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Magnetic imaging with ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond is a recently developed technique that allows for quantitative vector field mapping. Here we uncover a source of artefacts in the measured magnetic field in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 J. -P. Tetienne , D. A. Broadway , S. E. Lillie , N. Dontschuk , T. Teraji , L. T. Hall , A. Stacey , D. A. Simpson , L. C. L. Hollenberg

An emission band in the infrared is shown to be associated with a transition within the negative nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. The band has a zero-phonon line at 1046 nm, and uniaxial stress and magnetic field measurements indicate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-13 L. J. Rogers , S. Armstrong , M. J. Sellars , N. B. Manson

Wide-field magnetic microscopy using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond can yield high-quality magnetic images of DC and AC magnetic fields. The unique combination of micron-scale spatial resolution of scalar or vector fields at room…

We present the development of an optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) system, which enables us to perform the ODMR measurements of a single defect in solids at high frequencies and high magnetic fields. Using the high-frequency and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Viktor Stepanov , Franklin H. Cho , Chathuranga Abeywardana , Susumu Takahashi

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are versatile quantum sensors with broad applications in the physical and life sciences. The concentration of neutral substitutional nitrogen ([N$_\text{s}^0$]) strongly influences…

Nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) center in diamond provides a robust, solid-state platform for magnetic field measurements at room temperature. To harness its potential in inspecting inaccessible regions, here we present a compact endoscopic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-22 Satbir Singh , Hyunjong Lee , Nhu Anh Nguyen , Seonghyeon Kang , Jeong Hyun Shim , Sangwon Oh , Kwang-Geol Lee

Diamonds with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center ensembles are one of the most promising solid-state quantum platforms for various sensing applications. The combination of a long spin dephasing time ($T_2^*$) and a high NV center concentration is…

Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy has broad applications in physics, chemistry and biology. As a complementary tool, zero-field ESR (ZF-ESR) spectroscopy has been proposed for decades and shown its own benefits for investigating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Fei Kong , Pengju Zhao , Xiangyu Ye , Zhecheng Wang , Zhuoyang Qin , Pei Yu , Jihu Su , Fazhan Shi , Jiangfeng Du

We present an experimental and theoretical study of the optically detected magnetic resonance signals for ensembles of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in 13C isotopically enriched single-crystal diamond. We observe four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 A. Jarmola , Z. Bodrog , P. Kehayias , M. Markham , J. Hall , D. J. Twitchen , V. M. Acosta , A. Gali , D. Budker

Advances in sensing devices that utilize nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center ensembles in diamond are driving progress in microscale nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Utilizing quantum sensing techniques in the high-field regime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ainitze Biteri-Uribarren , Ana Martin , Jorge Casanova

Magnetic imaging based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond has emerged as a powerful tool for probing magnetic phenomena in fields ranging from biology to physics. A key strength of NV sensing is its local-probe nature, enabling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Guillermo Nava Antonio , Iacopo Bertelli , Brecht G. Simon , Rajasekhar Medapalli , Dmytro Afanasiev , Toeno van der Sar

Vector magnetometry is an essential tool in characterizing the distribution of currents and magnetization in a broad range of systems. Point defect sensors, like the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond, have demonstrated impressive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 N. M. Beaver , N. Voce , P. Meisenheimer , R. Ramesh , P. Stevenson

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamonds have emerged as a promising quantum sensing platform for biomedical imaging applications, yet random orientations of individual particles present significant challenges in large-scale sensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Yizhou Wang , Haochen Shen , Zhongyuan Liu , Yue Yu , Shengwang Du , Chong Zu , Chuanwei Zhang

Nanodiamonds containing nitrogen vacancy (NV-) centers show promise for a number of emerging applications including targeted in vivo imaging and generating nuclear spin hyperpolarization for enhanced NMR spectroscopy and imaging. Here, we…

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center spins in diamond offer a robust, precise and accurate magnetic sensor. As their applications move beyond the laboratory, practical considerations including size, complexity, and power consumption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Maggie Wang , Michael Caouette-Mansour , Adrian Solyom , Lilian Childress

An ensemble of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond can act as a precise quantum sensor even under ambient conditions. In particular, to optimize thier sensitivity, it is crucial to increase the number of spins sampled and…

The application of imaging techniques based on ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) sensors in diamond to characterise electrical devices has been proposed, but the compatibility of NV sensing with operational gated devices remains largely…

We demonstrate direct, non-invasive and non-contact detection of human cardiac magnetic signals using quantum sensors based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Three configurations were employed recording magnetocardiography (MCG)…

Nitrogen-vacancy quantum defects in diamond offer a promising platform for magnetometry because of their remarkable optical and spin properties. In this Letter, we present a high-sensitivity and wide-bandwidth fiber-based quantum…

Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have useful properties for detecting both AC and DC magnetic fields with high sensitivity at nano-scale resolution. Vector detection of AC magnetic fields can be achieved by using NV centers having…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Pooja Lamba , Akshat Rana , Sougata Halder , Siddharth Dhomkar , Dieter Suter , Rama K. Kamineni