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- Color centers in diamond are potential qubits for quantum tech, but integrating them into devices is challenging.
- Researchers developed thin diamond membranes (50-250 nm) with high-quality features that facilitate this integration.
- These membranes display stable optical properties and impressive spin coherence times for individual color centers, making them promising for future quantum applications.
Article Abstract
Color centers in diamond are widely explored as qubits in quantum technologies. However, challenges remain in the effective and efficient integration of these diamond-hosted qubits in device heterostructures. Here, nanoscale-thick uniform diamond membranes are synthesized via "smart-cut" and isotopically (C) purified overgrowth. These membranes have tunable thicknesses (demonstrated 50 to 250 nm), are deterministically transferable, have bilaterally atomically flat surfaces ( ≤ 0.3 nm), and bulk-diamond-like crystallinity. Color centers are synthesized via both implantation and in situ overgrowth incorporation. Within 110-nm-thick membranes, individual germanium-vacancy (GeV) centers exhibit stable photoluminescence at 5.4 K and average optical transition line widths as low as 125 MHz. The room temperature spin coherence of individual nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers shows Ramsey spin dephasing times () and Hahn echo times () as long as 150 and 400 μs, respectively. This platform enables the straightforward integration of diamond membranes that host coherent color centers into quantum technologies.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8704172 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03703 | DOI Listing |
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