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ArticleScience advances2022

Enhanced quantum sensing with room-temperature solid-state masers.

Hao Wu, Shuo Yang, Mark Oxborrow, Min Jiang, Qing Zhao, Dmitry Budker, Bo Zhang, Jiangfeng Du

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Article in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Semiconductor room-temperature maser.Nature communications · 2026
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  3. Topological radiation from vortex masers.Nature communications · 2025
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  4. LED-pumped room-temperature solid-state maser.Communications engineering · 2025
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  5. Amplification mechanism with interacting atomic gases.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. N-Heteroacenes as an Organic Gain Medium for Room-Temperature Masers.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2023
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8 authors.

Hao WuCenter for Quantum Technology Research and Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements (MOE), School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0856-5965
Shuo YangCenter for Quantum Technology Research and Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements (MOE), School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5920-548X
Mark OxborrowDepartment of Materials, Imperial College London, South Kensington SW7 2AZ, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3922-0863
Min JiangCAS Key Laboratory of Microscale Magnetic Resonance and School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6945-9907
Qing ZhaoCenter for Quantum Technology Research and Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements (MOE), School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2836-6090
Dmitry BudkerJohannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz 55128, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7356-4814
Bo ZhangCenter for Quantum Technology Research and Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements (MOE), School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9975-9639
Jiangfeng DuCAS Key Laboratory of Microscale Magnetic Resonance and School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8085-8012

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantum sensing with solid-state electron spin systems finds broad applications in diverse areas ranging from material and biomedical sciences to fundamental physics. Exploiting collective behavior of noninteracting spins holds the promise of pushing the detection limit to even lower levels, while to date, those levels are scarcely reached because of the broadened linewidth and inefficient readout of solid-state spin ensembles. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that such drawbacks can be overcome by a reborn maser technology at room temperature in the solid state. Owing to maser action, we observe a fourfold reduction in the electron paramagnetic resonance linewidth of an inhomogeneously broadened molecular spin ensemble, which is narrower than the same measured from single spins at cryogenic temperatures. The maser-based readout applied to near zero-field magnetometry showcases the measurement signal-to-noise ratio of 133 for single shots. This technique would be an important addition to the toolbox for boosting the sensitivity of solid-state ensemble spin sensors.

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