1.       “Molecular Quantum Nanosensors Functioning in Living Cells”,

Hitoshi Ishiwata†*, Jiarui Song†, Yoko Shigeno, Koki Nishimura, Nobuhiro Yanai*, ChemRxiv DOI:10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-k7db1 (2025).

2.       “Biological Nano Quantum Sensors, Quantum Technology-Based Hyperpolarized MRI/NMR, Quantum Biology, and Quantum Biotechnology”,

Hiroshi Yukawa*, Hidetoshi Kono*, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Ryuji Igarashi, Yoichi Takakusagi, Shigeki Arai, Yu Hirano, Tetsuya Suhara, Yoshinobu Baba*, Chem. Soc. Rev., DOI:10.1039/D4CS00650J (2025).

1.       “Bright quantum-grade fluorescent nanodiamonds”,

Keisuke Oshimi†, Hitoshi Ishiwata†, Hiromu Nakashima, Sara Mandić, Hina Kobayashi, Minori Teramoto, Hirokazu Tsuji, Yoshiki Nishibayashi, Yutaka Shikano, Toshu An, Masazumi Fujiwara, ACS Nano 18(52) 35202-35213 (2024).

2.       “Fast coherent control of nitrogen-14 spins associated with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds using dynamical decoupling”,

Kosuke Mizuno, Ikuya Fujisaki, Hiroyoshi Tomioka, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Shinobu Onoda, Takayuki Iwasaki, Keigo Arai, Mutsuko Hatano, Journal of Physics Communications, 8(3), 035002 (2024).

3.       “High growth rate synthesis of diamond film containing perfectly aligned nitrogen-vacancy centers by high-power density plasma CVD”,

Takeyuki Tsuji, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Takeharu Sekiguchi, Takayuki Iwasaki, Mutsuko Hatano, Diamond and Related Materials, 123, 108840 (2022).

4.       “Label-Free Phase change detection of Lipid Bilayers using Nanoscale diamond magnetometry”, 

       Hitoshi Ishiwata*, Hiroshi Watanabe, Shinya Hanashima, Takayuki Iwasaki and Mutsuko Hatano, Advanced Quantum Technology, 4, 2000106 (2021).

5.       “Thermometric quantum sensor using excited state of silicon vacancy centers in 4H-SiC devices”, 

       Tuan Minh Hoang, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Yuta Masuyama, Yuichi Yamazaki, Kazutoshi Kojima, Sang-Yun Lee, Takeshi Ohshima, Takayuki Iwasaki, Digh Hisamoto, Mutusko Hatano, Applied Physics Letters, 118, 044001 (2021).

6.       “Simultaneous wide-field imaging of phase and magnitude of AC magnetic signal using diamond quantum magnetometry”,

Kosuke Mizuno, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Yuta Masuyama, Takayuki Iwasaki, Mutsuko Hatano, Scientific Reports, 10, 11611 (2020).

7.       “Nanodiamond Integration with Photonic Devices”,

M. Radulaski, J. L. Zhang, Y. K. Tzeng, K. G. Lagoudakis, H. Ishiwata, C. Dory, K. A. Fischer, Y. A. Kelaita, S. Sun, P. C. Maurer, K. Alassaad, G. Ferro, Z. X. Shen, N. A. Melosh, S. Chu, J. Vučković, Laser and Photonics Reviews, 13, 1800316 (2019).

8.       “Experimental measurement of the diamond nucleation landscape reveals classical and nonclassical features”,

Matthew A. Gebbie, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Patrick McQuade, Vaclav Petrak, Andy Taylor, Christopher Freiwald, Jeremy E. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Andrey A. Fokin, Peter R. Schreiner, Zhi-Xun Shen, Milos Nesladek, Nicholas A. Melosh, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 115, 8284-8289 (2018).

9.       “Functionalisation of Detonation Nanodiamond for Monodispersed,Soluble DNA-Nanodiamond Conjugates Using Mixed Silane Bead-Assisted Sonication Disintegration”,

Robert Edgington, Katelyn M. Spillane, George Papageorgiou, William Wray, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Mariana Labarca, Sergio Leal-Ortiz, Gordon Reid, Martin Webb, John Foord, Nicholas Melosh & Andreas T. Schaefer, Scientific Reports, 8, 728 (2018).

10.    “Diamond color center integration with a silicon carbide photonics platform”,

Marina Radulaski, Yan-Kai Tzeng, Jingyuan Linda Zhang, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis, Constantin Dory, Kevin A. Fischer, Yousif A. Kelaita, Shuo Sun, Peter C. Maurer, Kassem Alassaad, Gabriel Ferro, Zhi-Xun Shen, Nicholas A. Melosh, Steven Chu, Jelena Vučković, OSA Technical Digest, JTh3C.5 (2018).

11.     “Perfectly Aligned Shallow Ensemble Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in (111) Diamond”,

Hitoshi Ishiwata, Makoto Nakajima, Kosuke Tahara, Hayato Ozawa, Takayuki Iwasaki, Mutsuko Hatano, Applied Physics Letters, 111, 043103 (2017).

12.     “Vertical-Substrate MPCVD Epitaxial Nanodiamond Growth”,

Yan-Kai Tzeng, Jingyuan Linda Zhang, Haiyu Lu, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Jeremy Dahl, Robert MK Carlson, Hao Yan, Peter R Schreiner, Jelena Vučković, Zhi-Xun Shen, Nicholas Melosh, Steven Chu, Nano Letter, 17, 1489-1495 (2017).

13.     “Hybrid group IV nanophotonic structures incorporating diamond Silicon-Vacancy Color Centers”,

J Zhang†, H Ishiwata†, T Babinec, M Radulaski, K Muller, K Lagoudakis, C Dory, J Dahl, R Edgington, V Souliere, G Ferro, A Fokin, P Schreiner, Z.X. Shen, N Melosh, J Vučković, Nano Letter, 16, 212–217 (2016).

14.    “Low Strain Silicon-Vacancy Color Centers in Diamond Nanopillar Arrays”,

J Zhang, H Ishiwata, T Babinec, M Radulaski, K Muller, K Lagoudakis, C Dory, Z.X. Shen, N Melosh, J Vučković, OSA Technical Digest, SM1R.8 (2016).

15.    “Diamondoid coating enables disruptive approach for chemical and magnetic imaging with 10 nm spatial resolution”,

H Ishiwata, Y Acremann, A Scholl, E Rotenberg, O Hellwig, E Dobisz, A Doran, B Tkachenko, A Fokin, P Schreiner, J. Dahl, R Carlson, N Melosh, ZX Shen, H Ohldag, Applied Physics Letters, 101, 163101-1-5 (2012).