Near-surface Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a point defect in diamond and has been championed as a promising solid-state "artificial atom." NV center properties such as its bright luminescence, room-temperature optical readout of spin states, and long spin decoherence lifetime make it an excellent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cui, Shanying
Other Authors: Hu, Evelyn
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard.inactive:11827
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13064815