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Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) presents valuable intrinsic properties and attracts considerable attention for the development of novel two-dimensional (2D) materials-based technologies. Even though huge efforts have been made to improve the…
This study investigates into the adsorption sensing capabilities of single-walled (5,5) boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) towards environmental pollutant gas molecules, including CH2, SO2, NH3, H2Se, CO2 and CS2. Employing a linear…
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has attracted significant attention due to its superior properties as well as its potential as an ideal dielectric layer for graphene-based devices. The h-BN films obtained via chemical vapor deposition in…
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a layered dielectric material with a wide range of applications in optics and photonics. In this work, we demonstrate a fabrication method for few-layer hBN flakes with areas up to 5000 $\rm \mu m$. We show…
The scalable synthesis of two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is of great interest for its numerous applications in novel electronic devices. Highly-crystalline h-BN films, with single-crystal sizes up to hundreds of…
Strongly anisotropic media where the principal components of the dielectric tensor have opposite signs are called hyperbolic. Such materials length exhibit unique nanophotonic properties enabled by the highly directional propagation of…
Luminescent defect-centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as a promising 2D-source of single photon emitters (SPEs) due to their high brightness and robust operation at room temperature. The ability to create such emitters…
Two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) that hosts bright room-temperature single-photon emitters (SPEs) is a promising material platform for quantum information applications. An important step towards the practical application of hBN…
The hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) encapsulation has been widely used in the electronics applications of 2D materials to improve device performance by protecting 2D materials against contamination and degradation. It is often assumed that…
The centrifugal mirror confinement scheme incorporates supersonic rotation into a magnetic mirror device, which stabilizes and heats the plasma. This concept is under investigation in the Centrifugal Mirror Fusion Experiment (CMFX) at the…
Hexagonal boron nitride sheets have been noted especially for their enhanced properties as substrates for sp2 carbon-based nanodevices. To evaluate whether such enhanced properties would remain under various realistic conditions, we…
The needs for efficient heat removal and superior thermal conduction in nano/micro devices have triggered tremendous studies in low-dimensional materials with high thermal conductivity. Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is believed to be one…
Hydrogen is an important building block in global strategies towards a future green energy system. To make this transition possible, intense scientific efforts are needed, also in the field of materials science. Two-dimensional crystals,…
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a natural hyperbolic material that supports both volume-confined hyperbolic polaritons (HPs) and sidewall-confined hyperbolic surface polaritons (HSPs). In this work, we demonstrate effective excitation,…
In this paper, we report a new boron nitride molecular structure called BN-nanobelt, an inorganic analog of (12) cyclophenacene synthesized in 2017. An extensive investigation using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Quantum Molecular…
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) plays a central role in nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. Moreover, hBN hosts room-temperature quantum emitters and optically addressable spins, making it promising for quantum sensing and quantum photonics.…
Boron nitride is a promising material for nanotechnology applications due to its two-dimensional graphene-like, insulating, and highly-resistant structure. Recently it has received a lot of attention as a substrate to grow and isolate…
Integration of individual two-dimensional materials into heterostructures is a crucial step which enables development of new and technologically interesting functional systems of reduced dimensionality. Here, well-defined lateral…
Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) enable the direct manipulation of mid-infrared light at nanometer scales, many orders of magnitude below the free-space light wavelength. High resolution monochromated…
Boron nitride (BN) is a material with outstanding technological promise because of its exceptional thermochemical stability, structural, electronic and thermal conductivity properties, and extreme hardness. Yet, the relative thermodynamic…