Extracting light from silicon is a longstanding challenge in modern engineering and physics.
While silicon has underpinned the past 70 years of electronics advancement, a facile …

With solar cells reaching 26.1% certified efficiency, hybrid perovskites are now the most
efficient thin film photovoltaic material. Though substantial effort has focussed on synthesis …

Light emitters in wide-band-gap semiconductors are of great fundamental interest and have
potential as optically addressable qubits. Here we describe a unique color center in high …

Impurity-vacancy centers in diamond offer a new class of robust photon sources with
versatile quantum properties. While individual color centers commonly act as single-photon …

Solid-state single-photon emitters (SPEs) are attracting significant attention as fundamental
components in quantum computing, communication, and sensing. Low-dimensional …

Spin defects like the negatively charged boron vacancy color center (VB–) in hexagonal
boron nitride (hBN) may enable new forms of quantum sensing with near-surface defects in …

Plasmonic nanopatch antennas that incorporate dielectric gaps hundreds of picometers to
several nanometers thick have drawn increasing attention over the past decade because …

Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride have shown enormous promise as single-photon
sources, but a clear understanding of the electron-phonon interaction dynamics is critical to …

Nanoscale strain control of exciton funneling is an increasingly critical tool for the scalable
production of single photon emitters (SPEs) in two-dimensional materials. However …

The impulsive excitation of ensembles of excitons or color centers by a high-energy electron
beam results in the observation of photon bunching in the second-order correlation function …