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Defects in wide band gap crystals have emerged as a promising platform for hosting colour centres that enable quantum photonic applications. Among these, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a van der Waals material, stands out for its ability to…

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

Hexagonal boron nitride is an emerging two-dimensional material with far-reaching applications in fields like nanophotonics or nanomechanics. Its layered architecture plays a key role for new materials such as Van der Waals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Alexander Kubanek

In the wide world of 2D materials, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) holds a special place due to its excellent characteristics. In addition to its thermal, chemical and mechanical stability, hBN demonstrates high thermal conductivity, low…

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 hosted in hexagonal boron nitride have emerged as a highly promising platform for single-photon emission and spin-photon technologies relevant to quantum communication and quantum networking. As a wide-bandgap van der Waals…

Hexagonal boron nitride is rapidly gaining interest as a platform for photonic quantum technologies, due to its two-dimensional nature and its ability to host defects deep within its large band gap that may act as room-temperature…

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), one of the hallmark van der Waals (vdW) layered crystals with an ensemble of attractive physical properties, is playing increasingly important roles in exploring two-dimensional (2D) electronics, photonics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-07 Yanan Wang , Jaesung Lee , Xu-Qian Zheng , Yong Xie , Philip X. -L. Feng

Color centers in solid state crystals have become a frequently used system for single photon generation, advancing the development of integrated photonic devices for quantum optics and quantum communication applications. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Tobias Vogl , Geoff Campbell , Ben C. Buchler , Yuerui Lu , Ping Koy Lam

Boron vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are among the most extensively studied optically active spin defects in van der Waals crystals, due to their promising potential to develop two-dimensional (2D) quantum sensors. In this…

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPPs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) confine mid-infrared light to deep-subwavelength scales and may offer a powerful route to strong light-matter interactions. Generation and control of HPPs are typically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jie-Cheng Feng , Johannes Eberle , Sambuddha Chattopadhyay , Johannes Knörzer , Eugene Demler , Ataç İmamoğlu

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

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a key ingredient for various two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructure devices, but the exact role of h-BN encapsulation in relation to the internal defects of 2D semiconductors remains unclear.…

Development of scalable quantum photonic technologies requires on-chip integration of components such as photonic crystal cavities and waveguides with nonclassical light sources. Recently, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a…

Van der Waals heterostructures are at the forefront in materials heterostructure engineering, offering the ultimate control in layer selectivity and capability to combine virtually any material. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), the most…

Two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a wide-bandgap van der Waals crystal with a unique combination of properties, including exceptional strength, large oxidation resistance at high temperatures and optical functionalities.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 P. Ares , T. Cea , M. Holwill , Y. B. Wang , R. Roldan , F. Guinea , D. V. Andreeva , L. Fumagalli , K. S. Novoselov , C. R. Woods

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a 2D, wide band-gap semiconductor that has recently been shown to display bright room-temperature emission in the visible region, sparking immense interest in the material for use in quantum applications.…

Defects in wide bandgap semiconductors have recently emerged as promising candidates for solid-state quantum optical technologies. Electrical excitation of emitters may pave the way to scalable on-chip devices, and therefore is highly…

Colour centres in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as intriguing contenders for integrated quantum photonics. In this work, we present detailed photophysical analysis of hBN single emitters emitting at the blue spectral range. The…

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…

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