Electrical stimulation of non-classical photon emission from diamond color centers by means of sub-superficial graphitic electrodes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Forneris, Jacopo ^a   Traina, Paolo ^b   Monticone, Daniele Gatto ^a   Amato, Giampiero ^b   Boarino, Luca ^b   Brida, Giorgio ^b   Degiovanni, Ivo P ^b   Enrico, Emanuele ^b   Moreva, Ekaterina ^b   Grilj, Veljko ^c   Skukan, Natko ^c   Jakšić, Milko ^c   Genovese, Marco ^b   Olivero, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

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EID: 84946146593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15901     Document Type: Article

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