Print Email Facebook Twitter Nanopositioning of a diamond nanocrystal containing a single nitrogen-vacancy defect center Title Nanopositioning of a diamond nanocrystal containing a single nitrogen-vacancy defect center Author Van der Sar, T. Heeres, E.C. Dmochowski, G.M. De Lange, G. Robledo, L. Oosterkamp, T.H. Hanson, R. Faculty Applied Sciences Department Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Date 2009-04-28 Abstract Precise control over the position of a single quantum object is important for many experiments in quantum science and nanotechnology. We report on a technique for high-accuracy positioning of individual diamond nanocrystals. The positioning is done with a home-built nanomanipulator under real-time scanning electron imaging, yielding an accuracy of a few nanometers. This technique is applied to pick up, move, and position a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect center contained in a diamond nanocrystal. We verify that the unique optical and spin properties of the NV center are conserved by the positioning process. Subject defect statesdiamondnanopositioning,nanostructured materialsnitrogenphotoluminescencevacancies (crystal) To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c7de2af9-5849-42f2-93d3-6045e70cdd94 DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3120558 Publisher American Institute of Physics ISSN 0003-6951 Source http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v94/i17/p173104/s1 Source Applied Physics Letters, 94 (17), 2009 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2009 The Author(s); American Institute of Physics Files PDF vanderSar_2009.pdf 1021.51 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c7de2af9-5849-42f2-93d3-6045e70cdd94/datastream/OBJ/view