From Fancy Blue to Red: Controlled Production of a Vibrant Color Spectrum of Fluorescent Diamond Particles

Laura Dei Cas, Steven Zeldin, Nicholas Nunn, Marco Torelli, Alexander I. Shames, Alexander M. Zaitsev, Olga Shenderova

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Abstract

The current study reports a breakthrough method for production of multicolor diamond particulates using a rapid thermal annealing (RTA) approach with precise temperature and time control, enabling annealing of diamond particulates up to 2100 °C without extensive graphitization. The RTA method generates conditions which allow formation of one-, two-, and three-atom nitrogen complexes with vacancies in electron irradiated type Ib synthetic diamond, providing vibrant luminescence in the red, green, and blue spectral ranges, correspondingly. Controlled and highly reproducible formation of specific color centers previously not possible in type Ib synthetic diamond particles opens new opportunities for particulate diamond in a plethora of fluorescence imaging applications in biological and industrial fields.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1808362
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume29
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 May 2019

Keywords

  • diamond particles
  • nitrogen aggregation
  • optical centers
  • photoluminescence
  • thermal annealing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Chemistry (all)
  • Materials Science (all)
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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