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Optique

Nitrogen impurities and fluorescent NVcenters in detonation nanodiamonds: identification and distinct features

Published on - Journal of Optical Technology

Authors: V. Yu. Osipov, S. Abbasi Zargaleh, François Treussart, K. Takai, N. Romanov, F. Shakhov, A. Baldycheva, Osipov V Yu, Zargaleh S Abbasi

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We show that nitrogen is the main impurity contained in detonation nano-diamonds (DNDs), at a concentration of ~16000 ppm. The content of nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) centers in these DNDs is ~2.7 ppm, which is the largest of all known types of nano-diamonds of size