[HTML][HTML] ZnO tetrapod materials for functional applications

YK Mishra, R Adelung - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last 15 years, more than 50,000 papers with zinc oxide (ZnO) in the title are listed
within ISI database. The outstanding popularity of ZnO has many reasons; the most …

Solid-state single-photon emitters

I Aharonovich, D Englund, M Toth - Nature photonics, 2016 - nature.com
Single-photon emitters play an important role in many leading quantum technologies. There
is still no'ideal'on-demand single-photon emitter, but a plethora of promising material …

Control of spin defects in wide-bandgap semiconductors for quantum technologies

FJ Heremans, CG Yale… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep-level defects are usually considered undesirable in semiconductors as they typically
interfere with the performance of present-day electronic and optoelectronic devices …

Temperature dependence of wavelength selectable zero-phonon emission from single defects in hexagonal boron nitride

NR Jungwirth, B Calderon, Y Ji, MG Spencer… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We investigate the distribution and temperature-dependent optical properties of sharp, zero-
phonon emission from defect-based single photon sources in multilayer hexagonal boron …

Optical absorption and emission mechanisms of single defects in hexagonal boron nitride

NR Jungwirth, GD Fuchs - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We investigate the polarization selection rules of sharp zero-phonon lines (ZPLs) from
isolated defects in hexagonal boron nitride (HBN) and compare our findings with the …

[HTML][HTML] First-principles characterization of native-defect-related optical transitions in ZnO

JL Lyons, JB Varley, D Steiauf, A Janotti… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the electrical and optical properties of oxygen vacancies (VO), zinc
vacancies (V Zn), hydrogenated V Zn, and isolated dangling bonds in ZnO using hybrid …

Optical manipulation of the Berry phase in a solid-state spin qubit

CG Yale, FJ Heremans, BB Zhou, A Auer, G Burkard… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Phase relations between quantum states represent a resource for storing and processing
quantum information. Although quantum phases are commonly controlled dynamically by …

Rabi oscillations and resonance fluorescence from a single hexagonal boron nitride quantum emitter

K Konthasinghe, C Chakraborty, N Mathur, L Qiu… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a wide-bandgap 2D material, is rapidly emerging as a
promising candidate for quantum optics experiments. In this work, we demonstrate, to the …

Anomalous pressure characteristics of defects in hexagonal boron nitride flakes

Y Xue, H Wang, Q Tan, J Zhang, T Yu, K Ding… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Research on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been intensified recently due to the
application of hBN as a promising system of single-photon emitters. To date, the single …

Efficient Electrical Spin Readout of Centers in Diamond

FM Hrubesch, G Braunbeck, M Stutzmann, F Reinhard… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Using pulsed photoionization the coherent spin manipulation and echo formation of
ensembles of NV-centers in diamond are detected electrically, realizing contrasts of up to …