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Quantum emission from hexagonal boron nitride monolayers
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Artificial atomic systems in solids are widely considered the leading physical system for a variety of quantum technologies, including quantum communications, computing and metrology. To date, however, room-temperature quantum emitters have only been observed in wide-bandgap semiconductors such as diamond and silicon carbide, nanocrystal quantum dots, and most recently in carbon nanotubes. Single-photon emission from two-dimensional materials has been reported, but only at cryogenic temperatures. Here, we demonstrate room-temperature, polarized and ultrabright single-photon emission from a colour centre in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride. Density functional theory calculations indicate that vacancy-related defects are a probable source of the emission. Our results demonstrate the unprecedented potential of van der Waals crystals for large-scale nanophotonics and quantum information processing.
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- Tran, T. T., Bray, K., Ford, M. J., Toth, M., & Aharonovich, I.
- Venue
- Nature Nanotechnology
- Published
- 2015-10-26
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 37-41
- ISSN
- 1748-3387 (ISSN-L)
- 1748-3395
- OpenAlex
- W1506223212
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- 1,504
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 30.78
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- en
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- green
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