JYH PIN CHOURetzker, AlexAlexRetzkerGali, AdamAdamGali2024-09-182024-09-182017https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85017559523&origin=resultslisthttps://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/721322The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has shown great promise of nanoscale sensing applications, however, near-surface NV suffer from relatively short spin coherence time that limits its sensitivity. This is presumably caused by improper surface termination. Using first-principles calculations, we propose that nitrogen-terminated (111) diamond provides electrical inactivity and surface spin noise free properties. We anticipate that the nitrogen-terminated (111) surface can be fabricated by nitrogen plasma treatment. Our findings pave the way toward an improved NV-based quantum sensing and quantum simulation operating at room temperature. © 2017 American Chemical Society.(111) diamond surfaceN-terminated surfacenitrogen vacancyquantum sensingquantum simulator[SDGs]SDG6journal article10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b050232-s2.0-85017559523