Emission and nonradiative decay of nanodiamond NV centers in a low refractive index environment

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3833-3843

  Inam, Faraz A ^a   Grogan, Michael D W ^b,c   Rollings, Mathew ^b   Gaebel, Torsten ^a   Say, Jana M ^a   Bradac, Carlo ^a   Birks, Tim A ^b   Wadsworth, William J ^b   Castelletto, Stefania ^a   Rabeau, James R ^a   Steel, Michael J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aerogel environment; diamond NV center; quantum efficiency; single center emission; single photon source; spontaneous emission rate

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; NV CENTER; SINGLE-PHOTON DEVICES; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATES; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT;

DIAMONDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA GEL;

NANODIAMONDS;

EID: 84878286723     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304202g     Document Type: Article

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