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Hexagonal boron nitride is a wide bandgap semiconductor with a very high thermal and chemical stability often used in devices operating under extreme conditions. The growth of high-purity crystals has recently revealed the potential of this…
Quantum microscopes based on solid-state spin quantum sensors have recently emerged as powerful tools for probing material properties and physical processes in regimes not accessible to classical sensors, especially on the nanoscale. Such…
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…
We investigated emission and propagation of polaritons in a two dimensional van der Waals material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Our specific emphasis in this work is on hyperbolic phonon polariton emission that we investigated by means of…
Optically active defects in 2D materials, such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), are an attractive class of single-photon emitters with high brightness, room-temperature operation, site-specific…
The concept of optically addressable spin states of deep level defects in wide band gap materials is successfully applied for the development of quantum technologies. Recently discovered negatively charged boron vacancy defects (VB) in…
Two-dimensional chalcogenide semiconductors have recently emerged as a host material for quantum emitters of single photons. While several reports on defect and strain-induced single photon emission from 2D chalcogenides exist, a bottom-up,…
The integration of van der Waals (vdW) materials into photonic devices has laid out a foundation for many new quantum and optoelectronic applications. Despite tremendous progress in the nanofabrication of photonic building blocks from vdW…
Electrochemical techniques conventionally lack spatial resolution and average local information over an entire electrode. While advancements in spatial resolution have been made through scanning probe methods, monitoring dynamics over large…
Two dimensional materials are becoming increasingly popular as a platform for studies of quantum phenomena and for the production of prototype quantum technologies. Quantum emitters in 2D materials can host two level systems that can act as…
Excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors are directly exposed to the environment and are sensitive to the dielectric properties of their surrounding. Here, we show that the Rydberg series of excited states of excitons in a monolayer…
Optically addressable defect qubits in wide band gap materials are favorable candidates for room temperature quantum information processing. The two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an attractive solid state platform with a…
In this work, we present a detailed photophysical analysis of recently-discovered optically stable, single photon emitters (SPEs) in Gallium Nitride (GaN). Temperature-resolved photoluminescence measurements reveal that the emission lines…
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a precise and non-invasive analytical technique that is widely used in chemical analysis, environmental protection, food processing, pharmaceutics, and diagnostic biology. However, it is still a…
The combination of two-dimensional (2D) materials into heterostructures enabled the formation of atomically thin devices with designed properties. To achieve a high density, bottom-up integration, the growth of these 2D heterostructures via…
The recent discovery of single-photon emitting defects hosted by the two-dimensional wide band gap semiconductor hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has inspired a great number of experiments. Key characteristics of these quantum emitters are…
Sources of pure and indistinguishable single-photons are critical for near-future optical quantum technologies. Recently, color centers hosted by two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as a promising platform for high…