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The non-equilibrium boron nitride (BN) phase of zinc oxide (ZnO) has been reported for thin films and nanostructures, however, its properties are not well understood due to a persistent controversy that prevents reconciling experimental and…

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Coherent coupling of defect spins with surrounding nuclei along with the endowment to read out the latter, are basic requirements for an application in quantum technologies. We show that negatively charged boron vacancies (VB-) in…

Point defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising candidates as single-photon emitters (SPEs) in nanophotonics and quantum information applications. The precise control of SPEs requires in-depth understanding of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-13 Shimin Zhang , Kejun Li , Chunhao Guo , Yuan Ping

Solid-state single-photon emitters (SPEs) such as the bright, stable, room-temperature defects within hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are of increasing interest for quantum information science applications. To date, the atomic and electronic…

Coherent quantum emitters are a central resource for advanced quantum technologies. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) hosts a range of quantum emitters that can be engineered using techniques such as high-temperature annealing, optical doping,…

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has been recently found to host a variety of quantum point defects, which are promising candidates as single-photon sources for solid-state quantum nanophotonics applications. Most recently, optically…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-09 Jooyong Bhang , He Ma , Donggyu Yim , Giulia Galli , Hosung Seo

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as an essential material for the encapsulation layer in van der Waals heterostructures and efficient deep ultra-violet optoelectronics. This is primarily due to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Suk Hyun Kim , Kyeong Ho Park , Young Gie Lee , Seong Jun Kang , Yongsup Park , Young Duck Kim

Defect-based single-photon emitters (SPEs) in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) are promising platforms for integrated quantum photonics; however, the absence of identified emitters operating at telecom wavelengths remains a critical…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Kerem Anar , Berna Akgenc Hanedar , Roya Kavkhani , Mehmet Cengiz Onbasli

Extensive photochemical and spectroscopic properties of the $V_B^-$ defect in hexagonal boron nitride are calculated, concluding that the observed photoemission associated with recently observed optically-detected magnetic resonance is most…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an emerging two dimensional material for quantum photonics owing to its large bandgap and hyperbolic properties. Here we report a broad range of multicolor room temperature single photon emissions across the…

Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have attracted considerable attention due to their remarkable optical properties enabling robust room temperature photonics and quantum optics applications in the visible spectral range. On the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Ádám Ganyecz , Rohit Babar , Zsolt Benedek , Igor Aharonovich , Gergely Barcza , Viktor Ivády

The structural modifications of polycrystalline hexagonal boron nitride implanted with He+ ion beams at energies between 200 keV and 1.2 MeV to fluences of 1.0 \times 1017 ions \cdot cm-2 were investigated using micro-Raman spectroscopy.…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-08 Ronald Machaka , Rudolph M Erasmus , Trevor E Derry

B-centres in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are gaining significant research interest for quantum photonics applications due to precise emitter positioning and highly reproducible emission wavelengths. Here, we leverage the layered nature of…

Single photon emitters (SPEs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have garnered significant attention over the last few years due to their superior optical properties. However, despite the vast range of experimental results and theoretical…

We theoretically study physical properties of the most promising color center candidates for the recently observed single-photon emissions in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) monolayers. Through our group theory analysis combined with density…

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Defect color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have gained significant interest as single-photon emitters and spin qubits for applications in a wide range of quantum technologies. As the integration of these solid-state quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-23 Madhava Krishna Prasad , Jonathan Paul Goss , Jonathan David Mar

Photocatalytic nitrogen reduction is the promising way for ammonia production, the question now is that the search of highly active and low active catalysts. Based on the first-principles calculation, single boron atom is anchored on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-21 Hao-Ran Zhu , Shi-Hao Wei , Da-Yin Hua

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a wide band gap, van der Waals material that is highly promising for solid-state quantum technologies as a host of optically addressable, paramagnetic spin defects. Intrinsic and extrinsic point defects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Petros-Panagis Filippatos , Tom J. P. Irons , Katherine Inzani

This study explores the properties of nanopowders synthesized under high-temperature, non-equilibrium conditions in a high-flux optical furnace in a nitrogen flow. Boron powders served as the starting material, and the intense thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-14 Lina Sartinska

Optically active defects in solids with accessible spin states are promising candidates for solid state quantum information and sensing applications. To employ these defects as quantum building blocks, coherent manipulation of their spin…