Hexagonal boron nitride for next‐generation photonics and electronics

S Moon, J Kim, J Park, S Im, J Kim, I Hwang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN), an insulating 2D layered material, has recently attracted
tremendous interest motivated by the extraordinary properties it shows across the fields of …

Quantum emitters in 2D materials: Emitter engineering, photophysics, and integration in photonic nanostructures

M Kianinia, ZQ Xu, M Toth, I Aharonovich - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Site-specific fabrication of blue quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride

A Gale, C Li, Y Chen, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is gaining considerable attention as a solid-state host of
quantum emitters from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared spectral ranges. However, the …

Towards ab initio identification of paramagnetic substitutional carbon defects in hexagonal boron nitride acting as quantum bits

P Auburger, A Gali - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Paramagnetic substitutional carbon (CB, CN) defects in hexagonal boron nitride are
discussed as candidates for quantum bits. Their identification and suitability are approached …

Atomic and electronic structure of defects in hBN: enhancing single-defect functionalities

Z Qiu, K Vaklinova, P Huang, M Grzeszczyk… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Defect centers in insulators play a critical role in creating important functionalities in
materials: prototype qubits, single-photon sources, magnetic field probes, and pressure …

Multi-species optically addressable spin defects in a van der Waals material

SC Scholten, P Singh, AJ Healey, IO Robertson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optically addressable spin defects hosted in two-dimensional van der Waals materials
represent a new frontier for quantum technologies, promising to lead to a new class of …

Carbon-Related Quantum Emitter in Hexagonal Boron Nitride with Homogeneous Energy and 3-Fold Polarization

D Zhong, S Gao, M Saccone, JR Greer, M Bernardi… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
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 …

Symmetric carbon tetramers forming spin qubits in hexagonal boron nitride

Z Benedek, R Babar, Á Ganyecz, T Szilvási… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Point defect quantum bits in semiconductors have the potential to revolutionize sensing at
atomic scales. Currently, vacancy-related defects are at the forefront of high spatial …

Spin-active defects in hexagonal boron nitride

W Liu, NJ Guo, S Yu, Y Meng, ZP Li… - Materials for …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum technology grown out of quantum information theory, including quantum
communication, quantum computation and quantum sensing, not only provides powerful …

Coherent control of an ultrabright single spin in hexagonal boron nitride at room temperature

NJ Guo, S Li, W Liu, YZ Yang, XD Zeng, S Yu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a remarkable two-dimensional (2D) material that hosts
solid-state spins and has great potential to be used in quantum information applications …