Quantum Emission from Defects in Single-Crystalline Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Tran, Toan Trong ^a   Zachreson, Cameron ^a   Berhane, Amanuel Michael ^a   Bray, Kerem ^a   Sandstrom, Russell Guy ^a   Li, Lu Hua ^b   Taniguchi, Takashi ^c   Watanabe, Kenji ^c   Aharonovich, Igor ^a   Toth, Milos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; DEFECTS; ENERGY GAP; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOPHOTONICS; NITRIDES;

EMISSION PROPERTIES; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); QUANTUM EMITTERS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SPECTRAL RANGE; SUBBANDS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84963894727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.5.034005     Document Type: Article

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