Dopant engineering of diamond for quantum sensing technologies

掺杂钻石是未来工业中越来越多的量子传感技术的核心，包括医疗和国防。这些钻石必须同时掺杂电子供体和活跃的“量子缺陷”才能运行。在现有的设备中，由于它们的磁自旋特性，电子供体也会产生寄生磁噪声。在这个项目中，我们的目标是研究具有新的电子供体的金刚石的生长，旨在实现无自旋和无噪声的掺杂特性。通过增强海军环境中的磁异常探测，以及通过在室温下对大脑信号的神经感知，这将为国防能力和健康结果带来重大好处。

Doped diamonds are central to a growing range of quantum-sensing technologies for future industries, including medical and defence. These diamonds must be doped with both an electron donors and active 'quantum-defects' to operate. Within existing devices, the electronic donors also create parasitic magnetic noise, due to their magnetic-spin properties. In this project we aim to investigate the growth of diamond with new electronic donors, aiming for spin-free and thus noise-free dopant properties. This should provide significant benefits to defence capability, through enhanced magnetic anomaly detection in naval environments, and health outcomes, through neural sensing of brain signals at room temperature.