Diamond: Materials, Devices and Applications

Dear colleagues,

Recent years have seen tremendous advances in diamond-based technologies. These advances have triggered novel applications in fields spanning from quantum technologies, (quantum) sensing, photonics, and NEMS and MEMS devices, and find applications in many fields of research, such as the life sciences and material sciences. Many recent advances fostered by novel insights into color centers in diamonds often functionalize diamond devices, advances in available diamond materials, novel device designs, and novel approaches to apply to diamonds. In this Special Issue, we would like to highlight recent developments in this emerging and strongly interdisciplinary field. We consequently invite contributions from various aspects of diamond micro- and nanotechnologies, including but not restricted to material aspects (synthesis, nanomaterials, hybrid materials), device fabrication, device functionalization (color centers, surfaces etc.), and device design as well as applications of diamond technologies in various fields. We also encourage submissions on numerical and theory work on the above topics with a strong link to applications and technology.

This Special Issue will provide a highly visible, multi-disciplinary open access collection of recent advances from various fields of diamond-based technologies.

Jun.-Prof. Elke Neu
Dr. Štěpán Potocký
Guest Editor

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