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Nanoscale magnetic imaging enabled by nitrogen vacancy centres in nanodiamonds labelled by iron-oxide nanoparticles
摘要： Nanodiamonds containing the nitrogen vacancy centre (NV) have a significant role in biosensing, bioimaging, drug delivery, and as biomarkers in fluorescence imaging, due to their photo-stability and biocompatibility. The optical read out of the NV unpaired electrons spin has been used in diamond magnetometry to image living cells and magnetically labelled cells. Diamond magnetometry is mostly based on the use of bulk diamond with a large concentration of NV centres in a wide field fluorescence microscope equipped with microwave excitation. It is possible to correlate the fluorescence maps with the magnetic field maps of magnetically labelled cells with diffraction limit resolution. Nanodiamonds have not as yet been implemented to image magnetic fields within complex biological systems at the nanometre scale. Here we demonstrate the suitability of nanodiamonds to correlate the fluorescence map with the magnetic imaging map of magnetically labelled cells. Nanoscale optical images with 17 nm resolution of nanodiamonds labelling fixed cells bound to iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles are demonstrated by using a single molecule localisation microscope. Nanoscale magnetic field images of the magnetised magnetic nanoparticles spatially assigned to individual cells are superresolved by the NV centres within nanodiamonds conjugated with the magnetic nanoparticles with 20 nm resolutions. Our method offers a new platform for super-resolution of optical magnetic imaging in biological samples conjugated with nanodiamonds and iron-oxide magnetic nanoparticles.
关键词： spin detection,superresolution,Nitrogen-vacancy centre,optical magnetic imaging,nanodiamonds
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Increased nitrogen-vacancy centre creation yield in diamond through electron beam irradiation at high temperature
摘要： The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre is a fluorescent defect in diamond that is of critical importance for applications from ensemble sensing to biolabelling. Hence, understanding and optimising the creation of NV centres in diamond is vital for technological progress in these areas. We demonstrate that simultaneous electron irradiation and annealing of a high-pressure high-temperature diamond sample increases the NV centre creation efficiency from substitutional nitrogen defects by up to 117% with respect to a sample where the processes are carried out consecutively, but using the same process parameters. This increase in fluorescence is supported by visible and infrared absorption spectroscopy experiments. Our results pave the way for a more efficient creation of NV centres in diamond as well as higher overall NV densities in the future.
关键词： diamond,nitrogen-vacancy centre,high temperature,fluorescence,absorption spectroscopy,electron beam irradiation
更新于2025-09-10 09:29:36