Patents by Inventor Andrew Mark EDMONDS
Andrew Mark EDMONDS has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240094004Abstract: A system and sensor device for determining geolocation data. A plurality of nodes, each at a predetermined location is provided. Each node emits a time-varying magnetic field, each time-varying magnetic field having a characteristic identifying the node. A sensor device comprises a magnetometer, the magnetometer configured to detect the time-varying magnetic field from at least one of the plurality of nodes, the magnetometer comprising diamond comprising at least one quantum spin defect. The sensor device has a processor configured to determine the identifying characteristic from the sensed time-varying magnetic field, and is further configured to determine geolocation data on the basis of at least the determined identifying characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: ELEMENT SIX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Andrew Mark Edmonds, Matthew Lee Markham
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Publication number: 20240060210Abstract: Single crystal CVD diamond material comprising a total nitrogen concentration of at least 5 ppm and a neutral single substitutional nitrogen, Ns0, to total single substitutional nitrogen, Ns, ratio of at least 0.7. Such a diamond is observed to have a relatively low amount of brown colouration despite the relatively high concentration of nitrogen. A method of making the single crystal diamond is also disclosed, the method including growing the CVD diamond in process gases comprising 60 to 200 ppm nitrogen, in addition to a carbon-containing gas, and hydrogen, wherein the ratio of carbon atoms in the carbon-containing gas to hydrogen atoms in the hydrogen gas is 0.5 to 1.5%.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: ELEMENT SIX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Andrew Mark Edmonds, Matthew Lee Markham, Pierre-Olivier Francois Marc Colard
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Patent number: 11821107Abstract: Single crystal CVD diamond material comprising a total nitrogen concentration of at least 5 ppm and a neutral single substitutional nitrogen. Ns0, to total single substitutional nitrogen, Ns, ratio of at least 0.7. Such a diamond is observed to have a relatively low amount of brown colouration despite the relatively high concentration of nitrogen A method of making the single crystal diamond is also disclosed, the method including growing the CVD diamond in process gases comprising 60 to 200 ppm nitrogen, in addition to a carbon-containing gas, and hydrogen, wherein the ratio of carbon atoms in the carbon-containing gas to hydrogen atoms in the hydrogen gas is 0.5 to 1.5%.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Element Six Technologies LimitedInventors: Andrew Mark Edmonds, Matthew Lee Markham, Pierre-Olivier Francois Marc Colard
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Patent number: 11807955Abstract: A synthetic diamond material comprises a surface, wherein the surface comprises a first surface region comprising a first concentration of quantum spin defects. A second surface region has a predetermined area and is located adjacent to the first surface region, the second region comprising a second concentration of quantum spin defects. The first concentration of quantum spin defects is at least ten times greater than the second concentration of quantum spin defects, and at least one of the first or second surface regions comprises chemical vapour deposition, CVD, synthetic diamond. A method of producing the synthetic diamond material is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Element Six Technologies LimitedInventors: Matthew Lee Markham, Andrew Mark Edmonds
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Patent number: 11396715Abstract: A single crystal diamond material comprising: neutral nitrogen-vacancy defects (NV0); negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defects (NV?); and single substitutional nitrogen defects (Ns) which transfer their charge to the neutral nitrogen-vacancy defects (NV0) to convert them into the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defects (NV), characterized in that the single crystal diamond material has a magnetometry figure of merit (FOM) of at least 2, wherein the magnetometry figure of merit is defined by (I) where R is a ratio of concentrations of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defects to neutral nitrogen-vacancy defects ([NV?]/[NV0]), [NV?] is the concentration of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defects measured in parts-per-million (ppm) atoms of the single crystal diamond material, [NV0] is a concentration of neutral nitrogen-vacancy defects measured in parts-per-million (ppm) atoms of the single crystal diamond material, and T2? is a decoherence time of the NV? defects, where T2? is T2* for DC magnetomeType: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignees: Element Six Technologies Limited, Element Six Technologies US CorporationInventors: Wilbur Lew, Gregory Bruce, Andrew Mark Edmonds, Matthew Lee Markham, Alastair Douglas Stacey, Harpreet Kaur Dhillon
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Publication number: 20220154366Abstract: Single crystal CVD diamond material comprising a total nitrogen concentration of at least 5 ppm and a neutral single substitutional nitrogen. Ns0, to total single substitutional nitrogen, Ns, ratio of at least 0.7. Such a diamond is observed to have a relatively low amount of brown colouration despite the relatively high concentration of nitrogen A method of making the single crystal diamond is also disclosed, the method including growing the CVD diamond in process gases comprising 60 to 200 ppm nitrogen, in addition to a carbon-containing gas, and hydrogen, wherein the ratio of carbon atoms in the carbon-containing gas to hydrogen atoms in the hydrogen gas is 0.5 to 1.5%.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: ELEMENT SIX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: ANDREW MARK EDMONDS, MATTHEW LEE MARKHAM, PIERRE-OLIVIER FRANCOIS MARC COLARD
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Publication number: 20220154368Abstract: A method of forming a diamond composite body and the diamond composite body. A first single crystal diamond body is provided, which contains nitrogen and has a uniform strain such that over an area of at least 1×1 mm, at least 90 percent of points display a modulus of strain-induced shift of NV resonance of less than 200 kHz, wherein each point in the area is a resolved region of 50 ?m2. The first single crystal diamond body is treated to convert at least some of the nitrogen to form at least 0.3 ppm nitrogen-vacancy, NV?, centres. A CVD process is used to grow a second single crystal diamond body on a surface of the first single crystal diamond body. The second single crystal diamond body has an NV concentration less than or equal to 10 times lower than the NV? concentration in the first single crystal diamond body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: ELEMENT SIX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: ANDREW MARK EDMONDS, PIERRE-OLIVIER FRANCOIS MARC COLARD, MATTHEW LEE MARKHAM
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Publication number: 20210108333Abstract: A single crystal CVD diamond material is disclosed, the material comprising a total nitrogen concentration of at least 3 ppm as measured by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS); and a low optical birefringence such that in a sample of the single crystal CVD diamond material having an area of at least 1.3 mm×1.3 mm, and measured using a pixel size of area in a range 1×1 ?m2 to 20×20 ?m2, a maximum value of ?n[average] does not exceed 1.5×10?4, where ?n[average] is an average value of a difference between refractive index for light polarised parallel to slow and fast axes averaged over the sample thickness. A method of making the material is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2017Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: ELEMENT SIX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: MATTHEW LEE MARKHAM, ANDREW MARK EDMONDS, HARPREET KAUR DHILLON, DAVID WILLIAM HARDEMAN
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Publication number: 20210054526Abstract: A single crystal diamond material comprising: neutral nitrogen-vacancy defects (NV0); negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defects (NV?); and single substitutional nitrogen defects (Ns) which transfer their charge to the neutral nitrogen-vacancy defects (NV0) to convert them into the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defects (NV), characterized in that the single crystal diamond material has a magnetometry figure of merit (FOM) of at least 2, wherein the magnetometry figure of merit is defined by (I) where R is a ratio of concentrations of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defects to neutral nitrogen-vacancy defects ([NV?]/[NV0]), [NV?] is the concentration of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defects measured in parts-per-million (ppm) atoms of the single crystal diamond material, [NV0] is a concentration of neutral nitrogen-vacancy defects measured in parts-per-million (ppm) atoms of the single crystal diamond material, and T2? is a decoherence time of the NV? defects, where T2? is T2* for DC magnetomeType: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Wilbur LEW, Gregory BRUCE, Andrew Mark EDMONDS, Matthew Lee MARKHAM, Alastair Douglas STACEY, Harpreet Kaur DHILLON
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Publication number: 20200347515Abstract: A synthetic diamond material comprises a surface, wherein the surface comprises a first surface region comprising a first concentration of quantum spin defects. A second surface region has a predetermined area and is located adjacent to the first surface region, the second region comprising a second concentration of quantum spin defects. The first concentration of quantum spin defects is at least ten times greater than the second concentration of quantum spin defects, and at least one of the first or second surface regions comprises chemical vapour deposition, CVD, synthetic diamond. A method of producing the synthetic diamond material is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: ELEMENT SIX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: MATTHEW LEE MARKHAM, ANDREW MARK EDMONDS
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Publication number: 20200277196Abstract: Disclosed are synthetic diamond materials for quantum and optical applications, such as quantum information processing, quantum key distribution, quantum repeaters, and quantum sensing devices, based on spin defects in diamond. This includes methods for synthesizing and treating diamond in order to create spin defects with improved spin coherence and optical emission properties, as well as treating the diamond to eliminate unwanted defects that degrade these properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: The Trustees of Princeton UniversityInventors: Nathalie de LEON, Brendon C. ROSE, Ding HUANG, Zi-Huai ZHANG, Alexei M. TYRYSHKIN, Sorawis SANGTAWESIN, Srikanth SRINIVASAN, Matthew Lee MARKHAM, Andrew Mark EDMONDS, Daniel J. TWITCHEN, Stephen A. LYON