Publication Date:
2013-02-02
Description:
Application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to nanoscale samples has remained an elusive goal, achieved only with great experimental effort at subkelvin temperatures. We demonstrated detection of NMR signals from a (5-nanometer)(3) voxel of various fluid and solid organic samples under ambient conditions. We used an atomic-size magnetic field sensor, a single nitrogen-vacancy defect center, embedded ~7 nanometers under the surface of a bulk diamond to record NMR spectra of various samples placed on the diamond surface. Its detection volume consisted of only 10(4) nuclear spins with a net magnetization of only 10(2) statistically polarized spins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Staudacher, T -- Shi, F -- Pezzagna, S -- Meijer, J -- Du, J -- Meriles, C A -- Reinhard, F -- Wrachtrup, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Feb 1;339(6119):561-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1231675.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉3rd Physics Institute and Research Center SCoPE, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23372009" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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