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Vanadium in silicon carbide (SiC) is emerging as an important candidate system for quantum technology due to its optical transitions in the telecom wavelength range. However, several key characteristics of this defect family including their…

We report the experimental realization of a quantum silicon carbide microscope (QSiCM) and demonstrate its functionality by imaging magnetic fields generated by electrical currents. We employ a dual-frequency sensing protocol to enhance the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 A. Suhana , T. A. U. Svetikova , C. Schneider , M. Helm , A. N. Anisimov , G. V. Astakhov

Capacitance-voltage (CV) measurements are a widely used technique in silicon detector physics. It gives direct information about the full depletion voltage and the effective doping concentration. However, for highly irradiated sensors, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-24 Sven Mägdefessel , Riccardo Mori , Niels Sorgenfrei , Ulrich Parzefall

In this work, we present a method for targeted, maskless, and scalable fabrication of single silicon vacancy (VSi) defect arrays in silicon carbide (SiC) using focused ion beam. The resolution of implanted VSi defects is limited to a few…

Cubic silicon carbide is an excellent platform for integration of defect qubits into established wafer scale device architectures for quantum information and sensing applications, where divacancy qubit, that is similar to the negatively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Péter Udvarhelyi , Adam Gali

We report the first observation of stable single photon sources in silicon carbide (SiC). These sources are extremely bright and operate at room temperature demonstrating that SiC is a viable material in which to realize various quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-19 S. Castelletto , B. C. Johnson , N. Stavrias , T. Umeda , T. Ohshima

The extremely low dark current of silicon carbide (SiC) detectors, even after high-fluence irradiation, was utilized to develop a beam monitoring system for a wide range of particle rates, i.e., from the kHz to the GHz regime. The system is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-20 Simon Waid , Andreas Gsponer , Jürgen Maier , Philipp Gaggl , Richard Thalmeier , Thomas Bergauer

Quantum communication promises unprecedented capabilities enabled by the transmission of quantum states of light. However, current implementations face severe distance limitations due to photon loss. Silicon carbide (SiC) defects have…

The hybrid architecture of the Timepix (TPX) family of detectors enables the use of different semiconductor sensors, most commonly silicon (Si), as well as high-density materials such as Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) or Gallium Arsenide (GaAs).…

Pressure-induced magnetic phase transition is attracting interest due to its ability to detect superconducting behaviour at high pressures in diamond anvil cells. However, detection of the local sample magnetic properties is a great…

We have investigated the depletion voltage changes, the leakage current increase and the charge collection efficiency of a silicon microstrip detector identical to those used in the inner layers of the BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bettarini , M. Bondioli , L. Bosisio , G. Calderini , C. Campagnari , S. Dittongo , F. Forti , M. A. Giorgi , G. Marchiori , G. Rizzo

In the field of high-energy particle detection, detectors operating in high-radiation environments primarily face high costs associated with power consumption and cooling systems. Therefore, the development of particle detectors capable of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-11 Xingchen Li , Sen Zhao , Mengke Cai , Suyu Xiao , Congcong Wang , Weimin Song , Xin Shi , Xiyuan Zhang

We report electrical spin state readout and coherent control of an ensemble ($\sim$540) of silicon vacancies ($\mathrm{V}_{\mathrm{Si}}^{-}$) in a silicon carbide-on-insulator (SiCOI) platform, with excitation wavelengths from 780 to 990…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Alexander Zappacosta , Ben Haylock , Paul Fisher , Naoya Morioka , Robert Cernansky

High-precision measurements of the electron affinities (EA) of the three stable isotopes of silicon, $^{28}$Si, $^{29}$Si and $^{30}$Si, have been performed at the cryogenic electrostatic ion-beam storage ring DESIREE. The quantum states of…

This work presents a physics based compact model for SiC power MOSFETs that accurately describes the I-V characteristics up to large voltages and currents. Charge-based formulations accounting for the different physics of SiC power MOSFETs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Cristino Salcines , Sourabh Khandelwal , Ingmar Kallfass

The negatively-charged silicon vacancy center ($\rm V_{Si}^-$) in silicon carbide (SiC) is an emerging color center for quantum technology covering quantum sensing, communication, and computing. Yet, limited information currently available…

Silicon carbide (SiC) is an important semiconductor material for fabricating power electronic devices that exhibit higher switch frequency, lower energy loss and substantial reduction both in size and weight in comparison with its Si-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-19 Guobin Wang , Da Sheng , Yunfan Yang , Hui Li , Congcong Chai , Zhenkai Xie , Wenjun Wang , Jian-gang Guo , Xiaolong Chen

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a promising quantum sensor with remarkably versatile sensing capabilities. While scanning NV magnetometry is well-established, NV electrometry has been so far limited to bulk diamonds. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Ziwei Qiu , Assaf Hamo , Uri Vool , Tony X. Zhou , Amir Yacoby

Recently, the negatively charged silicon vacancy centre (SiV) in diamond has emerged as a novel promising system for quantum information processing (QIP) due to its superior spectral properties and advantageous electronic structure: The SiV…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Jonas Nils Becker , Johannes Görlitz , Carsten Arend , Matthew Markham , Christoph Becher