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We present a novel technique based on an ensemble of Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to perform Magnetic Current Imaging (MCI) on an Integrated Circuit (IC). NV centers in diamond allow measuring the three components of the…

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Magnetic imaging with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) spins in diamond is becoming an established tool for studying nanoscale physics in condensed matter systems. However, the optical access required for NV spin readout remains an important hurdle…

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Molecular imaging refers to a class of noninvasive biomedical imaging techniques with the sensitivity and specificity to image biochemical variations in-vivo. An ideal molecular imaging technique visualizes a biochemical target according to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Alex Hegyi , Eli Yablonovitch

We present a compact, low-cost version of an NV center diamond magnetometer which replaces the standard green laser with a high-power LED. This modification improves safety, reduces cost, and allows the green excitation and red…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-02-09 Hollis Williams , Alex Newman , Stuart Graham , Colin Stephen , Gavin Morley

Precise and high efficiency concentration of mid-infrared (mid-IR) light into sub wavelength volumes is essential for probing low-energy excitations and achieving strong field enhancements, which can be hindered by absorption losses and…

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond are a leading modality for both superresolution optical imaging and nanoscale magnetic field sensing. In this work, we solve the remaining key challenge of performing optical magnetic imaging…

Measuring spins is the corner stone of a variety of analytical techniques including modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The full potential of spin imaging and sensing across length scales is hindered by the achievable signal-to-noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Steinert , F. Ziem , L. Hall , A. Zappe , M. Schweikert , A. Aird , G. Balasubramanian , L. Hollenberg , J. Wrachtrup

Current density distributions in active integrated circuits (ICs) result in patterns of magnetic fields that contain structural and functional information about the IC. Magnetic fields pass through standard materials used by the…

Diamond has attracted great interest as a quantum technology platform thanks to its optically active nitrogen vacancy center (NV). The NV's ground state spin can be read out optically exhibiting long spin coherence times of about 1 ms even…

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been widely used as platforms for quantum information, magnetometry and imaging of microwave (MW) fields. High-precision spatial control of the MW field necessary to drive the electronic spin of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Giacomo Mariani , Shuhei Nomoto , Satoshi Kashiwaya , Shintaro Nomura

Scanning magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond has emerged as a powerful microscopy for studying weak stray field patterns with nanometer resolution. Due to the internal crystal anisotropy of the spin defect, however,…

Micrometer-scale thin diamond devices are key components for various quantum sensing and networking experiments, including the integration of color centers into optical microcavities. In this work, we introduce a laser-cutting method for…

Deploying nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as nanoscale quantum sensors for condensed matter and materials physics requires placing the NV centers close to the sensing target. One solution is to fabricate diamond nanostructures and…

In quantum sensing of magnetic fields, ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond offer high sensitivity, high bandwidth and outstanding spatial resolution while operating in harsh environments. Moreover, the orientation of defect…

Arrays of NV centers in the diamond have the potential in the fields of chip-scale quantum information processing and nanoscale quantum sensing. However, determining their orientations one by one is resource intensive and time consuming.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Xuerui Song , Fupan Feng , Chunxiao Cai , Guanzhong Wang , Wei Zhu , Wenting Diao , Chongdi Duan

Single nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been used extensively for high-sensitivity nanoscale sensing, but conventional approaches use confocal microscopy to measure individual centers sequentially, limiting throughput and…

The long-lived electronic spin of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a promising quantum sensor for detecting nanoscopic magnetic and electric fields in a variety of experimental conditions. Nevertheless, an outstanding…

Optically-detected paramagnetic centers in wide-bandgap semiconductors are emerging as a promising platform for nanoscale metrology at room temperature. Of particular interest are applications where the center is used as a probe to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Abdelghani Laraoui , Daniela Pagliero , Carlos A. Meriles

We present two fiberized vector magnetic-field sensors, based on nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. The sensors feature sub-nT/$\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}$ magnetic sensitivity. We use commercially available components to construct sensors…

We propose an original analog method to perform instantaneous and quantitative spectral analysis of microwave signals. An ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers held in a diamond plate is pumped by a 532 nm laser. Its photoluminescence…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 M. Chipaux , L. Toraille , C. Larat , L. Morvan , S. Pezzagna , J. Meijer , T. Debuisschert