{"id":238682,"date":"2026-06-10T02:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/new-buried-growth-process-enables-2d-arrays-of-position-and-orientation-controlled-diamond-qubits"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:26:55","slug":"new-buried-growth-process-enables-2d-arrays-of-position-and-orientation-controlled-diamond-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/new-buried-growth-process-enables-2d-arrays-of-position-and-orientation-controlled-diamond-qubits","title":{"rendered":"New buried-growth process enables 2D arrays of position- and orientation-controlled diamond qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-buried-growth-process-enables-2d-arrays-of-position-and-orientation-controlled-diamond-qubits3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Kanazawa University, in collaboration with Diamond and <i>Carbon<\/i> Applications (Germany), have developed a buried-growth process for nitrogen\u2013vacancy (NV) centers in diamond using microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD). By employing nitrogen-radical selective etching, which simultaneously enhances metal-mask durability through nitridation, the team enabled a continuous etching\u2013growth sequence within a single MPCVD process.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0008622326000813\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Carbon.<\/p>\n<p>Optical measurements confirmed highly aligned NV centers selectively buried in predefined regions. This integrated approach provides a stable and scalable platform for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-crystal-flaws-quantum-highways-route.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">orientation-controlled diamond qubits<\/a> and future room-temperature quantum technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Kanazawa University, in collaboration with Diamond and Carbon Applications (Germany), have developed a buried-growth process for nitrogen\u2013vacancy (NV) centers in diamond using microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD). By employing nitrogen-radical selective etching, which simultaneously enhances metal-mask durability through nitridation, the team enabled a continuous etching\u2013growth sequence within a single MPCVD process. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}