The long-dreamed-of capability of monitoring the molecular machinery in living systems has
not been realized yet, mainly due to the technical limitations of current sensing technologies …

The flat endface of an optical fiber tip is an emerging light-coupled microscopic platform that
combines fiber optics with planar micro-and nanotechnologies. Since different materials and …

We demonstrate an integrated and miniaturised magnetic field sensor based on the
negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centres (NV−) in diamond. The compact device …

Magnetometry and visualization of very small magnetic fields are vital for a large variety of
the areas ranging from magnetocardiography and encephalography to nondistractive …

Diamond containing the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is emerging as a significant sensing
platform. However, most NV sensors require microscopes to collect the fluorescence signals …

Owing to the unique electronic spin properties, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers hosted in
diamond have emerged as a powerful quantum tool for detecting various physical …

Using an optical fiber to both excite the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond and collect
its fluorescence is essential to build NV-based endoscope-type sensor. Such endoscope …

Integration of optically active diamond particles with glass fibers is a powerful method of
scaling diamond's magnetic sensing functionality. We propose a novel approach for the …

High-resolution temperature measurement has a wide range of applications in biomedicine,
microelectronics, and so on. Diamond particles with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers can …

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond is regarded as a promising micro-nano scale
thermometer due to its high stability, good temperature resolution and its scope for …