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A portable LED-based diamond magnetometer for outreach and teaching labs

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Authors: Hollis Williams, Alex Newman, Stuart Graham, Colin Stephen, Gavin Morley

Year

2025

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16341

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Preprint

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We present a compact, low-cost version of an NV center diamond magnetometer which replaces the standard green laser with a high-power LED. This modification improves safety, reduces cost, and allows the green excitation and red photoluminescence to be viewed directly during demonstrations. The device is simple to assemble and suitable for outreach activities and undergraduate laboratories. We show that it can produce ODMR spectra and respond to nearby magnetic objects, with a sensitivity on the order of 1 μT/sqrt{Hz}. Supplementary material provides details of the construction and suggestions for student investigations to support use in teaching laboratories.

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We present a compact, low-cost version of an NV center diamond magnetometer which replaces the standard green laser with a high-power LED.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:2512.03106 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03106 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03106

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