Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: Defects in wide band gap crystals have emerged as a promising platform for hosting colour centres that enable quantum photonic applications. Among these, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a van der Waals material, stands out for its ability to be integrated into heterostructures, enabling unconventional charge injection mechanisms that bypass the need for p-n junctions. This advancement allows for the electrical excitation of hBN colour centres deep inside the large hBN bandgap, which has seen rapid progress in recent developments. Here, we fabricate hBN electroluminescence (EL) devices that generate narrowband colour centres suitable for electrical excitation. The colour centres are localised to tunnelling current hotspots within the hBN flake, which are designed during device fabrication. We outline the optimal conditions for device operation and colour centre stability, focusing on minimising background emission and ensuring prolonged operation. Our findings follow up on the existing literature and mark a step forward towards the integration of hBN based colour centres into quantum photonic technologies.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Zhigulin, Ivan, Park, Gyuna, Yamamura, Karin, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Toth, Milos, Kim, Jonghwan, Aharonovich, Igor
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: Australian National Fabrication Facility, National Research Foundation, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, National Research Foundation of Korea, Iran Telecommunication Research Center, Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea, Australian Research Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion
Awards: Quantum Nanophotonics with Atomically Thin Materials , G1418483613, G1890223652, G2442584775, G2729781829, G3136449320, G3440173346, G3953512425, G4162329948, G4700831490, Indistinguishable Quantum Emitters in van der Waals Materials, G4806815962, G7747547686, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, G8814560575, G898758523
OpenAlex ID: W6948106921
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