Julia Tisler

TL;DR: This work shows how magneto-optical spin detection can be used to determine the location of a spin associated with a single nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond with nanometre resolution under ambient conditions, and demonstrates the use of a single diamond spin as a scanning probe magnetometer to map nanoscale magnetic field variations.

TL;DR: Stable photoluminescence and high-contrast optically detected electron spin resonance (ODESR) from single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect centers created within ultrasmall, disperse nanodiamonds of radius less than 4 nm conclude that despite the tiny size of these nanod diamonds the photoactive nitrogen-Vacancy color centers retain their bulk properties to the benefit of numerous exciting potential applications in photonics, biomedical labeling, and imaging.

TL;DR: Using pulsed optically detected magnetic resonance techniques, the authors directly probe electron-spin resonance transitions in the excited-state of single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond.

TL;DR: This work shows highly efficient fluorescence resonance energy transfer between negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond as donor and dye molecules as acceptor, respectively, paving the way toward FRET-based scanning probe techniques using single NV donors.

TL;DR: A scanning-probe microscope based on an atomic-size emitter, a single nitrogen-vacancy center in a nanodiamond is presented, paving the way toward a versatile single emitter scanning microscope, which could image and excite molecular-scale light fields in photonic nanostructures or single fluorescent molecules.