Journal article
Nitrogen Terminated Diamond
A Stacey, KM O'Donnell, JP Chou, A Schenk, A Tadich, N Dontschuk, J Cervenka, C Pakes, A Gali, A Hoffman, S Prawer
Advanced Materials Interfaces | Published : 2015
Abstract
Diamond surface termination with substitutional nitrogen is reported, leading to the formation of a stable surface which is essentially clear of sub-band surface states and has a positive electron affinity. This is predicted to be an ideal environment for near-surface nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond and may enable magnetic and quantum sensing breakthroughs with these devices.
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors thank A. Bennett for provision of a IIb diamond sample. This research was undertaken on the soft X-ray beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, Victoria, Australia. This work was supported by the Multimodal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualisation Environment (MASSIVE) (www.massive.org.au). A.S. acknowledges funding support from the Australian Research Council under the Centre of Excellence (Project No. CE110001027) and Linkage Project (LP100100524) schemes. A.G. and J.-P.C. acknowledge the funding support from the EU FP7 Grant No. 611143 (DIADEMS) and the MTA Lendulet programme from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.