This report summarizes progress made in understanding properties such as zero-phonon-
line energies, emission and absorption polarizations, electron–phonon couplings, strain …

Layered materials are very attractive for studies of light–matter interactions at the nanoscale.
In particular, isolated quantum systems such as color centers and quantum dots embedded …

Defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibit high-brightness, room-temperature
quantum emission, but their large spectral variability and unknown local structure challenge …

Single-photon emitters serve as building blocks for many emerging concepts in quantum
photonics. The recent identification of bright, tunable and stable emitters in hexagonal boron …

Most hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) single-photon emitters (SPEs) studied to date suffer
from variable emission energy and unpredictable polarization, two crucial obstacles to their …

Quantum technology grown out of quantum information theory, including quantum
communication, quantum computation and quantum sensing, not only provides powerful …

ABSTRACT Two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is one of the most
promising materials for many technological applications ranging from optics to electronics. In …

Single-photon emitters (SPEs) in two-dimensional materials are promising candidates for
the future generation of quantum photonic technologies. In this work, we experimentally …

Single-photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising constituents for
integrated quantum photonics. Specifically, engineering these emitters in large-area, high …

Single-photon emitters (SPEs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising components
for on-chip quantum information processing. Recently, large-area hBN films prepared by …