Bottom-up Engineering of Diamond Nanostructures

TL;DR

This paper presents a bottom-up method for fabricating diamond nanostructures with precise control, enabling complex photonic and sensing applications through patterned nanoscale single crystal diamond growth.

Contribution

It introduces a novel bottom-up approach for creating diamond nanostructures with controlled periodicity and optical properties, expanding fabrication capabilities beyond top-down methods.

Findings

Successful growth of patterned nanoscale single crystal diamond

Demonstration of periodic structures and optical waveguiding

Potential applications in photonics and sensing

Abstract

Engineering nanostructures from the bottom up enables the creation of carefully engineered complex structures that are not accessible via top down fabrication techniques, in particular, complex periodic structures for applications in photonics and sensing. In this work, we propose and demonstrate a bottom up approach that can be adopted and utilized to controllably build diamond nanostructures. A realization of periodic structures and optical wave-guiding is achieved by growing nanoscale single crystal diamond through a defined pattern.