Annealing Techniques for Color Center Formation

Color centers in diamond have emerged as leading atom-like quantum systems for applications spanning from quantum repeaters to sensors. However, the optical and spin properties of engineered diamond color centers are limited by crystal damage produced during ion implantation, crystal irradiation, and annealing. In this thesis, we develop advanced material processing methods and characterization techniques to address critical challenges in the formation of high-performance diamond color centers to advance towards the efficient creation of desired dopant-vacancy centers with minimal formation of deleterious multi-vacancy clusters.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2025

Author dc:creator

• Christen, Ian

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Englund, Dirk

Statement dc:rights

• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/158913

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/158913