Nanoscale Vacancy-Mediated Aggregation, Dissociation, and Splitting of Nitrogen Centers in Natural Diamond Excited by Visible-Range Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Experimental Results
3.1. PL Spectra at 532 nm Laser Photoexcitation
3.2. PL Spectra at 405 nm Photoexcitation
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Kudryashov, S.; Kriulina, G.; Danilov, P.; Kuzmin, E.; Kirichenko, A.; Rodionov, N.; Khmelnitskii, R.; Chen, J.; Rimskaya, E.; Shur, V. Nanoscale Vacancy-Mediated Aggregation, Dissociation, and Splitting of Nitrogen Centers in Natural Diamond Excited by Visible-Range Femtosecond Laser Pulses. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 258. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13020258
Kudryashov S, Kriulina G, Danilov P, Kuzmin E, Kirichenko A, Rodionov N, Khmelnitskii R, Chen J, Rimskaya E, Shur V. Nanoscale Vacancy-Mediated Aggregation, Dissociation, and Splitting of Nitrogen Centers in Natural Diamond Excited by Visible-Range Femtosecond Laser Pulses. Nanomaterials. 2023; 13(2):258. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13020258
Chicago/Turabian StyleKudryashov, Sergey, Galina Kriulina, Pavel Danilov, Evgeny Kuzmin, Alexey Kirichenko, Nikolay Rodionov, Roman Khmelnitskii, Jiajun Chen, Elena Rimskaya, and Vladimir Shur. 2023. "Nanoscale Vacancy-Mediated Aggregation, Dissociation, and Splitting of Nitrogen Centers in Natural Diamond Excited by Visible-Range Femtosecond Laser Pulses" Nanomaterials 13, no. 2: 258. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13020258