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Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as an excellent host material for generating room temperature single photons exhibiting high brightness and spin-photon entanglement. However, challenges in improving purity, stability, and…

Single-photon detectors (SPDs) play important roles in highly sensitive detection applications, such as fluorescence spectroscopy, remote sensing and ranging, deep space optical communications, elementary particle detection, and quantum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-08 Meng Yang , Feihu Xu , Ji-Gang Ren , Juan Yin , Yang Li , Yuan Cao , Qi Shen , Hai-Lin Yong , Liang Zhang , Sheng-Kai Liao , Jian-Wei Pan , Cheng-Zhi Peng

Single photons enable the distribution of quantum information over large distances and thus play a major role in quantum technologies such as communication and computing. Solid-state emitters are practical and efficient sources of single…

Nanophotonic quantum information processing systems require spatially ordered, spectrally uniform single photon sources (SPSs) integrated on-chip with co-designed light manipulating elements providing emission rate enhancement, emitted…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-09 Jiefei Zhang , Swarnabha Chattaraj , Siyuan Lu , Anupam Madhukar

The flourishing field of two-dimensional (2D) nanophotonics has generated much excitement in the quantum technologies community after the identification of quantum emitters (QEs) in layered materials (LMs). LMs offer many advantages as…

Single quantum emitters (SQEs) are at the heart of quantum optics and photonic quantum information technologies. To date, all demonstrated solid-state single-photon sources are confined in three-dimensional materials. Here, we report a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Yu-Ming He , G. Clark , J. R. Schaibley , Yu He , M. -C. Chen , Y. -J. Wei , X. Ding , Qiang Zhang , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Chao-Yang Lu , Jian-Wei Pan

Self-driven photodetectors (SDPDs) transform photon energy into electrical energy without external voltage, which makes them highly advantageous for applications such as low-power communication and imaging systems. Two-dimensional materials…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation integrated single-photon emitters (SPEs). However, significant variability in the emission energies of 2D SPEs presents a major challenge in producing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Yi Yu , Junyu Ge , Manlin Luo , In Cheol Seo , Youngmin Kim , John J. H. Eng , Kunze Lu , Tian-Ran Wei , Seok Woo Lee , Weibo Gao , Hong Li , Donguk Nam

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a promising ultrathin host of single photon emitters (SPEs) with favorable quantum properties at room temperature, making it a highly desirable element for integrated quantum photonic networks.…

Two dimensional (2D) materials, e.g. graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), black phosphorus (BP), have demonstrated fascinating electrical and optical characteristics and exhibited great potential in optoelectronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-20 Yuanfang Yu , Feng Miao , Jun He , Zhenhua Ni

Single-photon detectors and nanoscale superconducting devices are two major candidates for realizing quantum technologies. Superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) comprise these two solid-state and optic aspects enabling…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-24 Itamar Holzman , Yachin Ivry

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…

Room temperature single photon sources (SPS) are crucial for developing the next generation quantum technologies. Quantum dots (QDs), recently, have been reported as promising materials as SPS at room temperature. By optimizing the single…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Kush Kaushik , Jiban Mondal , Ritesh Kumar Bag , Shagun Sharma , Abdul Salam , Chayan Kanti Nandi

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), a prevalent insulating crystal for dielectric and encapsulation layers in two-dimensional (2D) nanoelectronics and a structural material in 2D nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), has also rapidly emerged as…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-08 Yanan Wang , Jaesung Lee , Jesse Berezovsky , Philip X. -L. Feng

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,…

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…

Single-photon emitters (SPEs) are central to quantum communication, computing, and metrology, yet their development remains constrained by trade-offs in purity, indistinguishability, and tunability. This review presents a mechanism-based…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-22 Galy Yang , Eric Ashallay , Zhiming Wang , Abolfazl Bayat , Arup Neogi

The search for an ideal single-photon source has generated significant interest in discovering novel emitters in materials as well as developing new manipulation techniques to gain better control over the emitters' properties. Quantum…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-06 Shaimaa I. Azzam , Kamyar Parto , Galan Moody

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are attractive nanomaterials for quantum information applications due to single photon emission (SPE) from atomic defects, primarily tungsten diselenide (WSe2) monolayers. Defect…

Entangled photon sources (EPSs) are essential building blocks for scalable quantum communication and quantum key distribution (QKD). We present a stable, highly nondegenerate EPS based on type-0 spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC)…