Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are nanoscale semiconductor crystals with surface ligands
that enable their dispersion in solvents. Quantum confinement effects facilitate wave function …

Quantum technology has grown out of quantum information theory and now provides a
valuable tool that researchers from numerous fields can add to their toolbox of research …

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 …

This report summarizes progress made in understanding properties such as zero-phonon-
line energies, emission and absorption polarizations, electron–phonon couplings, strain …

Newly discovered van der Waals materials like MoS2, WSe2, hexagonal boron nitride (h-
BN), and recently C2N have sparked intensive research to unveil the quantum behavior …

This paper summarizes key findings in single-photon generation from deep level defects in
silicon carbide (SiC) and highlights the significance of these individually addressable …

During the past decades, numerous achievements concerning luminescent zinc oxide
nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) have been reported due to their improved luminescence and good …

Among a variety of layered materials used as building blocks in van der Waals
heterostructures, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) appears as an ideal platform for hosting …

We investigate the distribution and temperature-dependent optical properties of sharp, zero-
phonon emission from defect-based single photon sources in multilayer hexagonal boron …

Electrically driven single-photon emitting devices have immediate applications in quantum
cryptography, quantum computation and single-photon metrology. Mature device fabrication …