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Advances In Diamond Nanofabrication For Ultrasensitive Devices, Stefania Castelletto, Lorenzo Rosa, Jonathan Blackledge, Mohammed Zaher Al Abri, Albert Boretti Oct 2017

Advances In Diamond Nanofabrication For Ultrasensitive Devices, Stefania Castelletto, Lorenzo Rosa, Jonathan Blackledge, Mohammed Zaher Al Abri, Albert Boretti

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This paper reviews some of the major recent advances in single-crystal diamond nanofabrication and its impact in nano- and micromechanical, nanophotonics and optomechanical components. These constituents of integrated devices incorporating specific dopants in the material provide the capacity to enhance the sensitivity in detecting mass and forces as well as magnetic field down to quantum mechanical limits and will lead pioneering innovations in ultrasensitive sensing and precision measurements in the realm of the medical sciences, quantum sciences and related technologies.


Level Anticrossing Of Impurity States In Semiconductor Nanocrystals, Anvar S. Baimuratov, Ivan D. Rukhlenko, Vadim K. Turkov, Irina Ponomareva, Mikhail Yu Leonov, Tatiana S. Perova, Kevin Berwick, Alexander V. Baranov, Anatoly V. Federov Jan 2017

Level Anticrossing Of Impurity States In Semiconductor Nanocrystals, Anvar S. Baimuratov, Ivan D. Rukhlenko, Vadim K. Turkov, Irina Ponomareva, Mikhail Yu Leonov, Tatiana S. Perova, Kevin Berwick, Alexander V. Baranov, Anatoly V. Federov

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The size dependence of the quantized energies of elementary excitations is an essential feature of quantum nanostructures, underlying most of their applications in science and technology. Here we report on a fundamental property of impurity states in semiconductor nanocrystals that appears to have been overlooked—the anticrossing of energy levels exhibiting different size dependencies. We show that this property is inherent to the energy spectra of charge carriers whose spatial motion is simultaneously affected by the Coulomb potential of the impurity ion and the confining potential of the nanocrystal. The coupling of impurity states, which leads to the anticrossing, can be …