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We report the discovery of superconductivity in boron-doped diamond synthesized at high pressure (8-9 GPa) and temperature (2,500-2,800 K). Electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and field-dependent resistance…
Several diamond bulk crystals with a concentration of electrically neutral single substitutional nitrogen atoms of $\lesssim 80~$ppm, the so-called C- or P1-centres, were irradiated with electrons at 10 MeV energy and low fluence. The…
Little is known about oxygen-related defects in diamond. Recently, the promising room-temperature spin centre named ST1 was identified as an oxygen centre, but of still unknown atomic structure and thermal stability. In this work, we report…
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