond known as color centers are a promising platform for quantum sensing. As atom-like systems, they can exhibit excellent spin coherence and can be manipulated with light. As solid-state defects, they can be produced at high densities and be incorporated into scalable devices. Diamond is a uniquely excellent host; it has a large band gap, can be synthesized with sub-ppb impurity concentrations, and can be isotopically purified to eliminate magnetic noise from nuclear spins. Specifically, the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center has been demonstrated to be a highly sensitive, non-invasive magnetic probe capable of resolving the magnetic field of a single electron spin with nanometer spatial resolution. However, the development of NV centers and other color centers in diamond as a quantum platform crucially relies on developing methods to functionalize and process diamond surfaces. Diamond is the hardest material, making polishing and processing challenging, and diamond surfaces are inert and sterically hindered, making them notoriously difficult to chemically terminate and functionalize. Our approach is to discover new surface chemistries for diamond by combining multimodal surface spectroscopy with NV-based quantum spectroscopy to carefully characterize the diamond surface. We have developed a suite of techniques for characterizing the diamond surface using rapid tools for reaction screening and detailed surface spectroscopy tools for definitive identification of the surface bonding.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0018978
- OSTI ID:
- 2350751
- Report Number(s):
- Final-technical--report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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