5 papers
Probing Boron Vacancy Defects in hBN via Single Spin Relaxometry
Alex L. Melendez, Ruotian Gong, Guanghui He +14
Spin defects in solids offer promising platforms for quantum sensing and memory due to their long coherence times and optical addressability. Here, we integrate a single nitrogen-v…
Atomically Precise Electron Beam Sculpting of Bilayer h-BN: The Role of Crystallographic Orientation and Milling Strategy
Ondrej Dyck, Andrew R. Lupini, Ivan Vlassiouk +3
Achieving atomic precision in top-down manufacturing remains a fundamental challenge nanofabrication technology. Here, the focused electron beam of a scanning transmission electron…
Human-AI collaborative autonomous synthesis with pulsed laser deposition for remote epitaxy
Asraful Haque, Daniel T. Yimam, Jawad Chowdhury +10
Autonomous laboratories typically rely on data-driven decision-making, occasionally with human-in-the-loop oversight to inject domain expertise. Fully leveraging AI agents, however…
Probing the Nanoscale Excitonic Landscape and Quantum Confinement of Excitons in Gated Monolayer Semiconductors
Yueh-Chun Wu, Bogdan Dryzhakov, Huan Zhao +6
Engineering and probing excitonic properties at the nanoscale remains a central challenge in quantum photonics and optoelectronics. While exciton confinement via electrical control…
Defect Engineering in Large-Scale CVD-Grown Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Formation, Spectroscopy, and Spin Relaxation Dynamics
Ivan V. Vlassiouk, Yueh-Chun Wu, Alexander Puretzky +19
Recently, numerous techniques have been reported for generating optically active defects in exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), which hold transformative potential for quantu…