Material Engineering
New Materials, New Opportunities
We engineer molecular materials that embed quantum sensors from the ground up. This includes the controlled growth of large, high-quality crystals—such as pentacene-doped naphthalene and p-terphenyl—enabled by a custom growth apparatus. Beyond crystals, we develop new molecular platforms and polymer-based 3D architectures tailored to host quantum sensors, enabling novel device geometries and expanding the versatility of quantum-sensor applications.
Molecular Systems
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Our first pentacene-doped crystal grown in lab!
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Crystal growth setup with 5 furnaces that can run simultaneously
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Pentacene-doped p-terphenyl crystals with varying pentacene concentration (0.3%, 0.1%, 0.05%)
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Comparison of one of our PDP crystals with a representative NV diamond sample
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Cross section of a growth tube for a pentacene-doped crystal
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A PDP crystal held up to the light to show off size and crystallinity
Novel Sensor Host Architecture
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NV nanodiamonds can be embedded in micron scale 3D printed materials
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Micro-3D printed benchy, scale bar of 200 microns
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~200 micron wide gryoid structure with nanodiamond coated surface
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A section of Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” made used “bubble printed” nanodiamonds
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Confocal image of nanodiamonds (NDs) adhered to the surface of a gyroid microstructure.
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Micron-scale 3D printed “benchy” made with nanodiamond embedded resin
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“Bubble printed” UC Berkeley Cal logo
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