Bottom-Up Synthesis of Single Crystal Diamond Pyramids Containing Germanium Vacancy Centers

Milad Nonahal, Simon J.U. White, Blake Regan, Chi Li, Aleksandra Trycz, Sejeong Kim, Igor Aharonovich, Mehran Kianinia

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Abstract

Diamond resonators containing color-centers are highly sought after for application in quantum technologies. Bottom-up approaches are promising for the generation of single-crystal diamond structures with purposely introduced color centers. Here the possibility of using a polycrystalline diamond to grow single-crystal diamond structures by employing a pattern growth method is demonstrated. For, the possible mechanism of growing a single-crystal structure with predefined shape and size from a polycrystalline substrate by controlling the growth condition is clarified. Then, by introducing germanium impurities during the growth, localized and enhanced emission from fabricated pyramid shaped single-crystal diamonds containing germanium vacancy (GeV) color centers is demonstrated. Finally, linewidth of ∼500 MHz at 4 K from a single GeV center in the pyramid shaped diamonds is measured. The method is an important step toward fabrication of 3D structures for integrated diamond photonics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2100037
Number of pages6
JournalAdvanced Quantum Technologies
Volume4
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • bottom-up growth
  • diamond single crystal
  • germanium vacancy
  • MPCVD growth

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