Joanne Harrison

TL;DR: In this article, a model of the electronic structure and the associated dynamics of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond was presented for the occurrence of optically induced spin polarization, for the change of emission level with spin polarization and for new experimental measurements of transient emission.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first excited state sublevel structure of single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centres in diamond was shown to be an orbital doublet, where one branch supports an efficient cycling transition, while the other can simultaneously support fully allowed optical Raman spin-flip transitions.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the [N-V]− center in diamond is not photochemically stable and that with intense excitation, a proportion of the centers in a crystal are converted to [N −V]0 centers.

TL;DR: In this article, a technique for fabricating micro-and nanostructures incorporating fluorescent defects in diamond with a positional accuracy better than hundreds of nanometers using confocal fluorescence microscopy and focused ion beam etching is described.

TL;DR: In this article, low-temperature electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy has been used to establish the ordering of the ground state spin levels of the nitrogen-vacancy color centre in diamond.