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Abstract Metal‐assisted electrochemical nanoimprinting (Mac‐Imprint) scales the fabrication of micro‐ and nanoscale 3D freeform geometries in silicon and holds the promise to enable novel chip‐scale optics operating at the near‐infrared spectrum. However, Mac‐Imprint of silicon concomitantly generates mesoscale roughness (e.g., protrusion size ≈45 nm) creating prohibitive levels of light scattering. This arises from the requirement to coat stamps with nanoporous gold catalyst that, while sustaining etchant diffusion, imprints its pores (e.g., average diameter ≈42 nm) onto silicon. In this work, roughness is reduced to sub‐10 nm levels, which is in par with plasma etching, by decreasing pore size of the catalyst via dealloying in far‐from equilibrium conditions. At this level, single‐digit nanometric details such as grain‐boundary grooves of the catalyst are imprinted and attributed to the resolution limit of Mac‐Imprint, which is argued to be twice the Debye length (i.e., 1.7 nm)—a finding that broadly applies to metal‐assisted chemical etching. Last, Mac‐Imprint is employed to produce single‐mode rib‐waveguides on pre‐patterned silicon‐on‐insulator wafers with root‐mean‐square line‐edge roughness less than 10 nm while providing depth uniformity (i.e., 42.9 ± 5.5 nm), and limited levels of silicon defect formation (e.g., Raman peak shift < 0.1 cm−1) and sidewall scattering.
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Creating Single Color Centers in Nanodiamonds with Ion Implantation
We report the first demonstration of single silicon vacancy center creation in 20 nm nanodiamonds using silicon ion implantation combined with thermal annealing. Room-temperature single photon emission with linewidth below 10 nm is observed.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2015025
- PAR ID:
- 10442337
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Creating Single Color Centers in Nanodiamonds with Ion Implantation
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- FTu3C.1
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_FS.2023.FTu3C.1
