Single NV centers in HPHT IIa diamond are fabricated by helium implantation through lithographic masks. The concentrations of created NV centers in different growth sectors of HPHT are compared quantitatively. It is shown that the purest {001} growth sector (GS) of HPHT diamond allows to create groups of single NV centers in predetermined locations. The {001} GS HPHT diamond is thus considered a good material for applications that involve single NV centers.

We investigate the electron spin resonance of an ensemble of Nitrogen-Vacancy color centers in a bulk diamond crystal obtained by CVD-method. The diamond crystal had 1 ppm concentration of nitrogen. The four possible orientations of the NV-center in the crystal lattice lead to different dependences of a magnitude and an orientation of the external static magnetic field. We used the field of 35 Gauss with the vector in the plane of the crystal. We could rotate it to a certain angle within almost 360 degrees around the normal vector to the plane of the crystal. The goal was to define the unknown orientations of the four axes of the NV-centers relatively to the crystal plane. Experimental results obtained at room temperature with a continuous microwave excitation and presented in this paper are in a good agreement with our simulations.

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A method of vector magnetometry, implemented using a single NV–13C spin system in a diamond, is proposed. The method is based on a priori knowledge of the hyperfine interaction characteristics and on the presence of experimentally measured line positions in the optically detectable magnetic resonance spectrum of such a system. The method was experimentally tested on the NV–13C system, in which the 13С atom is located in the third coordination sphere of the NV center.