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Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a critical material for 2D electronic devices for graphene and has attracted a considerable amount of attention owing to its structural similarity and semiconducting property. However, modifying its…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Jerome A. Cuenca , Soumen Mandal , Malcolm Snowball , Adrian Porch , Oliver A. Williams

Optically addressable spins in widebandgap semiconductors have become one of the most prominent platforms for exploring fundamental quantum phenomena. While several candidates in 3D crystals including diamond and silicon carbide have been…

The peculiar defect-related photon emission processes in 2D hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have become a topic of intense research due to their potential applications in quantum information and sensing technologies. Recent efforts have…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-16 Xiang Chen , Xinxin Yue , Lifu Zhang , Xiaodan Xu , Fang Liu , Min Feng , Zhenpeng Hu , Yuan Yan , Jacob Scheuer , Xuewen Fu

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…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an emerging material for use in quantum technologies, hosting bright and stable single photon emitters (SPEs). The B-center is one promising SPE in hBN, due to the near-deterministic creation methods and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-24 Evan Williams , Angus Gale , Jake Horder , Dominic Scognamiglio , 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

Quantum light sources are crucial foundational components for various quantum technology applications. With the rapid development of quantum technology, there has been a growing demand for materials with the capability of hosting quantum…

Synthesis and research of the properties of boron nitride powders and BN powders with additives produced under effect of concentrated light in a flow of nitrogen in a xenon high-flux optical furnace are presented. A scanning and…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an emerging layered material that plays a key role in a variety of two-dimensional devices, and has potential applications in nanophotonics and nanomechanics. Here, we demonstrate the first cavity…

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…

Negatively charged boron vacancies ($\small{V_B^-}$) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently gained interest as spin defects for quantum information processing and quantum sensing by a layered material. However, the boron vacancy can…

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…

Being a flexible wide band gap semiconductor, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has great potential for technological applications like efficient deep ultraviolet light sources, building block for two-dimensional heterostructures and room…

Amorphous boron nitride (\textrm{$\alpha$}-BN) is a promising ultrathin barrier for nanoelectronics, yet the atomistic mechanisms governing its chemical stability remain poorly understood. Here, we investigate the structure-property…

Spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising quantum systems for the design of flexible two-dimensional quantum sensing platforms. Here we rely on hBN crystals isotopically enriched with either $^{10}$B or $^{11}$B to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-03 A. Haykal , R. Tanos , N. Minotto , A. Durand , F. Fabre , J. Li , J. H. Edgar , V. Ivady , A. Gali , T. Michel , A. Dréau , B. Gil , G. Cassabois , V. Jacques

Understanding the properties of novel solid-state quantum emitters is pivotal for a variety of applications in field ranging from quantum optics to biology. Recently discovered defects in hexagonal boron nitride are especially interesting,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Andreas W. Schell , Mikael Svedendahl , Romain Quidant

Magnetic measurements under high-pressure conditions are pivotal for the study of superconductivity and magnetic materials but remain challenging due to the micrometer-sized sample in diamond anvil cells (DAC). In this study, we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Lun-Xuan Yu , Nai-Jie Guo , Lin Liu , Wei Liu , Gui-Zhen Yan , Jin-Ming Cui , Jian-Shun Tang , Chuan-Feng Li , Xiao-Di Liu

Defect engineering enables hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) to act as a platform for stabilizing isolated metal atoms, yet systematic identification of catalytically viable motifs remains limited. Here, density functional theory is used to…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-02 Ana S. Dobrota , Natalia V. Skorodumova , Igor A. Pašti

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…

Color centers in wide bandgap semiconductors are attracting broad attention as platforms for quantum technologies relying on room-temperature single-photon emission (SPE), and for nanoscale metrology applications building on the centers'…