Creation of high density ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy centers in nitrogen-rich type Ib nanodiamonds

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 31, 2013, Pages

  Su, Long Jyun ^a   Fang, Chia Yi ^a,b   Chang, Yu Tang ^a,b   Chen, Kuan Ming ^c   Yu, Yueh Chung ^c   Hsu, Jui Hung ^d   Chang, Huan Cheng ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND POWDERS; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE INFRARED FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPIES; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; MONOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND; NEGATIVELY CHARGED; NITROGEN-VACANCY CENTER; PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES;

BALL MILLING; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIAMONDS; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NITROGEN; VACANCIES;

NANODIAMONDS;

DIAMOND; NANODIAMOND; NITROGEN; POWDER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOMEDICINE; POWDER;

DIAMOND; FLUORESCENCE; NANODIAMONDS; NANOMEDICINE; NITROGEN; POWDERS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84880313074     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/31/315702     Document Type: Article

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