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Single photon emitter (SPE) sources are important building blocks for photonics-based quantum technologies. Recently, the highly bright and versatile SPEs from the two-dimensional insulator material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have…

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Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is gaining interest for potential applications in integrated quantum nanophotonics. Yet, to establish hBN as an integrated photonic platform several cornerstones must be established, including the integration…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Chi Li , Johannes E. Fröch , Milad Nonahal , Thinh N. Tran , Milos Toth , Sejeong Kim , Igor Aharonovich

A patterned structure of monolithic hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on a glass substrate, which can enhance the emission of the embedded single photon emitters (SPEs), is useful for onchip single-photon sources of high-quality. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-04 Shun Cao , Yi Jin , Hongguang Dong , Tingbiao Guo , Jinlong He , Sailing He

Single photon emitters in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising solid-state quantum emitters for photonic applications and quantum networks. Despite their favorable properties, much is still unknown about their…

Optically addressable spins in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) attract widespread attention for their potential advantage in on-chip quantum devices, such as quantum sensors and quantum network. A variety of spin defects have…

We propose and design photonic crystal cavities (PCCs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) for diverse photonic and quantum applications. Two dimensional (2D) hBN flakes contain quantum emitters which are ultra-bright and photostable at room…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Sejeong Kim , Milos Toth , Igor Aharonovich

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising building blocks for the realization of integrated quantum photonic systems. However, their spectral inhomogeneity currently limits their potential applications. Here, we apply…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-13 Noah Mendelson , Marcus Doherty , Milos Toth , Igor Aharonovich , Toan Trong Tran

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a tantalizing material for solid-state quantum engineering. Analogously to three-dimensional wide-bandgap semiconductors like diamond, h-BN hosts isolated defects exhibiting visible fluorescence, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 Annemarie L. Exarhos , David A. Hopper , Richard R. Grote , Audrius Alkauskas , Lee C. Bassett

Quantum emitters in van der Waals (vdW) materials have attracted lots of attentions in recent years, and shown great potentials to be fabricated as quantum photonic nanodevices. Especially, the single photon emitter (SPE) in hexagonal boron…

Artificial atomic systems in solids are becoming increasingly important building blocks in quantum information processing and scalable quantum nanophotonic networks. Yet, synthesis of color centers that act as single photon emitters which…

Quantum emitters in layered hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently attracted a great attention as promising single photon sources. In this work, we demonstrate resonant excitation of a single defect center in hBN, one of the most…

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,…

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently emerged as promising bright single photon sources. In this letter we investigate in details their optical properties at cryogenic temperatures. In particular, we perform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Bernd Sontheimer , Merle Braun , Niko Nikolay , Nikola Sadzak , Igor Aharonovich , Oliver Benson

The integration of membranes into optical resonators plays a key role in a variety of applications, including optomechanics. If such membranes host atom-like systems, ideally with access to spin states, new roads in quantum photonics and…

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Artificial atomic systems in solids such as single photon emitters are becoming increasingly important building blocks in quantum information processing and scalable quantum nanophotonic networks. Here, we report on a controllable way to…

Electron spins coupled with optical transitions in solids stand out as a promising platform for developing spin-based quantum technologies. Recently, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) - a layered Van der Waals (vdW) crystal, has emerged as a…

Point defects in hexagonal boron nitride have emerged as a promising quantum light source due to their bright and photostable room temperature emission. In this work, we study the incorporation of quantum emitters during chemical vapor…

Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently emerged as promising candidates for a new wave of quantum applications. Thanks to hBN's high stability and 2-dimensional (2D) layered structure, color centers in hBN can serve as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Sumukh Vaidya , Xingyu Gao , Saakshi Dikshit , Igor Aharonovich , Tongcang Li

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…

Defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibit single-photon emission (SPE) and are thus attracting broad interest as platforms for quantum information and spintronic applications. However, the atomic structure and the specific impact of…