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Terahertz emission from diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers

László Forró, Ferenc Simon, Sándor Kollarics, Bence Gábor Márkus

Coherent light sources emitting in the terahertz range are highly sought after for fundamental research and applications. Terahertz lasers rely on achieving population inversion. We demonstrate the generation of terahertz radiation using nitrogen-vacancy c ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2024

Ferroelectric device or structure and a method for producing ferroelectric devices or structures

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Zelin Tan

The present invention concerns a method for producing at least one ferroelectric device or structure comprising the steps of providing at least one ferroelectric material or layer, or providing at least one ferroelectric material or layer to be patterned o ...

2023

High-precision optical magnetometry using Nitrogen Vacancies in CVD diamond

Hossein Babashah

Sensing weak magnetic fields is a topic of great importance in basic science and technology due to its wide range of applications. In this context, solid-state and nanoscale quantum sensors are poised to revolutionize the sensing platforms due to their ult ...

EPFL2023

Vacancy segregation and intrinsic coordination defects at (111) twist grain boundaries in diamond

Christian Brandl, Carolina Baruffi

High radiation damage resistance has become increasingly important for applications of functional materials in harsh environments. The high radiation damage resistance diamond cubic carbon is a unique material which is considered for radiation environments ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

From pulsed-DCMS and HiPIMS to microwave plasma-assisted sputtering: Their influence on the properties of diamond-like carbon films

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Johann Michler, David Brown, Caroline Hain, Thomas Nelis

The fabrication of high-hardness non-hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (DLC) via standard magnetron sputtering (MS) is often hindered by the low sputtering yields and ionisation rates of carbon, therefore investigations into pulsed alternatives of MS, else ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Site-selective overgrowth of Ag nanocrystals by Polyvinylpyrrolidone-mediated atom deposition by Ostwald ripening

Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Alejandro Lapresta Fernandez

The growth modulation of metal nanocrystals (NCs) by Ostwald ripening (OR) involves control of the relocation of matter by diffusional mass transfer from the dissolution of small nanocrystals (SNCs) towards large nanocrystals whose surface energy is lower. ...

ELSEVIER2022

Concrete cancer : characterization of Alkali Silica Reaction early stage products by electron microscopy

Solène Anne-Lise Albinski

Concrete deterioration is a natural process, which has to be carefully monitored over a the service life of a structure. The Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) is a slow-process degradation, which devel-ops over decades and is therefore difficult to predict. Sin ...

EPFL2022

Shining Diamond: from Micro- and Nano-Engineering to Quantum Photonics

Sichen Mi

The discovery of room-temperature single photon emission from color centers in diamond has in recent years boosted research interest in this renowned material in photonics and quantum community and beyond. Following understanding some basic principles of h ...

EPFL2021

Diamond diffractive optics-recent progress and perspectives

Niels Quack, Gergely Huszka, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Sichen Mi

Diamond is an exceptional material that has recently seen a remarkable increase in interest in academic research and engineering since high-quality substrates became commercially available and affordable. Exploiting the high refractive index, hardness, las ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2021

Quantum vibronic effects on the electronic properties of solid and molecular carbon

François Gygi, Michele Ceriotti, Han Yang

We study the effect of quantum vibronic coupling on the electronic properties of carbon allotropes, including molecules and solids, by combining path integral first principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) with a colored noise thermostat. In addition to avoidi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Seed Dibbling Method for the Grow of High-Quality Diamond on GaN

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Mehdi Naamoun, Alessandro Floriduz

The integration of diamond and GaN has been highly pursued for thermal management purposes as well as combining their exceptional complementary properties for power electronics applications and novel semiconductor heterostructures. However, the growth of d ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Modeling the response of a diamond detector in the zero power reactor CROCUS

Pavel Frajtag, Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, DongHyuk Lee

The present manuscript documents the development of a practical calculation scheme to model the response of a diamond detector in the mixed (neutron and gamma) radiation field of the CROCUS experimental reactor at EPFL. The model is shown to perform reason ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Diffractive optical elements in single crystal diamond

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss

We demonstrate the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of near-field binary phase transmission diffractive optical elements (DOEs) in single crystal diamond. Top-hat and arbitrary pattern DOE beam shapers were numerically optimized using ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Single crystal diamond gain mirrors for high performance vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers

Niels Quack, Grigore Suruceanu, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman, Pascal Gallo, Gergely Huszka, Mehdi Naamoun

We report on the design, fabrication and optical performance of gain mirrors in single crystal diamond substrates for vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs). VECSELs have gained attention recently due to their potential for high emissio ...

2020

Integrated photonic devices in single crystal diamond

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi, Sichen Mi

The field of diamond photonics is reviewed, with a focus on recent experimental demonstrations of photonic integrated devices in a single crystal diamond. This field leverages the outstanding material properties of diamond with the aim to establish large-s ...

2020

Fabrication and Characterization of Freestanding Single Crystal Diamond and Silicon Microresonators

Teodoro Graziosi

Microresonators are fundamental building blocks of any photonic integrated circuit, as they can be used as filters, modulators, sensors, and to enhance light emission. If these resonators are suspended and are free to oscillate, we can exploit the interact ...

EPFL2019

Advanced Diamond Microfabrication for Microoptics and Photonics

Marcell Kristof Kiss

Diamond is an exceptional material - hard, stiff, transparent, which makes it ideal for the fabrication of optical and mechanical systems that take advantage of these properties. Diamond is not only "better", but it offers the possibility of integrating br ...

EPFL2019

Towards a coherent database of thermal boundary conductance at metal/dielectric interfaces

Ludger Weber, Maïté Blank

The thermal boundary conductance (TBC) of metal/dielectric couples was measured for a large variety of metals on silicon, sapphire, and diamond using time domain thermoreflectance and compared to data previously obtained on diamond. In the case of silicon, ...

2019

High-quality single crystal diamond diffraction gratings fabricated by crystallographic etching

Christian Santschi, Niels Quack, Olivier Martin, Toralf Scharf, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi

We demonstrate a novel method for fabricating single crystal diamond diffraction gratings based on crystallographic etching that yields high-quality diffraction gratings from commercially available diamond plates. Both V-groove and rectangular gratin ...

2019

Heat-transfer at the interface between a metal and a non-metal: influence of ultra-thin interlayers, interface chemistry and atomic order

Maïté Blank

The Thermal Boundary Conductance (TBC) at the interface between metals and dielectrics is of key importance for heat transport in structures heterogeneous on a scale from 100 µm downwards. In this thesis the TBC of a large number of metal/dielectric couple ...

EPFL2019