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Charge State Dynamics And Quantum Sensing With Defects In Diamond, Jacob D. Henshaw
Charge State Dynamics And Quantum Sensing With Defects In Diamond, Jacob D. Henshaw
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In recent years, defect centers in wide band gap semiconductors such as diamond, have received significant attention. Defects offer great utility as single photon emitters, nanoscale sensors, and quantum memories and registers for quantum computation. Critical to the utility of these defects, is their charge state.
In this dissertation, experiments surrounding the charge state dynamics and the carrier dynamics are performed and analyzed. Extensive studies of the ionization and recombination processes of defects in diamond, specifically, the Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) center, have been performed. Diffusion of ionized charge carriers has been imaged indirectly through the recapture of said carriers by …