Ultrafast electronic readout of diamond nitrogen-vacancy centres coupled to graphene

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 135-139

  Brenneis, Andreas ^a,b   Gaudreau, Louis ^c   Seifert, Max ^a   Karl, Helmut ^d   Brandt, Martin S ^a   Huebl, Hans ^b,e   Garrido, Jose A ^a,b   Koppens, Frank H L ^c   Holleitner, Alexander W ^a,b  

^a WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b NANOSYSTEMS INITIATIVE MUNICH NIM   (Germany)

^c ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^e WALTHER MEISSNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDS; ELECTROSPINNING; ENERGY TRANSFER; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NITROGEN; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; ELECTRONIC READOUT; NITROGEN VACANCIES; NON-RADIATIVE; NONRADIATIVE ENERGY TRANSFER; OPTICAL EMITTER; PICOSECOND TIME; ULTRA-FAST;

GRAPHENE;

DIAMOND; GRAPHENE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXCITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84924403984     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.276     Document Type: Article

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