Graphene and beyond: recent advances in two-dimensional materials synthesis, properties, and devices

Y Lei, T Zhang, YC Lin, T Granzier-Nakajima… - ACS Nanoscience …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Since the isolation of graphene in 2004, two-dimensional (2D) materials research has
rapidly evolved into an entire subdiscipline in the physical sciences with a wide range of …

Excitons in two-dimensional materials and heterostructures: Optical and magneto-optical properties

M Glazov, A Arora, A Chaves, YG Gobato - MRS Bulletin, 2024‏ - Springer
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials are attractive systems to explore exciton physics
and possible applications in optoelectronics, opto-spintronics, and quantum technologies …

Sensing the local magnetic environment through optically active defects in a layered magnetic semiconductor

J Klein, Z Song, B **ault, F Dirnberger, H Chi… - ACS …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Atomic-level defects in van der Waals (vdW) materials are essential building blocks for
quantum technologies and quantum sensing applications. The layered magnetic …

Low-divergence hbn single-photon source with a 3D-printed low-fluorescence elliptical polymer microlens

JA Preuß, H Gehring, R Schmidt, L **, D Wendland… - Nano Letters, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Efficiently collecting light from single-photon emitters is crucial for photonic quantum
technologies. Here, we develop and use an ultralow fluorescence photopolymer to three …

Resonant and phonon-assisted ultrafast coherent control of a single hBN color center

JA Preuss, D Groll, R Schmidt, T Hahn… - Optica, 2022‏ - opg.optica.org
Single-photon emitters in solid-state systems are important building blocks for scalable
quantum technologies. Recently, quantum light emitters have been discovered in the wide …

Probing the Nature of Single-Photon Emitters in a WSe2 Monolayer by Magneto-Photoluminescence Spectroscopy

C Serati de Brito, BLT Rosa, A Chaves, C Cavalini… - Nano Letters, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as promising materials
to generate single-photon emitters (SPEs). While there are several previous reports in the …

Revealing localized excitons in WSe2/β-Ga2O3

C Cavalini, C Rabahi, CS de Brito, E Lee… - Applied Physics …, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
We have investigated the optical and magneto-optical properties of monolayer (ML) WSe 2
on flakes of β-Ga 2 O 3 under high magnetic fields. Remarkably, sharp emission peaks were …

Activated Single Photon Emitters And Enhanced Deep‐Level Emissions in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Strain Crystal

X Chen, X Yue, L Zhang, X Xu, F Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

On-demand generation of optically active defects in monolayer WS2 by a focused helium ion beam

A Micevic, N Pettinger, A Hötger, L Sigl… - Applied Physics …, 2022‏ - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate that optically active emitters can be locally generated by focusing a He-ion
beam onto monolayer WS 2 encapsulated in hBN. The emitters show a low-temperature …

Synthesis of Few-Layer Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Magnetic Tunnel Junction Application

S Emoto, H Kusunose, YC Lin, H Sun… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a wide-gap two-dimensional (2D) insulator, is an ideal
tunneling barrier for many applications because of the atomically flat surface, high crystalline …