Silicon has the diamond cubic crystal structure with a lattice parameter of 0.543 nm. The nearest neighbor distance is 0.235 nm. The diamond cubic crystal structure has an fcc lattice with a basis of ...

SiV centers consist of a silicon atom positioned between two vacant carbon lattice sites in diamond. The silicon atom is located at the center of a split-vacancy configuration, with the two missing ...

These defects consist of a vacancy (missing carbon atom) and an adjacent impurity atom (such as nitrogen or silicon) in the diamond lattice. Color centers can emit single photons with excellent ...