EU-Project DIAMANT
Project title: Diamond based atomic nanotechnologies
EU-Program Acronym: FP7-ICT
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies
Project coordinator: Fedor Jelezko
The DIAMANT team has pioneered the discovery and development of diamond as a uniquely promising material system for solid-state molecular technologies: Diamond has exceptional optical and magnetic properties that are associated with dopant complexes - or "solid-state molecules" - in the diamond lattice. The DIAMANT project will develop new technologies to enable placement of exactly one atom at a time into a selected location in the diamond lattice with nanometre precision. Control of magnetic and optical interactions between single dopants will enable engineering of artificial molecules with radically new functionalities. Applications in the fields of sensing and imaging at the nanoscale, novel data storage and information processing will be developed both theoretically and experimentally. The ability to control magnetic interactions on the atomic scale will enable miniaturisation of electronic devices down to the ultimate size limit - single molecules. We will manufacture photonic crystal cavities and plasmonic structures in diamond to realise the optical interfaces required for reading-in and reading-out information from these molecular-scale devices. Molecular sensors operating under ambient conditions promise to revolutionise the field of biological imaging and precision sensing. In the long term, determination the structure of single proteins will come within reach.
Working principle of the nm resolution deterministic ion implanter based on laser cooled ions trapped in a linear Paul trap (research group Prof. Schmidt-Kaler, Uni Mainz; Video M. Ferner)
Potential curve of trapped ions
news
"Quantum error correction in a solid-state hybrid spin register" Nature 506 (2014)
"Nanoscale Detection of a Single Fundamental Charge in Ambient Conditions Using the NV− Center in Diamond" Phys Rev Lett (2014)
"A silicon carbide room-temperature single-photon source" Nat Mater (2014)
"Formation of NV centers in diamond: A theoretical study based on calculated transitions and migration of nitrogen and vacancy related defects" Phys Rev B (2014)
"Fluorine Modification of the Surface of Diamondoids: A Time-Dependent Density Functional Study" J. Phys. Chem. C (2014)
"Theoretical and electron paramagnetic resonance studies of hyperfine interaction in nitrogen doped 4H and 6H SiC" J Appl Phys (2014)
"Perfect alignment and preferential orientation of nitrogen-vacancy centers during CVD growth of diamond on (111) surfaces" Appl Phys Lett (2014)
"Universal control and error correction in multi-qubit spin registers in diamond" Nature Nanotechnology 9 (2014)
"Photonic architecture for scalable quantum information processing in NV-diamond" arXiv:1309.4277
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"Future and Emerging Technologies": FET is an EU programme for new ideas and themes for long-term research in the area of information and communication technologies