Abstract
Sintered oriented nanodiamond arrays with the extremely high concentrations of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers (up to 103 ppm) were investigated by the W-band (94 GHz) electron spin echo electron paramagnetic resonance techniques. The NV centers were fabricated by the high-pressure high-temperature sintering of detonation nanodiamonds (DND) without the post or prior irradiation of the samples. The processes of polarization and recovery of the equilibrium population of the spin sublevels by optical and microwave pulses have been examined at room temperature in high magnetic fields corresponding to the fine-structure transitions for the NV defects at 94 GHz (3,250–3,450 mT). A long spin coherence time of 1.6 μs and spin–lattice relaxation time of 1.7 ms were measured. The results were compared with those obtained on the NV centers fabricated by the irradiation and subsequent annealing of the commercially available bulk diamonds. It was shown that the relaxation characteristics of the NV defects were similar in the both types of the samples despite the extremely high concentrations of NV defects and isolated nitrogen donors in the sintered DND.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
G. Davies, M.F. Hamer, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 348, 285 (1976)
A. Gruber, A. Dräbenstedt, C. Tietz, L. Fleury, J. Wrachtrup, C. von Borczyskowski, Science 276, 2012–2014 (1997)
F. Jelezko, I. Popa, A. Gruber, C. Tietz, J. Wrachtrup, S. Kilin, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 2160 (2002)
A.P. Nizovtsev, S. Ya Kilin, F. Jelezko, I. Popa, A. Gruber, J. Wrachtrup, Phys. B Condens. Matter 340–342, 106–110 (2003)
G. Balasubramanian, I.Y. Chan, R. Kolesov, M. Al-Hmoud, J. Tisler, C. Shin, C. Kim, A. Wojcik, P.R. Hemmer, A. Krueger, T. Hanke, A. Leitenstorfer, R. Bratschitsch, F. Jelezko, J. Wrachtrup, Nat. Lett. 455, 648–651 (2008)
J.R. Maze, P.L. Stanwix, J.S. Hodges, S. Hong, J.M. Taylor, P. Cappellaro, L. Jiang, M.V. Gurudev Dutt, E. Togan, A.S. Zibrov, A. Yacoby, R.L. Walsworth, M.D. Lukin, Nature 455, 644–647 (2008)
J.M. Taylor, P. Cappellaro, L. Childress, L. Jiang, D. Budker, P.R. Hemmer, A. Yacoby, R. Walsworth, M.D. Lukin, Nat. Phys. 4, 810–816 (2008)
P.-H. Chung, E. Perevedentseva, J.-S. Tu, C.C. Chang, C.-L. Cheng, Diam. Relat. Mater. 15, 622–625 (2006)
Y.-R. Chang, H-Y Lee, K. Chen, C.-C. Chang, D.-S. Tsai, C.-C. FU, T.-S. Lim, Y.-K. Tzeng, C.-Y. Fang, C.-C. HAN, H.-C. Chang, W. Fann, Nat. Nanotechnol. 3, 284–288 (2008)
T.M. Babinec, B.J.M. Hausmann, M. Khan, Y. Zhang, J.R. Maze, P.R. Hemmer, M. Loncar, Nat. Nanotechnol. 5, 195–199 (2010)
J. Wrachtrup, F. Jelezko, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 18, 807–824 (2006)
J.-P. Boudou, P.A. Curmi, F. Jelezko, J. Wrachtrup, P. Aubert, M. Sennour, G. Balasubramanian, R. Reuter, A. Thorel, E. Gaffet, Nanotechnology 20, 235602 (2009)
J. Tisler, G. Balasubramanian, B. Naydenov, R. Kolesov, B. Grotz, R. Reuter, J.-P. Boudou, P.A. Curmi, M. Sennour, A. Thorel, M. Börsch, K. Aulenbacher, R. Erdmann, P.R. Hemmer, F. Jelezko, J. Wrachtrup, ACS Nano 3, 1959–1965 (2009)
P.G. Baranov, A.A. Soltamova, D.O. Tolmachev, N.G. Romanov, R.A. Babunts, F.M. Shakhov, S.V. Kidalov, A.Y. Vul’, G.V. Mamin, S.B. Orlinski, N.I. Silkin, Small 7, 1533–1537 (2011)
R.A. Babunts, A.A. Soltamova, D.O. Tolmachev, V.A. Soltamov, A.S. Gurin, A.N. Anisimov, V.L. Preobrazhenskii, P.G. Baranov, JETP Lett. 95, 429 (2012)
K.M. Salikhov, Y.D. Tsvetkov, in Time Domain Electron Spin Resonance, ed. by L. Kevan, R.N. Schwartz (Wiley, New York, 1979), pp. 231–277
G.G. Fedoruk, Transient nutation EPR spectroscopy of condensed media. J. Appl. Spectr. 69, 161–182 (2002)
S.T. Ochsenbein, D.R. Gamelin, Nat. Nanotechnol. 6, 112 (2011)
R.M. Rakhmatullin, I.N. Kurkin, G.V. Mamin, S.B. Orlinskii, M.R. Gafurov, E.I. Baibekov, B.Z. Malkin, S. Gambarelli, S. Bertaina, B. Barbara, Phys. Rev. B 79, 172408 (2009)
E. Baibekov, I. Kurkin, M. Gafurov, B. Endeward, R. Rakhmatullin, G. Mamin, J. Magn. Reson. 209, 61–68 (2011)
Acknowledgments
Marat Gafurov is acknowledged for his help in the preparation of this paper for publication. This work has been supported by the Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Federation, under the Contracts No. 16.513.12.3007, No. 8017 and No. 8568; the Programs of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “Spin Phenomena in Solid State Nanostructures and Spintronics” and “Fundamentals of nanostructure and nanomaterial technologies”, by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under Grants nos. 13-02-00821 and 13-02-00802 and the NATO SFP program.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Yavkin, B.V., Mamin, G.V., Orlinskii, S.B. et al. Room Temperature High-Field Spin Dynamics of NV Defects in Sintered Diamonds. Appl Magn Reson 44, 1235–1244 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00723-013-0476-4
Received:
Revised:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00723-013-0476-4