The green laser excites charge carriers in the NV centres, which are then captured by surface states. The scanning tip moves over the surface and measures a potential difference around a NV centre.

Chris Ciccarino earned his B.S. in Physics and Chemistry from Seton Hall University in 2017 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Harvard University in 2022. His graduate research utilized ...

Diamonds with certain optically active defects can be used as highly sensitive sensors or qubits for quantum computers, where the quantum information is stored in the electron spin state of these ...