Issue 37, 2022

High-quality diamond microparticles containing SiV centers grown by chemical vapor deposition with preselected seeds

Abstract

The superior properties of diamond have made it a versatile platform for many promising applications in a wide range of areas. Thus, various methods, like chemical vapor deposition (CVD), have been developed to fabricate diamond materials with desired properties. However, the CVD-grown diamond that employs conventional detonation nanodiamonds (DNDs) as seeds is not suitable for many demanding applications that require diamond with high crystallinity, stable color centers, highly emissive features, etc. Here, we propose to use our previously developed salt-assisted air-oxidized (SAAO) nanodiamonds (NDs) as CVD seeds to grow high-quality diamond microparticles that contain silicon vacancy (SiV) centers. The resulting SiV centers hosted in diamond microparticles show superior properties, i.e., significantly increased photoluminescence (PL), narrow PL linewidths, and small inhomogeneous distributions, enabling a wide range of practical applications. We further demonstrate ultrasensitive all-optical thermometry measurement by utilizing the fabricated high-quality microparticle sample.

Graphical abstract: High-quality diamond microparticles containing SiV centers grown by chemical vapor deposition with preselected seeds

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Mar 2022
Accepted
14 Jun 2022
First published
14 Jun 2022

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022,10, 13734-13740

High-quality diamond microparticles containing SiV centers grown by chemical vapor deposition with preselected seeds

T. Zhang, M. Gupta, J. Jing, Z. Wang, X. Guo, Y. Zhu, Y. C. Yiu, T. K.C. Hui, Q. Wang, K. H. Li and Z. Chu, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022, 10, 13734 DOI: 10.1039/D2TC01090A

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