Strain engineering is a promising way to tune the electrical, electrochemical, magnetic, and
optical properties of 2D materials, with the potential to achieve high‐performance 2D …

Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently emerged as promising
candidates for a new wave of quantum applications. Thanks to hBN's high stability and two …

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 …

Quantum emitters have become a vital tool for both fundamental science and emerging
technologies. In recent years, the focus in the field has shifted to exploration and …

Solid-state single-photon sources are central building blocks in quantum information
processing. Atomically thin crystals have emerged as sources of nonclassical light; however …

Quantum information science and engineering (QISE)—which entails the use of quantum
mechanical states for information processing, communications, and sensing—and the area …

Optically active defects in 2D materials, such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and
transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), are an attractive class of single-photon emitters …

The integration of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials with nanostructures has
triggered a wide spectrum of optical and optoelectronic applications. Photonic structures of …

Single photons, often called flying qubits, have enormous promise to realize scalable
quantum technologies ranging from an unhackable communication network to quantum …

Quantum sensing has emerged as a powerful technique to detect and measure physical and
chemical parameters with exceptional precision. One of the methods is to use optically …