Abstract
Level anticrossing (LAC) spectroscopy has been demonstrated on a family of uniaxially oriented spin color centers with S = 3/2 in the ground and excited states in hexagonal 4H-, 6H-, and rhombic 15R-SiC polytypes. It has been shown that these centers exhibit unique characteristics such as optical spin alignment up to the temperatures of 250°C. A sharp variation of the IR photoluminescence intensity in the vicinity of LAC with the record contrast has been observed, which can be used for a purely all-optical sensing of the magnetic field and temperature without applying radiofrequency field. A distinctive feature of the LAC signal is weak dependence on the direction of the magnetic field that allows one to monitor the LAC signals in the nonoriented systems, such as powder of SiC nanocrystals.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
A. Gruber, A. Dräbenstedt, C. Tietz, L. Fleury, J. Wrachtrup, and C. von Borczyskowski, Science 276, 2012 (1997).
V. S. Vainer and V. A. Il’in, Sov. Phys.: Solid State 23, 2126 (1981).
P. G. Baranov, I. V. Il’in, E. N. Mokhov, M. V. Muzafarova, S. B. Orlinskii, and J. Schmidt, JETP Lett. 82, 441 (2005).
P. G. Baranov, A. P. Bundakova, I. V. Borovykh, S. B. Orlinskii, R. Zondervan, and J. Schmidt, JETP Lett. 86, 202 (2007).
P. G. Baranov, A. P. Bundakova, A. A. Soltamova, S. B. Orlinskii, I. V. Borovykh, R. Zondervan, R. Verberk, and J. Schmidt, Phys. Rev. B 83, 125203 (2011).
J. R. Weber, W. F. Koehl, J. B. Varley, A. Janotti, B. B. Buckley, C. G. van de Walle, and D. D. Awschalom, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 8513 (2010).
D. di Vincenzo, Nat. Mater. 9, 468 (2010).
W. F. Koehl, B. B. Buckley, F. J. Heremans, G. Calusine, and D. D. Awschalom, Nature 479, 84 (2011).
V. A. Soltamov, A. A. Soltamova, P. G. Baranov, and I. I. Proskuryakov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226402 (2012).
D. Riedel, F. Fuchs, H. Kraus, S. Väth, A. Sperlich, V. Dyakonov, A. A. Soltamova, P. G. Baranov, V. A. Ilyin, and G. V. Astakhov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 226402 (2012).
P. G. Baranov, V. A. Soltamov, A. A. Soltamova, G. V. Astakhov, and V. V. Dyakonov, Mater. Sci. Forum 740–742, 425 (2013).
F. Fuchs, V. A. Soltamov, S. Väth, P. G. Baranov, E. N.Mokhov, G. V. Astakhov, and V. Dyakonov, Sci. Rep. 3, 1637 (2013).
H. Kraus, V. A. Soltamov, D. Riedel, S. Väth, F. Fuchs, A. Sperlich, P. G. Baranov, V. Dyakonov, and G. V. Astakhov, Nat. Phys. 10, 157 (2014).
H. Kraus, V. A. Soltamov, F. Fuchs, D. Simin, A. Sperlich, P. G. Baranov, G. V. Astakhov, and V. Dyakonov, Sci. Rep. 4, 5303 (2014).
A. L. Falk, B. B. Buckley, G. Calusine, W. F. Koehl, V. V. Dobrovitski, A. Politi, C. A. Zorman, P. X.-L. Feng, and D. D. Awschalom, Nat. Commun. 4, 1819 (2013).
T. C. Hain, F. Fuchs, V. A. Soltamov, P. G. Baranov, G. V. Astakhov, T. Hertel, and V. Dyakonov, J. Appl. Phys. 115, 133508 (2014).
V. A. Soltamov, B. V. Yavkin, D. O. Tolmachev, R. A. Babunts, A. G. Badalyan, V. Yu. Davydov, E. N. Mokhov, I. I. Proskuryakov, S. B. Orlinskii, and P. G. Baranov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247602 (2015).
S. G. Carter, O. O. Soykal, P. Dev, S. E. Economou, and E. R. Glaser, Phys. Rev. B 92, 161202 (2015).
D. Simin, V. A. Soltamov, A. V. Poshakinskiy, A.N.Anisimov, R. A. Babunts, D. O. Tolmachev, E. N. Mokhov, M. Trupke, S. A. Tarasenko, A. Sperlich, P. G. Baranov, V. Dyakonov, and G. V. Astakhov, arXiv:1511.04663 (2015).
M. Widmann, S.-Y. Lee, T. Rendler, et al. (Collab.), Nat. Mater. 14, 164 (2015).
A. Muzha, F. Fuchs, N. V. Tarakina, D. Simin, M. Trupke, V. A. Soltamov, E. N. Mokhov, P. G. Baranov, V. Dyakonov, A. Kruege, and G. V. Astakhov, Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 243112 (2014).
S. Nakashima and H. Harima, Phys. Status Solidi A 162, 39 (1997).
S. V. Anishchik, V. G. Vins, A. P. Yelisseyev, N. N. Lukzen, N. L. Lavrik, and V. A. Bagryansky, New J. Phys. 17, 023040 (2015).
P. G. Baranov, A. A. Soltamova, D. O. Tolmachev, N. G. Romanov, R. A. Babunts, F. M. Shakhov, S. V. Kidalov, A. Y. Vul’, G. V. Mamin, S. B. Orlinskii, and N. I. Silkin, Small 7, 1533 (2011).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
The article is published in the original.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Anisimov, A.N., Babunts, R.A., Kidalov, S.V. et al. Spin centers in SiC for all-optical nanoscale quantum sensing under ambient conditions. Jetp Lett. 104, 82–87 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364016140010
Received:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364016140010