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Diamond-like carbon coating for passive and active electronics

Systems and methods for building passive and active electronics with diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings are provided herein. DLC may be layered upon substrates to form various components of electronic devices. Passive components such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors may be built using DLC as a dielectric or as an insulating layer. Active components such as diodes and transistors may be built with the DLC acting substantially like a semiconductor. The amount of sp 2 and sp 3 bonded carbon atoms may be varied to modify the properties of the DLC for various electronic components.

Timpson, Erik Joseph↗

Experimental determination of energy-level structures of diamond silicon-vacancy centers in off-axis magnetic fields

Here, we report the development of an experimental approach to efficiently determine the energy level structure of an individual silicon vacancy (SiV) center in a magnetic field along an arbitrary direction. This approach uses two coupling rates (one each for the ground and the excited states) to characterize the combined effects of static strain and dynamic Jahn-Teller coupling and exploits the fact that orbital Zeeman effects vanish when the magnetic field is normal to the SiV axis. With an analytical expression for the energy level structure of the SiV under a transverse magnetic field, the two coupling rates can be directly derived from two measurements: one on the frequency separation between two spin-conserved transitions and the other on the coherent population trapping resonance of the SiV ground spin states. A detailed comparison between the numerical calculation and the experimental result on the dependence of the spin-conserved splitting on both the amplitude and direction of the magnetic field further reveals unequal orbital magnetic coupling for the ground and excited states, indicating that unequal orbital quenching factors are needed for an accurate description of the SiV energy level structure in a magnetic field.

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Search for New Half-Metallic Ferromagnets in Quaternary Diamond-Like Compounds I–II{sub 2}–III–VI{sub 4} and I{sub 2}–II–IV–VI{sub 4} (I = Cu; II = Mn, Fe, Co; III = In; IV = Ge, Sn; VI = S, Se, Te)

The structural, electronic, and magnetic properties I–II{sub 2}–III–VI{sub 4} and I{sub 2}–II–IV–VI{sub 4} are investigated firstly by using the first-principles calculations. The investigation was done using the ab initio full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FPLAPW) method where the exchange–correlation potential was calculated with the frame of GGA and GGA+U. The theoretically predicted lattice parameters for I–II{sub 2}–III–VI{sub 4} and I{sub 2}–II–IV–VI{sub 4} alloys are in good agreement with existing experimental measurements. The possibility of half-metallic ferromagnetism in I–II{sub 2}–III–VI{sub 4} and I{sub 2}–II–IV–VI{sub 4} (I = Cu; II = Mn, Fe, Co; III = In; IV = Ge, Sn; VI = S, Se, Te) was analyzed by electronic band structure and density of states calculations. We found that Cu{sub 2}CoGeS{sub 4}, Cu{sub 2}FeGeS{sub 4}, Cu{sub 2}FeSnS{sub 4}, and CuMn{sub 2}InSe{sub 4} compounds exhibit a complete half-metallic characteristic with a total spin moment of 3.00, 4.00, 4.00, and 10.00 μ{sub B} and direct band gap of (Eg ↑ = 0.63 eV), (Eg ↑ = 0.90 eV), (Eg ↑ = 0.31 eV), and (Eg ↓ = 1.10 eV), respectively. These results may be of interest for spintronic applications.

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