Robust luminescence of the silicon-vacancy center in diamond at high temperatures

Stefano Lagomarsino; Federico Gorelli; Mario Santoro; Nicole Fabbri; Ahmed Hajeb; Silvio Sciortino; Lara Palla; Caroline Czelusniak; Mirko Massi; Francesco Taccetti; Lorenzo Giuntini; Nicla Gelli; Dmitry Yu Fedyanin; Francesco Saverio Cataliotti; Costanza Toninelli; Mario Agio

doi:10.1063/1.4938256

journal article·2015-12-01Open access

Robust luminescence of the silicon-vacancy center in diamond at high temperatures

Stefano Lagomarsino, Federico Gorelli, Mario Santoro, Nicole Fabbri, Ahmed Hajeb, Silvio Sciortino, Lara Palla, Caroline Czelusniak, Mirko Massi, Francesco Taccetti, Lorenzo Giuntini, Nicla Gelli, Dmitry Yu Fedyanin, Francesco Saverio Cataliotti, Costanza Toninelli, Mario Agio

AIP Advances· Volume 5· Issue 12

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Abstract

We performed high-temperature luminescence studies of silicon-vacancy color centers obtained by ion implantation in single crystal diamond. We observed reduction of the integrated fluorescence upon increasing temperature, ascribable to a transition channel with an activation energy of 180 meV that populates a shelving state. Nonetheless, the signal decreased only 50% and 75% with respect to room temperature at 500 K and 700 K, respectively. In addition, the color center is found highly photostable at temperatures exceeding 800 K. The luminescence of this color center is thus extremely robust even at large temperatures and it holds promise for novel diamond-based light-emitting devices.

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Biomaterials

OpenAlex topics: Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research · Mineralogy and Gemology Studies · Ion-surface interactions and analysis

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Affiliations

University of Florence 1 Department of Physics and Astrophysics, , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare 2 , Sezione di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

National Institute of Optics (INO-CNR) 3 , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) 4 , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare 5 , Sezione di Pisa, 56127 Pisa, Italy

University of Pisa 6 Department of Physics, , 56127 Pisa, Italy

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 7 Laboratory of Nanooptics and Plasmonics, , Dolgoprudny 141700, Russian Federation

Center for Quantum Science and Technology in Arcetri (QSTAR) 8 , 50125 Florence, Italy

University of Siegen 9 Laboratory of Nano-Optics, , 57072 Siegen, Germany

Funding

Helmoltz Association · Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation · Seventh Framework Programme

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17. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4938256 for details on the models used to describe the photophysics of the SiV− color center.