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Individual nitrogen centers N0 and nitrogen pairs N +2 have been detected and identified in natural diamond nanocrystals by means of the high-frequency electron spin resonance method. The N0 nitrogen centers have been observed in synthetic diamond nanocrystallites with a size of less than 10 nm produced by high-temperature high-pressure sintering of detonation nanodiamonds. Thus, the possibility of the stable state of impurity nitrogen atoms in diamond nanoparticles has been demonstrated.
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Original Russian Text © P.G. Baranov, I.V. Il’in, A.A. Soltamova, A.Ya. Vul’, S.V. Kidalov, F.M. Shakhov, G.V. Mamin, S.B. Orlinskii, M.Kh. Salakhov, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 89, No. 8, pp. 473–477.
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Baranov, P.G., Il’in, I.V., Soltamova, A.A. et al. Electron spin resonance detection and identification of nitrogen centers in nanodiamonds. Jetp Lett. 89, 409–413 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364009080074
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