Scalable Integration of Cavity-Enhanced Silicon Vacancy Centers on a CMOS-Compatible 4H-SiCOI Platform
Scalable solid-state quantum sensors require simultaneous advances in spin-readout fidelity, photon collection efficiency, and device-level integration, which so far have remained elusive on most material platforms. Here, we overcome these limitations by coupling silicon vacancy spin centers to an array of circular Bragg grating cavities on a scalable thin-film silicon carbide-on-insulator (4H-SiCOI) platform. By employing anti-Stokes excitation, we show that the cavity-enhanced emission compensates for intrinsically weak anti-Stokes absorption, yielding a 24.6-fold increase in collected fluorescence, a high 1.78% spin-readout contrast at zero field, and a 6.42-fold improvement in magnetometry sensitivity. This high spin-readout fidelity further enables the spectroscopic resolution of intrinsic dark-spin bath interactions in 4H-SiCOI, revealing the underlying decoherence mechanisms. Our work establishes cavity-enhanced anti-Stokes excitation as a general and feasible route for silicon carbide quantum technologies, paving the way for scalable manufacturing of spin-based quantum sensors and integrated photonic circuits.
Authors
- Tianyuan Cui
- Chengli Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2894-6439)
- J Zhang
- Xiuqi Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8606-7105)
- Lei Hou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1077-6147)
- B Yang
- Y C Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7306-1053)
- X Li
- Yuanhao Qin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1645-1503)
- Ailun Yi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8244-8866)
- Xuqiang Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7085-5971)
- Bowen Chen
- Wei Lu
- Xin Ou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0316-9958)
Institutions
- University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- ShanghaiTech University (CN)
- Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (CN)
- Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (CN)
- Heinz Optical Engineering (United States) (US)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nano Letters
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6c00613
- Primary Topic
- Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- National Key Research and Development Program of China