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Materials with high thermal conductivities (k) is valuable to solve the challenge of waste heat dissipation in highly integrated and miniaturized modern devices. Herein, we report the first synthesis of atomically thin isotopically pure…

The adsorption of single atoms on pristine and defected hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) was systematically investigated using density functional theory. Elements from the first three rows of the periodic table, together with selected…

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This study comprehensively examined the structural, electronic, electrochemical, and energy storage properties of boron-vacancy induced porous boron nitride monolayers (BN:VB) as multifunctional materials, anodes for MIBs and H2 storage…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-06 Wadha Alfalasi , Wael Othman , Tanveer Hussain , Nacir Tit

The thickness and interfacial geometry of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) films grown by chemical vapor deposition on polycrystalline nickel foils is studied using low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM). The reflectivity of the electrons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 P. C. Mende , Q. Gao , A. Ismach , H. Chou , M. Widom , R. Ruoff , L. Colombo , R. M. Feenstra

The emerging ferroelectric properties of two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures are at the forefront of science and prospective technology. In moir\'e bilayers, twisting or heterostructuring causes local atomic reconstruction, which even at…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Wilson Nieto Luna , Robin Smeyers , Cem Sevik , Lucian Covaci , Milorad V. Milošević

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is drawing increasing attention as an insulator and substrate material to develop next generation graphene-based electronic devices. In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport in heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , X. Xu , S. R. Patil , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a layered two-dimensional material with properties that make it promising as a dielectric in various applications. We report the growth of h-BN films on Ni foils from elemental B and N using molecular beam…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-29 S. Nakhaie , J. M. Wofford , T. Schumann , U. Jahn , M. Ramsteiner , M. Hanke , J. M. J. Lopes , H. Riechert

Stacking mismatches in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanostructures affect their photonic, mechanical, and thermal properties. To access information about the stacked configuration of layered ensembles, highly sophisticated techniques like…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-03 Luigi Cigarini , Michal Novotný , František Karlický

Defect color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have gained significant interest as single-photon emitters and spin qubits for applications in a wide range of quantum technologies. As the integration of these solid-state quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-23 Madhava Krishna Prasad , Jonathan Paul Goss , Jonathan David Mar

The controlled creation and manipulation of defects in 2D materials has become increasingly popular as a means to design and tune new material functionalities. However, defect characterization by direct atomic imaging is often severely…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-06 Dana O. Byrne , Jim Ciston , Frances I. Allen

Creation of defect with predetermined optical, chemical and other characteristics is a powerful tool to enhance the functionalities of materials. Herewith, we utilize density functional theory to understand the microscopic mechanisms of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-31 P. Huang , M. Grzeszczyk , K. Vaklinova , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , K. S. Novoselov , M. Koperski

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is attracting a lot of attention in the last years, thanks to its many remarkable properties. These include the presence of single-photon emitters with superior optical properties, which make it an ideal…

Improving the film quality in the synthesis of large-area hexagonal boron nitride films (h-BN) for two-dimensional material devices remains a great challenge. The measurement of electrical breakdown dielectric strength (EBD) is one of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-04 Yoshiaki Hattori , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kosuke Nagashio

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been experimentally shown to exhibit room-temperature single-photon emission. This emission is attributed to defect states in the wide band-gap of hBN, which allow new optical transitions between these…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-15 Reyhan Mehta , Anshuman Kumar

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Xinxia Li , Yaping Yan , Lan Dong , Jie Guo , Adili Aiyiti , Xiangfan Xu , Baowen Li

We reported the basal-plane thermal conductivity in exfoliated bilayer hexagonal boron nitride h-BN that was measured using suspended prepatterned microstructures. The h-BN sample suitable for thermal measurements was fabricated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Chengru Wang , Jie Guo , Lan Dong , Adili Aiyiti , Xiangfan Xu , Baowen Li

Atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), especially monolayer, has garnered increasing attention due to its intriguing optical and light-matter-interaction properties. However, its intrinsic optical properties and electronic band…

Evaluation of the defect levels in low-dimensional materials is an important aspect of quantum science. In this article, we report a facile synthesis method of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and evaluate the defects and their light emission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Ashly Sunny , Aniket Balapure , Ramakrishnan Ganesan , R. Thamankar

We demonstrate the fabrication of individual nanopores in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) with atomically precise control of the pore size. Previous methods of pore production in other 2D materials create pores of irregular geometry with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-07 S. Matt Gilbert , Gabriel Dunn , Thang Pham , Brian Shevitski , Edgar Dimitrov , Shaul Aloni , Alex Zettl

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is an important insulating substrate for two-dimensional (2D) heterostructure devices and possesses high dielectric strength comparable to SiO2. Here, we report two clear differences in their physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-19 Yoshiaki Hattori , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kosuke Nagashio