Nanoscale magnetic sensing with an individual electronic spin in diamond

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7213, 2008, Pages 644-647

  Maze, J R ^a   Stanwix, P L ^b   Hodges, J S ^a,c   Hong, S ^a   Taylor, J M ^d   Cappellaro, P ^a,b   Jiang, L ^a   Dutt, M V Gurudev ^e   Togan, E ^a   Zibrov, A S ^a   Yacoby, A ^a   Walsworth, R L ^a,b   Lukin, M D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; NANOCRYSTAL;

DIAMOND; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NITROGEN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NANOANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 53349117676     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07279     Document Type: Article

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