Isotope-Engineered
Diamond
¹²C-enriched diamond with strongly reduced ¹³C nuclear-spin background, combined with controlled ¹⁴N / ¹⁵N doping for high-coherence NV research and isotope-defined quantum structures.
Remove one of the dominant
spin-noise backgrounds.
Natural-abundance diamond contains ¹³C nuclear spins. Increasing the ¹²C fraction strongly reduces this nuclear-spin bath, giving the NV center a cleaner magnetic environment for coherence-sensitive measurements.
Natural abundance vs ¹²C-enriched diamond
The objective is not simply chemical purity. It is control over the spin environment surrounding the defect.
Suppress the ¹³C bath
Lower nuclear-spin noise can support longer NV coherence and cleaner spin dynamics.
Control the nitrogen isotope
Choose the implanted or doped nitrogen isotope around the experimental protocol and defect-identification strategy.
Engineered active layer
A micrometer-scale isotope-enriched layer offers controlled composition with a substantially larger active volume than a shallow implanted layer.
Typical NV configurations
Representative ensemble densities balance coherence and signal according to the application.
Control carbon isotope,
nitrogen isotope and active volume.
Nova can combine ¹²C enrichment with engineered nitrogen isotope and NV concentration in either a quantum-active layer or a bulk material configuration.
¹²C-Enriched Bulk
Bulk isotope-enriched single-crystal diamond for experiments requiring a larger quantum-active volume.
¹²C Epitaxial Layer
Typical 1–20 μm isotope-enriched CVD active layer on an electronic-grade diamond substrate.
¹⁴N / ¹⁵N Control
Controlled nitrogen isotope for engineered NV centers, custom layers and isotope-tagged defect structures.
Configure the spin environment.
Material design can be tuned across carbon isotope purity, nitrogen isotope, NV concentration, active-layer thickness, orientation and surface preparation.
For experiments where
coherence is part of the design.
Isotope-engineered diamond is useful when the nuclear-spin environment, NV density and active-volume geometry all need deliberate control.
High-Coherence Spin Studies
Reduced ¹³C spin bath for coherence-sensitive NV spin physics and pulse-sequence experiments.
Quantum Sensing
High-sensitivity magnetometry and other ensemble sensing where material noise and spin coherence matter.
Wide-Field Imaging
Engineered ¹²C active layers with controlled NV concentration for spatially resolved magnetic imaging.
Quantum Information
Isotope-controlled host material for spin registers, hybrid quantum systems and advanced defect research.
Microwave & Spin Resonance
Material platforms for ensemble resonance, maser-related research and spin-dynamics experiments.
Build the isotope profile
around the experiment.
Carbon isotope purity, nitrogen isotope, active-layer thickness, NV concentration, crystal orientation and surface chemistry can be combined in one material specification.
Need a custom isotope-engineered diamond?
Send the target ¹²C purity, nitrogen isotope, NV concentration, layer thickness, orientation and device requirements. We can translate them into a material specification.