Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Solution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy on a nanostructured diamond chip

  • P. Kehayias,
  • A. Jarmola,
  • N. Mosavian,
  • I. Fescenko,
  • F. M. Benito,
  • A. Laraoui,
  • J. Smits,
  • L. Bougas,
  • D. Budker,
  • A. Neumann,
  • S. R. J. Brueck,
  • V. M. Acosta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00266-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres in diamond can be used for NMR spectroscopy, but increased sensitivity is needed to avoid long measurement times. Kehayias et al. present a nanostructured diamond grating with a high density of NV centres, enabling NMR spectroscopy of picoliter-volume solutions.