Layered materials as a platform for quantum technologies

ARP Montblanch, M Barbone, I Aharonovich… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Layered materials are taking centre stage in the ever-increasing research effort to develop
material platforms for quantum technologies. We are at the dawn of the era of layered …

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 …

Spin defects in hBN as promising temperature, pressure and magnetic field quantum sensors

A Gottscholl, M Diez, V Soltamov, C Kasper… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Room-temperature optically detected magnetic resonance of single defects in hexagonal boron nitride

HL Stern, Q Gu, J Jarman, S Eizagirre Barker… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optically addressable solid-state spins are important platforms for quantum technologies,
such as repeaters and sensors. Spins in two-dimensional materials offer an advantage, as …

Quantum sensing and imaging with spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

S Vaidya, X Gao, S Dikshit, I Aharonovich… - Advances in Physics …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

High-contrast plasmonic-enhanced shallow spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride for quantum sensing

X Gao, B Jiang, AE Llacsahuanga Allcca, K Shen… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The recently discovered spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a layered van der
Waals material, have great potential in quantum sensing. However, the photoluminescence …

Position-controlled quantum emitters with reproducible emission wavelength in hexagonal boron nitride

C Fournier, A Plaud, S Roux, A Pierret… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single photon emitters (SPEs) in low-dimensional layered materials have recently gained a
large interest owing to the auspicious perspectives of integration and extreme …

Strain-tuning of the electronic, optical, and vibrational properties of two-dimensional crystals

E Blundo, E Cappelluti, M Felici, G Pettinari… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The variegated family of two-dimensional (2D) crystals has developed rapidly since the
isolation of its forerunner: Graphene. Their planeconfined nature is typically associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

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 …