Structural and optical properties of micro-diamonds with SiV color centers

Fabio Isa, Matthew Joliffe, Brendan Wouterlood, Naomi He Ho, Thomas Volz, Avi Bendavid, Lachlan J. Rogers*

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Abstract

Isolated, micro-metre sized diamonds are grown by micro-wave plasma chemical vapour deposition technique on Si(001) substrates. Each diamond is uniquely identified by markers milled in the Si substrate by Ga+ focused ion beam. The morphology and micro-grain structure analysis, indicates that the diamonds are icosahedral or bi-crystals. Icosahedral diamonds have higher (up to σh = 2.3 GPa), and wider distribution ( Δσh = 4.47 GPa) of hydrostatic stress built up at the micro-crystal grain boundaries, compared to the other crystals. The number and spectral shape of SiV colour centres incorporated in the micro-diamonds (MDs) is analysed, and estimated by means of temperature dependent photoluminescence measurements, and Monte Carlo simulations. The Monte Carlo simulations indicates that the number of SiV colour centres is a few thousand per MD.

Original languageEnglish
Article number505302
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Physics Condensed Matter
Volume35
Issue number50
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Dec 2023

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Keywords

  • colour centre
  • micro-diamonds
  • optical
  • silicon-vacancy
  • structure

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