Quantum Sensors for Life Science

目前的Emmy Noether项目的第六年将针对单个有机电子自旋的磁共振成像。金刚石中的单个氮空位（NV）中心将用于检测约100个电子自旋的小集合的信号，这些电子自旋将通过中等强度（0.1 T）磁场和低温（10 K）冷却进行热极化。成像将在磁场梯度中通过傅立叶光谱在单自旋水平上进行，建立在前两个资助期的结果基础上。

The sixth year of the present Emmy Noether project will aim at magnetic resonance imaging of single organic electron spins. A single Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center in diamond will be used to detect the signal of a small ensemble of ~100 electron spins, which will be thermally polarised by a moderately strong (0.1 T) magnetic field and cryogenic (10K) cooling. Imaging will be performed on the single-spin level by Fourier spectroscopy in a magnetic field gradient, building on the results of the first two funding periods.