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most citedQuantum Optics Applications of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Defects

39 citations · 101 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Twist-Controlled Modulation of Quantum Emitters in a Van der Waals Bilayer

Angus Gale, Seungjun Lee, Seungmin Park +7

Stacking and twisting two dimensional materials has garnered enormous attention across the condensed matter and the nanophotonic communities. The surge of interest stems from the e…

physics.optics2026

Coupling nitrogen vacancy centers in silicon carbide to nanophotonic resonators

Ivan Zhigulin, Konosuke Shimazaki, Samuel M. Stephens +5

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising platform for scalable quantum technologies owing to its well-established, wafer-scale industrial processing. SiC also hosts a variety of optica…

physics.optics2026

Engineering and Tuning of high quality hexagonal boron nitride nanophotonic resonators

Otto Cranwell Schaeper, Angus Gale, Nathan Coste +4

Van der Waals materials are offering intriguing opportunities as building blocks for advanced quantum information technologies and integrated quantum photonic systems. Critical to…

physics.optics2025

Visible Integrated Photonics with Tantalum Pentoxide

Sergei Nedić, Angus Gale, Hugo Quard +3

Developing chip-scale photonic platforms for the visible spectrum is essential for translating next-generation optical technologies. Here, we demonstrate that tantalum pentoxide Ta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Quantum Emitters in Flux Grown hBN

Evan Williams, Angus Gale, Jake Horder +3

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an emerging material for use in quantum technologies, hosting bright and stable single photon emitters (SPEs). The B-center is one promising SPE in…

physics.optics2025

Quantum Emitters in Rhombohedral Boron Nitride

Angus Gale, Mehran Kianinia, Jake Horder +8

Rhombohedral boron nitride (rBN) is an emerging wide-bandgap van der Waals (vdW) material that combines strong second-order nonlinear optical properties with the structural flexibi…

quant-ph2024★ 39 cited

Quantum Optics Applications of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Defects

Aslı Çakan, Chanaprom Cholsuk, Angus Gale +6

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a compelling platform for both classical and quantum technologies. In particular, the past decade has witnessed a surge of novel ideas…

quant-ph2024

Decoherence of Quantum Emitters in hexagonal Boron Nitride

Jake Horder, Dominic Scognamiglio, Nathan Coste +6

Coherent quantum emitters are a central resource for advanced quantum technologies. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) hosts a range of quantum emitters that can be engineered using tec…

physics.app-ph2024

Electron Beam Restructuring of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Sergei Nedić, Karin Yamamura, Angus Gale +2

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) holds promise as a solid state, van der Waals host of single photon emitters for on-chip quantum photonics. The B-centre defect emitting at 436 nm is…

physics.optics2023

On-Demand Quantum Light Sources for Underwater Communications

Dominic Scognamiglio, Angus Gale, Ali Al-Juboori +2

Quantum communication has been at the forefront of modern research for decades, however it is severely hampered in underwater applications, where the properties of water absorb nea…

physics.optics2023★ 36 cited

Optically addressable spin defects coupled to bound states in the continuum metasurfaces

Luca Sortino, Angus Gale, Lucca Kühner +9

Van der Waals (vdW) materials, including hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), are layered crystalline solids with appealing properties for investigating light-matter interactions at the…

physics.optics2023★ 13 cited

Manipulating the Charge State of Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Angus Gale, Dominic Scognamiglio, Ivan Zhigulin +4

Negatively charged boron vacancies () in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently gained interest as spin defects for quantum information processing and quantum s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 2 cited

Framework for engineering of spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride by focused ion beams

Madeline Hennessey, Benjamin Whitefield, Angus Gale +4

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is gaining interest as a wide bandgap van der Waals host of optically active spin defects for quantum technologies. Most studies of the spin-photon in…

physics.app-ph2023★ 7 cited

Coupling spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride to a microwave cavity

Thinh N. Tran, Angus Gale, Benjamin Whitefield +3

Optically addressable spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have become a promising platform for quantum sensing. While sensitivity of these defects are limited by their in…

physics.optics2023

Photophysics of blue quantum emitters in hexagonal Boron Nitride

Ivan Zhigulin, Karin Yamamura, Viktor Ivády +6

Colour centres in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as intriguing contenders for integrated quantum photonics. In this work, we present detailed photophysical analysis of…

physics.app-ph2022★ 4 cited

Stark effect of quantum blue emitters in hBN

Ivan Zhigulin, Jake Horder, Victor Ivady +7

Inhomogeneous broadening is a major limitation for the application of quantum emitters in hBN to integrated quantum photonics. Here we demonstrate that blue emitters with an emissi…

quant-ph2022

Coherence properties of electron beam activated emitters in hexagonal boron nitride under resonant excitation

Jake Horder, Simon White, Angus Gale +6

Two dimensional materials are becoming increasingly popular as a platform for studies of quantum phenomena and for the production of prototype quantum technologies. Quantum emitter…

physics.optics2021

Deterministic fabrication of blue quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride

Angus Gale, Chi Li, Yongliang Chen +4

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, atomic…

physics.app-ph2021

Recoil Implantation Using Gas-Phase Precursor Molecules

Angus Gale, Johannes E. Fröch, Mehran Kianinia +3

Ion implantation underpins a vast range of devices and technologies that require precise control over the physical, chemical, electronic, magnetic and optical properties of materia…