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We demonstrate a post-fabrication method that deterministically integrates hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) single-photon emitters (SPEs) onto silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides. Mechanically exfoliated hBN flakes are dry-transferred onto…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-29 Daiki Yamashita , Masaki Yumoto , Aiko Narazaki , Makoto Okano

Defect-based quantum emitters in solid state materials offer a promising platform for quantum communication and sensing. Confocal fluorescence microscopy techniques have revealed quantum emitters in a multitude of host materials. In some…

Hexagonal boron nitride is a van der Waals material that hosts visible-wavelength quantum emitters at room temperature. However, experimental identification of the quantum emitters' electronic structure is lacking, and key details of their…

Dielectric integration of layered semiconductors is a prerequisite for fabricating high-quality optoelectronic, valleytronic, and quantum-photonic devices. While hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is the current benchmark dielectric, exploration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Jithin T Surendran , Indrajeet D Prasad , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Santosh Kumar

Defect centers in hexagonal boron nitride represent room-temperature single-photon sources in a layered van der Waals material. These light emitters appear with a wide range of transition energies ranging over the entire visible spectrum,…

Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) advantageously combine excellent photophysical properties with a potential for integration in highly compact devices. Progress towards scalable integration necessitates a high quantum…

Spin defects in two-dimensional materials hold significant potential for quantum information technologies and sensing applications. The negatively charged boron vacancy (VB-) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has attracted considerable…

Single-photon emitters play an essential role in quantum technologies, including quantum computing and quantum communications. Atomic defects in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have recently emerged as new room-temperature single-photon…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-16 Gichang Noh , Daebok Choi , Jin-Hun Kim , Dong-Gil Im , Yoon-Ho Kim , Hosung Seo , Jieun Lee

In recent years, mono-layers and multi-layers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have been demonstrated as host materials for localized atomic defects that can be used as emitters for ultra-bright, non-classical light. The origin of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Alexander Bommer , Christoph Becher

Recent observation of quantum emitters in monolayers of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has provided a novel platform for optomechanical experiments where the single-photon emitters can couple to the motion of freely suspended h-BN membrane.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Mehdi Abdi , Martin B. Plenio

Single fluorescent molecules embedded in the bulk of host crystals have proven to be excellent probes of the dynamics in their nano environment, thanks to their narrow (about 0.1 {\mu}eV) optical linewidth of the 0-0 zero-phonon line (0-0…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Robert Smit , Arash Tebyani , Jil Hameury , Sense Jan van der Molen , Michel Orrit

Among a variety of layered materials used as building blocks in van der Waals heterostructures, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) appears as an ideal platform for hosting optically-active defects owing to its large bandgap ($\sim 6$ eV). Here…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-28 L. J. Martínez , T. Pelini , V. Waselowski , J. R. Maze , B. Gil , G. Cassabois , V. Jacques

Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising candidates as quantum light sources for future technologies. In this work, we utilize a scattering-type near-field optical microscope (s-SNOM) to study the photoluminescence (PL)…

This report summarizes progress made in understanding properties such as zero-phonon-line energies, emission and absorption polarizations, electron-phonon couplings, strain tuning and hyperfine coupling of single photon emitters in…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 A. Sajid , Michael J. Ford , Jeffrey R. Reimers

Quantum emitters in layered materials are promising candidates for applications in nanophotonics. Here we present a technique based on charge transfer to graphene for measuring the charge transition levels ($\rm E_t$) of fluorescent defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-02 Zai-Quan Xu , Noah Mendelson , John A. Scott , Chi Li , Igor Aharonovich , Milos Toth

Defects in solid-state systems constitute a promising platform for the realization of deterministic quantum emitters. Among many candidate materials and emitters, point defects in hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) have recently emerged as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Jake Horder , Hugo Quard , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Nathan Coste , Igor Aharonovich

A global trend to miniaturization and multiwavelength performance of nanophotonic devices drives research on novel phenomena, such as bound states in the continuum and Mietronics, as well as the survey for high-refractive index and strongly…

The ability to locally activate or generate quantum emitters in two-dimensional materials is of major interest for the realization of integrated quantum photonic devices. In particular, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently been shown…

Understanding the collective behavior of the quasiparticles in solid-state systems underpins the field of non-volatile electronics, including the opportunity to control many-body effects for well-desired physical phenomena and their…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a promising material platform for nanophotonics and quantum sensing, hosting optically-active defects with exceptional properties such as high brightness and large spectral tuning. However,…