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most citedRoom Temperature Initialisation and Readout of Intrinsic Spin Defects in a Van der Waals Crystal

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Multi-wavelength Spin Dynamics of Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Ivan Zhigulin, Nicholas P. Sloane, Benjamin Whitefield +3

Optically addressable solid-state spin defects are essential platforms for quantum sensing and information processing. Recently, single spin defects with combined S = 1 and S = 1/2…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Photodynamics and Temperature Dependence of Single Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Benjamin Whitefield, Ivan Zhigulin, Nicholas P. Sloane +3

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) that exhibit optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) signatures have recently garnered significant attention as an emerging 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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 300 cited

Sub-nanoscale Temperature, Magnetic Field and Pressure sensing with Spin Centers in 2D hexagonal Boron Nitride

Andreas Gottscholl, Matthias Diez, Victor Soltamov +6

Spin defects in solid-state materials are strong candidate systems for quantum information technology and sensing applications. Here we explore in details the recently discovered n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 113 cited

Photoluminescence and photochemistry of the defect in hexagonal boron nitride

Jeffrey R. Reimers, Jun Shen, Mehran Kianinia +4

Extensive photochemical and spectroscopic properties of the defect in hexagonal boron nitride are calculated, concluding that the observed photoemission associated with rec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 76 cited

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance signature of point defects in neutron irradiated hexagonal Boron Nitride

J. R. Toledo, D. B. de Jesus, M. Kianinia +6

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is an attractive van der Waals material for studying fluorescent defects due to its large bandgap. In this work, we demonstrate enhanced pink color d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 2 cited

Effects of high energy electron irradiation on quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride

Hanh Ngoc My Duong, Minh Anh Phan Nguyen, Mehran Kianinia +7

Hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) mono and multilayers are promising hosts for room temperature single photon emitters (SPEs). In this work we explore high energy (~ MeV) electron irra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Single Photon Emission from Plasma Treated 2D Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Zai-Quan Xu, Christopher Elbadawi, Toan Trong Tran +13

Artificial atomic systems in solids are becoming increasingly important building blocks in quantum information processing and scalable quantum nanophotonic networks. Yet, synthesis…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Resonant Excitation of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Toan Trong Tran, Mehran Kianinia, Minh Nguyen +5

Quantum emitters in layered hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently attracted a great attention as promising single photon sources. In this work, we demonstrate resonant excita…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 1 cited

First principles investigation of quantum emission from hBN defects

Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik, Sajid Ali, Marco Fronzi +6

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently emerged as a fascinating platform for room-temperature quantum photonics due to the discovery of robust visible light single-photon emitt…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 1 cited

Atomic Engineering of Single Photon Sources in 2D Boron Nitride Zai-Quan

Zai-Quan Xu, Christopher Elbadawi, Toan Trong Tran +5

Artificial atomic systems in solids such as single photon emitters are becoming increasingly important building blocks in quantum information processing and scalable quantum nanoph…