M-ERA.NET project “Metrology at the Nanoscale with Diamonds” (MyND) answers to the trans-national M-ERA.NET call of 2014 (https://m-era.net/joint-calls/joint-call-2014) and corresponds to the project topic “Functional Materials Focusing on Sensors”.
Lithuanian participants: dr. A. Alkauskas, M. Mackoit, L. Razinkovas.
Abstract
The Magnetometry on the Nanoscale with Diamonds (MyND) project seeks to improve sensors based on nitrogen vacancy (NV) defect centres in diamonds by through new theoretical insights and by the application of novel techniques to magnetic field imaging. These insights will be subsequently applied to generating new knowledge about oxygen sensing and the behaviour of singlet oxygen in SiO2 matrices as well as to opening up a new window on research about the fluid- and magneto-dynamics of self-directed magnetic microdevices. The result of the project will be new scientific understanding of NV centre physics that will improve sensing, in particular of magnetic fields, but also of temperature and pressure. The knowledge gained has the potential to open new technologies (e.g., novel oxygen sensors) and improve other technological fields (e.g., manufacture of magnetic nanoparticles and development of self-propelled microdevices).
Publications
The project resulted in the following published peer-reviewed articles (Lithuanian participants are underlined):
1. Z. Shotan, H. Jayakumar, C. R. Considine, M. Mackoit, H. Fedder, J. Wrachtrup, A. Alkauskas, M. W. Doherty, V. M. Menon, and C. A. Meriles Photo-induced modification of single-photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride ACS Photonics 3, 2490 (2016)
2. M. W. Doherty, C. A. Meriles, A. Alkauskas, H. Fedder, M. J. Sellars, and N. B. Manson Towards a room-temperature spin quantum bus in diamond via optical spin injection, transport and detection Phys. Rev. X 6, 041035 (2016)
3. H. Massana-Cid, F. Martinez-Pedrero, A. Cebers, and P. Tierno Orientational dynamics of fluctuating dipolar particles assembled in a mesoscopic colloidal ribbon Phys. Rev. E 96, 012607 (2017)
4. T. B. Biktagirov, A. N. Smirnov, V. Yu. Davydov, M. W. Doherty, A. Alkauskas, B. C. Gibson, and V. A. Soltamov Strain broadening of the 1042-nm zero-phonon line of the NV center in diamond: a promising spectroscopic tool for defect tomography Phys. Rev. B 96, 075205 (2017)
5. A. L. Exarhos, D. A. Hopper, R. R. Grote, A. Alkauskas, and L. C. Bassett Optical signatures of quantum emitters in suspended hexagonal boron nitride ACS Nano 11, 3328 (2017)
6. A. Trukhin and A. Antuzevics Photoluminescence and electron spin resonance of silicon dioxide crystal with rutile structure Phys. Status Solidi B 216, 1800457 (2018)
7. N. V. Proscia, Z. Shotan, H. Jayakumar, P. Reddy, C. Cohen, M. Dollar, A. Alkauskas, M. W. Doherty, C. A. Meriles, and V. M. Menon Near-deterministic activation of room temperature quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride Optica 5, 1128 (2018)
8. E. Londero, G. Thiering, L. Razinkovas, A. Gali, and A. Alkauskas Vibrational modes of negatively charged silicon-vacancy centers in diamond from ab initio calculations Phys. Rev. B 98, 035306 (2018)
9. C. E. Dreyer, A. Alkauskas, J. L. Lyons, A. Janotti , and C. G. Van de Walle First-principles calculations of point defects for quantum technologies Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 48, 1 (2018)
10. L. Weston, D. Wickramaratne, M. Mackoit, A. Alkauskas, and C. G. Van de Walle Native point defects and impurities in hexagonal boron nitride Phys. Rev. B 97, 214104 (2018)
11. L. Skuja, K. Šmits, A. Trukhin, F. Gahbauer, R. Ferber, M. Auziņš, L. Bušaitė, L. Razinkovas, M. Mackoit-Sinkevičienė, and A. Alkauskas Dynamics of singlet molecular oxygen trapped in silica glass, studied by luminescence polarization anisotropy and density functional theory J. Phys. Chem. C 124, 7244 (2020)
Puntukas electronic structure theory group 