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Spectral control of nanodiamond using dressed photon–phonon etching

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The luminescence of a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in a nanodiamond (ND) is of great interest because of its features, especially in the field of nanophotonics. When an NV center in an ND is located in the vicinity of the surface, the emission is often disturbed by any surface defects, resulting in non-radiative recombination. In this work, we performed dressed photon–phonon (DPP) etching of the NDs, and found that the size of the NDs decreased, while the cathodoluminescence (CL) intensity increased. We assume that this increase in the CL intensity originates from the removal of the surface protrusions and/or defects by DPP etching.

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This work was partially supported by a research grant (Basic Research) from The Asahi Glass Foundation, a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (No. 26286022), the Exploratory Research Program (No. 26630122), Nanotechnology Platform (No. 12024046) of MEXT, bilateral joint research projects of CNR/JSPS, and Core-to-Core Program of JSPS (A. Advanced Research Networks).

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    R. Nagumo, F. Brandenburg & T. Yatsui

  2. Institute for Quantum Optics and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQST), Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany

    A. Ermakova & F. Jelezko

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Nagumo, R., Brandenburg, F., Ermakova, A. et al. Spectral control of nanodiamond using dressed photon–phonon etching. Appl. Phys. A 121, 1335–1339 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-015-9400-0

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