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The shallow nitrogen-vacancy center of diamond exhibits excellent sensitivity and resolution in the magnetic detection and quantum sensing areas. Compared with other methods, low-energy carbon ion implantation does not need high-purity diamond nor introduce new impurity atoms, but the formation mechanism of nitrogen-vacancy center is not clear. In this work, shallow nitrogen-vacancy centers are created in the diamond by low energy carbon ion implantation and vacuum annealing, and the transformation mechanism of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond is studied by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and positron annihilation analysis. The results show that shallow nitrogen-vacancy centers can be obtained by carbon ion implantation combined with vacuum annealing. After implantation, superficial layer of diamond shows the damage zone including lattice distortion and amorphous carbon, and carbon-vacancy cluster defects (carbon atoms are surrounded by vacancy clusters) are generated. In the vacuum annealing process, the damaged area gradually transforms into the diamond structure through the recovery of the distortion area and the solid-phase epitaxy of the amorphous carbon area, accompanied by the continuous dissociation of carbon-vacancy cluster defects. When samples are annealed at 850 and 900 ℃, the structure of the damaged area is partially repaired. While annealing at 950 ℃, not only the damaged layer is basically recovered, but also nitrogen atoms capture the single vacancy obtained by the dissociation of carbon vacancy clusters, forming the nitrogen-vacancy centers.
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Keywords:
- diamond /
- carbon ion implantation /
- positron annihilation /
- nitrogen vacancy centers
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图 2 金刚石在碳离子注入前后的拉曼光谱及 PL 光谱 (a) 原始金刚石拉曼光谱; (b) 原始金刚石的PL光谱; (c) 碳离子注入后金刚石的拉曼光谱; (d) 碳离子注入后金刚石的PL光谱
Figure 2. Raman spectra and PL spectra of the sample before and after implantation: (a) Raman spectrum of original sample; (b) PL spectrum of original sample; (c) Raman spectra of sample after implantation; (d) PL spectrum of sample after implantation.
图 4 离子注入后金刚石的XPS图谱及其退火后的XPS图谱 (a) 注入金刚石的XPS谱; (b) S1 (850 ℃)退火金刚石的XPS谱; (c) S2 (900 ℃)金刚石的XPS谱; (d) S3 (950 ℃)金刚石的XPS谱
Figure 4. XPS spectra of samples after ion implantation and its XPS spectra after annealing: (a) XPS spectra of implanted sample; (b) XPS spectra of the sample annealed at 850 ℃; (c) XPS spectra of the sample annealed at 900 ℃; (d) XPS spectra of the sample annealed at 950 ℃.
表 1 XPS谱的拟合结果
Table 1. Fitting results of XPS spectra.
Samples C-ions S1(850 ℃) S2(900 ℃) S3(950 ℃) μ(sp2) 91.5% 53.5% 25.3% 13.6% μ(sp3) 8.5% 46.5% 74.7% 86.4% -
[1] Solyom A, Flansberry Z, Tschudin M A, Leitao N, Pioro-Ladrière M, Sankey J C, Childress L I 2018 Nano Lett. 18 6494Google Scholar
[2] Casola F, Van Der Sar T, Yacoby A 2018 Nat. Rev. Mater. 3 17088Google Scholar
[3] Feng F, Zhang W, Zhang J, Lou L, Zhu W, Wang G 2019 Eur. Phys. J. 73 202Google Scholar
[4] Kim D, Ibrahim M I, Foy C, Trusheim M E, Han R, Englund D R 2019 Nat. Electron. 2 284Google Scholar
[5] Chen M, Meng C, Zhang Q, Duan C, Shi F, Du J 2018 Natl. Sci. Rev. 5 346Google Scholar
[6] Schmitt S, Gefen T, Stürner F M, Unden T, Wolff G, Müller C, Scheuer J, Naydenov B, Markham M, Pezzagna S, Meijer J 2017 Science 356 832Google Scholar
[7] Barbiero M, Castelletto S, Zhang Q, Chen Y, Charnley M, Russell S, Gu M 2020 Nanoscale 12 8847Google Scholar
[8] Ninio Y, Waiskopf N, Meirzada I, Romach Y, Haim G, Yochelis S, Banin U, Bar-Gill N 2021 ACS Photonics 8 1917Google Scholar
[9] Perona Martínez F, Nusantara A C, Chipaux M, Padamati S K, Schirhagl R 2020 ACS Sensors 5 3862Google Scholar
[10] Zhang C, Yuan H, Zhang N, Xu L X, Li B, Cheng G D, Wang Y, Gui Q, Fang J C 2017 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50 505104Google Scholar
[11] Watanabe A, Nishikawa T, Kato H, Fujie M, Fujiwara M, Makino T, Yamasaki S, Herbschleb E D, Mizuochi N 2021 Carbon 30 294Google Scholar
[12] Ishiwata H, Nakajima M, Tahara K, Ozawa H, Iwasaki T, Hatano M 2017 Appl. Phys. Lett. 24 043103Google Scholar
[13] Momenzadeh S A, Stohr R J, De Oliveira F F, Brunner A, Denisenko A, Yang S, Reinhard F, Wrachtrup J 2015 Nano Lett. 15 165Google Scholar
[14] Bourgeois E, Londero E, Buczak K, Hruby J, Gulka M, Balasubramaniam Y, Wachter G, Stursa J, Dobes K, Aumayr F, Trupke M 2017 Phys. Rev. B 95 041402Google Scholar
[15] Monticone D G, Quercioli F, Mercatelli R, Soria S, Borini S, Poli T, Vannoni M, Vittone E, Olivero P 2013 Phys. Rev. B 88 155201Google Scholar
[16] Waldermann F C, Olivero P, Nunn J, Surmacz K, Wang Z Y, Jaksch D, Taylor R A, Walmsley I A, Draganski M, Reichart P, Greentree A D 2007 Diamond Relat. Mater. 16 1887Google Scholar
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[18] Van Dam S B, Walsh M, Degen M J, Bersin E, Mouradian S L, Galiullin A, Ruf M, IJspeert M, Taminiau T H, Hanson R, Englund D R 2019 Phys. Rev. B 99 161203Google Scholar
[19] Orwa J O, Santori C, Fu K M, Gibson B, Simpson D, Aharonovich I, Stacey A, Cimmino A, Balog P, Markham M, Twitchen D 2011 J. Appl. Phys. 109 083530Google Scholar
[20] Popov V P, Podlesny S N, Kartashov I A, Kupriyanov I N, Palyanov Y N 2021 Diamond Relat. Mater. 120 108675Google Scholar
[21] Ohno K, Joseph Heremans F, de las Casas C F, Myers B A, Alemán B J, Bleszynski Jayich A C, Awschalom D D 2014 Appl. Phys. Lett. 105 052406Google Scholar
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[23] Woods, G S, Van Wyk J A, Collins A T 1990 Philos. Mag. 62 589
[24] 吴晓磊, 徐帅, 赵延军, 吴啸, 常豪锋, 郭兴星 2020 金刚石与磨料磨具工程 40 42Google Scholar
Wu X L, Xu S, Zhao Y J, Wu X, Chang H F, Guo X X 2020 Diamond Abrasives Eng. 40 42Google Scholar
[25] 张礼红, 成斌, 张杰, 张丽娟, 郭卫峰, 刘建党, 张礼楠, 叶邦角 2021 中国科学: 物理学 力学 天文学 42 1217Google Scholar
Zhang L H, Cheng B, Zhang J, Zhang L J, Guo W F, Liu J D, Zhang L N, Ye B J 2021 Sci. Chin. Sin. :Phys. , Mech. Astron. 42 1217Google Scholar
[26] 张鹏, 秦秀波, 于润升, 李玉晓, 曹兴忠, 王宝义 2012 郑州大学学报 44 5Google Scholar
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[27] 郑贤利, 张泊丽, 刘敏, 夏艳芳, 赵修良, 赵越, 宁晓波 2016 材料导报 30 184
Zheng X L, Zhang B L, Liu M, Xia Y F, Zhao X L, Zhao Y, Ning X B 2016 Mater. Rep. 30 184
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[31] Uedono A, Wei L, Tanigawa S, Suzuki R, Ohgaki H, Mikado T, Kametani H, Akiyama H, Yamaguchi Y, Koumaru M 1993 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 32 3682Google Scholar
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[33] 王锐, 胡晓君 2014 物理学报 63 148102Google Scholar
Wang R, Hu X J 2014 Acta Phys. Sin. 63 148102Google Scholar
[34] Uedono A, Mori K, Morishita N, Itoh H, Tanigawa S, Fujii S, Shikata S 1999 J. Phys. Condens. Matter 11 4925Google Scholar
[35] Guagliardo P, Byrne K, Chapman J, Sudarshan K, Samarin S, Williams J 2013 Diamond Relat. Mater. 37 37Google Scholar
[36] 王凯悦, 郭睿昂, 王宏兴 2020 物理学报 69 127802Google Scholar
Wang K Y, Guo R A, Wang H X 2020 Acta Phys. Sin. 69 127802Google Scholar
[37] 胡远超, 曹兴忠, 李玉晓, 张鹏, 靳硕学, 卢二阳, 于润升, 魏龙, 王宝义 2015 物理学报 64 247804Google Scholar
Hu Y C, Cao X Z, Li Y X, Zhang P, Jin S X, Lu E Y, Yu R S, Wei L, Wang B Y 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 247804Google Scholar
[38] 田雪芬, 刘翔, 龚敏, 张培源, 王康, 邓爱红 2021 金属学报 57 121Google Scholar
Tian X F, Liu X, Gong M, Zhang P Y, Wang K, Deng A H 2021 Acta Metall. Sin. 57 121Google Scholar
[39] Selim F A 2021 Mater Charact. 174 110952Google Scholar
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[41] Agulló-Rueda F, Gordillo N, Ynsa M D, Maira A, Cañas J, Ramos M A 2017 Carbon 123 334Google Scholar
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