Local formation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond by swift heavy ions

Schwartz, J.; Aloni, S.; Ogletree, D. F.; Tomut, M.; Bender, M.; Severin, D.; Trautmann, C.; Rangelow, I. W.; Schenkel, T.

doi:10.1063/1.4903075

Title: Local formation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond by swift heavy ions

Journal Article · Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2014 · Journal of Applied Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4903075· OSTI ID:1407217

Schwartz, J. ^[1]; Aloni, S. ^[2]; Ogletree, D. F. ^[2];

^[3]; Bender, M. ^[3]; Severin, D. ^[3]; Trautmann, C. ^[4]; Rangelow, I. W. ^[5]; Schenkel, T. ^[6]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division; Ilmenau Univ. of Technology (Germany). Dept. of Microelectronics and Nanoelectric Systems
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). The Molecular Foundry
GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt (Germany)
GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt (Germany); Technical Univ. of Darmstadt (Germany)
Ilmenau Univ. of Technology (Germany). Dept. of Microelectronics and Nanoelectric Systems
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division

In this paper, we exposed nitrogen-implanted diamonds to beams of swift heavy ions (~1 GeV, ~4 MeV/u) and find that these irradiations lead directly to the formation of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers, without thermal annealing. We compare the photoluminescence intensities of swift heavy ion activated NV^- centers to those formed by irradiation with low-energy electrons and by thermal annealing. NV^- yields from irradiations with swift heavy ions are 0.1 of yields from low energy electrons and 0.02 of yields from thermal annealing. We discuss possible mechanisms of NV center formation by swift heavy ions such as electronic excitations and thermal spikes. While forming NV centers with low efficiency, swift heavy ions could enable the formation of three dimensional NV^- assemblies over relatively large distances of tens of micrometers. Finally and further, our results show that NV center formation is a local probe of (partial) lattice damage relaxation induced by electronic excitations from swift heavy ions in diamond.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); LBNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1407217

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1226578

Journal Information:: Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 116, Issue 21; ISSN 0021-8979

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