S. Tyler, J. Newland, P. Hepworth, A. Wijesekara, I. R. Gullick, M. L. Markham, M. E. Newton, B. L. Green
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Abstract
Mechanical polishing of diamond is known to be detrimental to the spin coherence time and strain environment of near-surface defects via intrinsic introduction of subsurface damage: this damage is typically removed by inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching (ICP-RIE). By utilizing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process to prepare ⟨001⟩ diamond surfaces, we demonstrate that we can achieve 13C-limited spin lifetimes of shallow implanted (≤34 nm) nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in an industrially scalable process. We compare spin lifetimes (T2) of three diamonds processed with CMP with one processed by ICP-RIE and observe an increased median T2 of 340 μs in the CMP-processed samples for 15NV centers implanted and annealed under identical conditions.
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