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Electronic Spin Relaxation and Clustering in High-Pressure High-Temperature Synthesized Microcrystalline Diamond Particles with Reduced Nitrogen Content

Nunn, Nicholas [Adámas Nanotechnologies, Inc., Raleigh, NC (United States); North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)] (ORCID:0000000220212575)·Milikisiyants, Sergey [North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)]·Torelli, Marco D. [Adámas Nanotechnologies, Inc., Raleigh, NC (United States)]·Healey, Alexander [RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)]·Styles, Roy [RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)]·Johnson, Brett C. [RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)] (ORCID:0000000221744178)·Tetienne, Jean-Philippe [RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)] (ORCID:0000000157962508)·Reineck, Philipp [RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)] (ORCID:000000031549937X)·Long, Christopher [Hyperion Materials & Technologies, Columbus, OH (United States)]·Dumm, Timothy [Hyperion Materials & Technologies, Columbus, OH (United States)]·Dalis, Adam [Hyperion Materials & Technologies, Columbus, OH (United States)]·Abe, Hiroshi [National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Gunma (Japan)] (ORCID:0000000196598382)·Ohshima, Takeshi [National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Gunma (Japan); Tohoku University, Miyagi (Japan)] (ORCID:0000000278503164)·Moon, Leo Joon Il [UC Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Druga, Emanuel [UC Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Ajoy, Ashok [UC Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]·Shames, Alexander I. [Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva (Israel)] (ORCID:0000000205741911)·Smirnov, Alex I. [North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)] (ORCID:0000000200372555)·Shenderova, Olga A. [Adámas Nanotechnologies, Inc., Raleigh, NC (United States)]
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The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV – ) color center in diamonds is widely studied because of numerous applications of this unique quantum system in sensing and quantum information sciences. While substitutional nitrogen is required to form the NV – centers in diamond, it also yields other paramagnetic defects─primarily the neutrally charged substitutional nitrogen centers (P1)─that decrease NV – spin coherence, which in turn degrades performance in applications. Herein, we investigate high-pressure high-temperature synthesized diamond microparticles (ca. 140–185 μm) having lower─ranging from 3 to 38 ppm─than the typical nitrogen content of type 1b diamond ( ca. 100 ppm and higher) typically used for the production of fluorescent diamond particles with NV – centers. A suite of electron paramagnetic resonance, optically detected magnetic resonance, and nuclear magnetic resonance methods are used to characterize spin properties of P1 and NV – centers in the particles. Upon decreasing the nitrogen content from 29 to 3 ppm, the ensemble NV – T 2 relaxation time increased by about 3-fold as measured directly in the Hahn Echo experiment at magnetic field of 1.2 T. Analysis of electronic relaxation of P1 centers revealed the existence of at least two distinct populations of P1 centers, consisting of fast and slower relaxing spins and allowed for an estimation of local concentrations. Even with <10 ppm nitrogen contents, the analysis indicated a highly heterogeneous distribution of P1 centers, suggesting the possibility of P1 spin clustering even at low nitrogen concentrations. The combined data demonstrate that the particles prepared from HPHT diamond with a low nitrogen content offer improved spin properties that are beneficial for NV – sensing applications.

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Nunn, Nicholas [Adámas Nanotechnologies, Inc., Raleigh, NC (United States); North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)] (ORCID:0000000220212575), Milikisiyants, Sergey [North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)], Torelli, Marco D. [Adámas Nanotechnologies, Inc., Raleigh, NC (United States)], Healey, Alexander [RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)], Styles, Roy [RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)], Johnson, Brett C. [RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)] (ORCID:0000000221744178), Tetienne, Jean-Philippe [RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)] (ORCID:0000000157962508), Reineck, Philipp [RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)] (ORCID:000000031549937X), Long, Christopher [Hyperion Materials & Technologies, Columbus, OH (United States)], Dumm, Timothy [Hyperion Materials & Technologies, Columbus, OH (United States)], Dalis, Adam [Hyperion Materials & Technologies, Columbus, OH (United States)], Abe, Hiroshi [National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Gunma (Japan)] (ORCID:0000000196598382), Ohshima, Takeshi [National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Gunma (Japan); Tohoku University, Miyagi (Japan)] (ORCID:0000000278503164), Moon, Leo Joon Il [UC Berkeley, CA (United States)], Druga, Emanuel [UC Berkeley, CA (United States)], Ajoy, Ashok [UC Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)], Shames, Alexander I. [Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva (Israel)] (ORCID:0000000205741911), Smirnov, Alex I. [North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)] (ORCID:0000000200372555), Shenderova, Olga A. [Adámas Nanotechnologies, Inc., Raleigh, NC (United States)]. 2025-04-08. Electronic Spin Relaxation and Clustering in High-Pressure High-Temperature Synthesized Microcrystalline Diamond Particles with Reduced Nitrogen Content. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c00471

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