Bottom up engineering of single crystal diamond membranes with germanium vacancy color centers

Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Optical Materials Express, 2019, 9 (12), pp. 4708 - 4715
Issue Date:
2019-01-01
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© 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement. Color centers in diamond have garnered significant attention for applications in integrated quantum photonics. The availability of thin (~ hundred of nanometers) diamond membranes is paramount to achieve this goal. In this paper, we describe in detail a robust, reproducible and cost effective fabrication method that enables engineering high quality thin diamond membranes with uniform distribution of germanium vacancies employing microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition. We use a combination of different germanium precursors for homogeneous doping of the membranes to increase the probability of germanium incorporation into the diamond lattice. Our fabrication methodology can be further extended to implementation of other color centers in thin diamond membranes and be used for engineering quantum photonic devices.
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