Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

JD Caldwell, I Aharonovich, G Cassabois… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
For more than seven decades, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been employed as an
inert, thermally stable engineering ceramic; since 2010, it has also been used as the optimal …

Two dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (2D-hBN): synthesis, properties and applications

K Zhang, Y Feng, F Wang, Z Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Two dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (2D-hBN), an isomorph of graphene with a very
similar layered structure, is uniquely featured by its exotic opto-electrical properties together …

The GW Compendium: A Practical Guide to Theoretical Photoemission Spectroscopy

D Golze, M Dvorak, P Rinke - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The GW approximation in electronic structure theory has become a widespread tool for
predicting electronic excitations in chemical compounds and materials. In the realm of …

Engineering van der Waals materials for advanced metaphotonics

H Lin, Z Zhang, H Zhang, KT Lin, X Wen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The outstanding chemical and physical properties of 2D materials, together with their
atomically thin nature, make them ideal candidates for metaphotonic device integration and …

Hexagonal boron nitride is an indirect bandgap semiconductor

G Cassabois, P Valvin, B Gil - Nature photonics, 2016 - nature.com
Hexagonal boron nitride is a wide bandgap semiconductor with very high thermal and
chemical stability that is used in devices operating under extreme conditions. The growth of …

Metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

L Dai, Y Xue, L Qu, HJ Choi, JB Baek - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The rising global energy demand and environmental impact of traditional energy resources
pose serious challenges to human health, energy security, and environmental protection.(1 …

Electrical properties and applications of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), and graphene/h-BN heterostructures

J Wang, F Ma, W Liang, M Sun - Materials Today Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) graphene has unique electrical properties such as high
mobility and ballistic transport at room temperature. Two-dimensional hexagonal boron …

Graphene spintronics

W Han, RK Kawakami, M Gmitra, J Fabian - Nature nanotechnology, 2014 - nature.com
The isolation of graphene has triggered an avalanche of studies into the spin-dependent
physical properties of this material and of graphene-based spintronic devices. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Hexagonal boron nitride monolayers on metal supports: Versatile templates for atoms, molecules and nanostructures

W Auwärter - Surface Science Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) monolayers have attracted considerable interest as
atomically thin sp 2-hybridized sheets that are readily synthesized on various metal …

2D library beyond graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides: a focus on photodetection

F Wang, Z Wang, L Yin, R Cheng, J Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional layered materials (2DLMs) have attracted a tremendous amount of
attention as photodetectors due to their fascinating features, including high potentials in new …