Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

JD Caldwell, I Aharonovich, G Cassabois… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
For more than seven decades, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been employed as an
inert, thermally stable engineering ceramic; since 2010, it has also been used as the optimal …

Engineering van der Waals materials for advanced metaphotonics

H Lin, Z Zhang, H Zhang, KT Lin, X Wen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The outstanding chemical and physical properties of 2D materials, together with their
atomically thin nature, make them ideal candidates for metaphotonic device integration and …

Many-body perturbation theory calculations using the yambo code

D Sangalli, A Ferretti, H Miranda… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract yambo is an open source project aimed at studying excited state properties of
condensed matter systems from first principles using many-body methods. As input, yambo …

[HTML][HTML] Direct band-gap crossover in epitaxial monolayer boron nitride

C Elias, P Valvin, T Pelini, A Summerfield… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Hexagonal boron nitride is a large band-gap insulating material which complements the
electronic and optical properties of graphene and the transition metal dichalcogenides …

Polarons in two-dimensional atomic crystals

WH Sio, F Giustino - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Polarons are quasiparticles that emerge from the interaction of fermionic particles with
bosonic fields. In crystalline solids, polarons form when electrons and holes become …

Monolayer to bulk properties of hexagonal boron nitride

D Wickramaratne, L Weston… - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is widely used in two-dimensional electronics and serves as
a host for single-photon emitters. We study the electronic structure of h-BN as a function of …

III-nitride nanostructures: Emerging applications for Micro-LEDs, ultraviolet photonics, quantum optoelectronics, and artificial photosynthesis

Y Wu, X Liu, A Pandey, P Zhou, WJ Dong… - Progress in Quantum …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this review article, we discuss the molecular beam epitaxy and basic structural, electronic,
optical, excitonic, chemical and catalytic properties of III-nitride nanostructures, including …

Multiflat bands and strong correlations in twisted bilayer boron nitride: Doping-induced correlated insulator and superconductor

L Xian, DM Kennes, N Tancogne-Dejean, M Altarelli… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional materials, obtained by van der Waals stacking of layers, are fascinating
objects of contemporary condensed matter research, exhibiting a variety of new physics …

Advanced nano boron nitride architectures: Synthesis, properties and emerging applications

RY Tay, H Li, H Wang, J Lin, ZK Ng, R Shivakumar… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is an extraordinarily tough material that is chemically and
thermally resistant to extreme environments, uniquely electrically insulating yet possessing …

Band gap measurements of monolayer h-BN and insights into carbon-related point defects

RJP Román, FJRC Costa, A Zobelli, C Elias… - 2D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Being a flexible wide band gap semiconductor, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has great
potential for technological applications like efficient deep ultraviolet light sources, building …