Chemical sensor based on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

dc.contributor.advisorMaze Ríos, Jerónimo
dc.contributor.authorSantibáñez Cisternas, Vicente Andrés
dc.contributor.otherPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Física
dc.date2021-01-22
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-22T14:42:15Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2021-01-21T02:12:56Z
dc.descriptionTesis (Master in Physics)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2020
dc.description.abstractDuring the last decade, the nitrogen-vancancy (NV) center in diamond has emerged as a solid platform for nanoscale quantum sensing, within which is electrometry and magnetometry. Owing to the NV center high sensitivity and the fact that the diamond withstands adverse environmental conditions, a chemical sensor based on NV centers is a promising candidate for measurements during mining processes. Here, we use a microfluidic confocal microscope and a shallow-implanted diamond with different implantation spots, which are circular areas of 35 um diameter, to perform longitudinal spin relaxometry in the presence of sodium sulfate in aqueous solution in order to determine the T1 relaxation time behaviour. We observed that by increasing sodium sulfate concentration, the longitudinal spin relaxation time decreases, being this effect more noticeable as the NV centers are closer to the diamond surface and, with respect to the 1/T1 parameter, it gives signs to exhibit a quadratic response with concentration. On the other hand, the T1 values are distributed along the implantation spot diameter, reaching minimum values around the spot center and maximum values at the edges, which is evidence that NV centers with different orientations coexist in the same implantation spot. These results lay the foundation for a possible second stage in our chemical sensor development in which, after certain set-up modifications, new pulse-sequence protocols could be tried.
dc.description.version2021-01-22
dc.format.extentviii, 56 páginas
dc.identifier.doi10.7764/tesisUC/FIS/51221
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.7764/tesisUC/FIS/51221
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/51221
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido completo
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subject.ddc681.754
dc.subject.deweyTecnologíaes_ES
dc.subject.otherDetectores químicoses_ES
dc.subject.otherDiamanteses_ES
dc.titleChemical sensor based on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamondes_ES
dc.typetesis de maestría
sipa.codpersvinculados10674
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