Silicon-Vacancy Color Centers in Nanodiamonds: Cathodoluminescence Imaging Marker in the Near Infrared

2013/09/20 by Huiliang Zhang, Zhang, Huiliang, Igor Aharonovich +14
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques #Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #cond-mat.mtrl-sci

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.5169

arxiv created 2013/09/20 · openalex publication_date 2013/09/20 · arxiv updated 2013/09/23 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We demonstrate that nanodiamonds fabricated to incorporate silicon-vacancy (Si-V) color centers provide bright, spectrally narrow, and stable cathodoluminescence (CL) in the near-infrared. Si-V color centers containing nanodiamonds are promising as non-bleaching optical markers for correlated CL and secondary electron microscopy, including applications to nanoscale bioimaging.

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