Effect of low-damage inductively coupled plasma on shallow nitrogen-vacancy 
centers in diamond

de Oliveira, F.; Momenzadeh, S.; Wang, Y.; Konuma, M.; Markham, M.; Edmonds, A.; Denisenko, A.; Wrachtrup, J.

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Effect of low-damage inductively coupled plasma on shallow nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

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Wang, Y.
Department Nanoscale Science (Klaus Kern), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Max Planck Society;

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Konuma, M.
Department Nanoscale Science (Klaus Kern), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Max Planck Society;
Scientific Facility Interface Analysis (Ulrich Starke), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Max Planck Society;

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de Oliveira, F., Momenzadeh, S., Wang, Y., Konuma, M., Markham, M., Edmonds, A., et al. (2015). Effect of low-damage inductively coupled plasma on shallow nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Applied Physics Letters, 107(7): 073107.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000E-CD42-1

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Near-surface nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been successfully employed as atomic-sized magnetic field sensors for external spins over the last years. A key challenge is still to develop a method to bring NV centers at nanometer proximity to the diamond surface while preserving their optical and spin properties. To that aim we present a method of controlled diamond etching with nanometric precision using an oxygen inductively coupled plasma process. Importantly, no traces of plasma-induced damages to the etched surface could be detected by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and confocal photoluminescence microscopy techniques. In addition, by profiling the depth of NV centers created by 5.0 keV of nitrogen implantation energy, no plasma-induced quenching in their fluorescence could be observed. Moreover, the developed etching process allowed even the channeling tail in their depth distribution to be resolved. Furthermore, treating a C-12 isotopically purified diamond revealed a threefold increase in T-2 times for NV centers with <4 nm of depth (measured by nuclear magnetic resonance signal from protons at the diamond surface) in comparison to the initial oxygen-terminated surface. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.