Observation and control of blinking nitrogen-vacancy centres in discrete nanodiamonds

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 345-349

  Bradac, C ^a   Gaebel, T ^a   Naidoo, N ^a   Sellars, M J ^b   Twamley, J ^a   Brown, L J ^a   Barnard, A S ^c   Plakhotnik, T ^d   Zvyagin, A V ^a   Rabeau, J R ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR CENTERS; LIGHT; NITROGEN; QUANTUM OPTICS;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; DETONATION NANODIAMONDS; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; INTERMITTENCY; NANO SCALE; NITROGEN VACANCIES;

NANODIAMONDS;

DIAMOND; NANOCRYSTAL; NITROGEN; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; LUMINESCENCE; NANOANALYSIS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77952276594     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.56     Document Type: Article

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