Room-temperature single photon emitters in cubic boron nitride nanocrystals

被引:0
|
作者
Lopez-Morales, Gabriel, I [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Almanakly, Aziza [1 ,4 ]
Satapathy, Sitakanta [1 ]
Proscia, Nicholas, V [1 ]
Jayakumar, Harishankar [1 ]
Khabashesku, Valery N. [5 ,6 ]
Ajayan, Pulickel M. [6 ]
Meriles, Carlos A. [1 ,7 ]
Menon, Vinod M. [1 ,7 ]
机构
[1] CUNY, Dept Phys, City Coll, New York, NY 10031 USA
[2] CUNY, Dept Chem, Lehman Coll, Bronx, NY 10468 USA
[3] CUNY, Grad Ctr, PhD Program Chem, New York, NY 10016 USA
[4] Cooper Union Adv Sci & Art, Dept Elect Engn, New York, NY 10003 USA
[5] Baker Hughes, Ctr Technol Innovat, Houston, TX 77040 USA
[6] Rice Univ, Dept Mat Sci & NanoEngn, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[7] CUNY, Grad Ctr, PhD Program Phys, New York, NY 10016 USA
来源
OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS | 2020年 / 10卷 / 04期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
POINT-DEFECTS; LUMINESCENCE;
D O I
10.1364/OME.386791
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Color centers in wide bandgap semiconductors are attracting broad attention for use as platforms for quantum technologies relying on room-temperature single-photon emission (SPE), and for nanoscale metrology applications building on the centers' response to electric and magnetic fields. Here, we demonstrate room-temperature SPE from defects in cubic boron nitride (cBN) nanocrystals, which we unambiguously assign to the cubic phase using spectrally resolved Raman imaging. These isolated spots show photoluminescence (PL) spectra with zero-phonon lines (ZPLs) within the visible region (496-700 nm) when subject to sub-bandgap laser excitation. Second-order autocorrelation of the emitted photons reveals antibunching with g(2)(0) similar to 0.2, and a decay constant of 2.75 ns that is further confirmed through fluorescence lifetime measurements. The results presented herein prove the existence of optically addressable isolated quantum emitters originating from defects in cBN, making this material an interesting platform for opto-electronic devices and quantum applications. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
引用
收藏
页码:843 / 849
页数:7
相关论文
共 50 条
  • [1] Room-temperature single photon emitters in cubic boron nitride nanocrystals
    López-Morales, Gabriel I.
    Almanakly, Aziza
    Satapathy, Sitakanta
    Proscia, Nicholas V.
    Jayakumar, Harishankar
    Khabashesku, Valery N.
    Ajayan, Pulickel M.
    Meriles, Carlos A.
    Menon, Vinod M.
    [J]. Optical Materials Express, 2020, 10 (04): : 843 - 849
  • [2] Room-temperature single-photon emitters in silicon nitride
    Senichev, Alexander
    Martin, Zachariah O.
    Peana, Samuel
    Sychev, Demid
    Xu, Xiaohui
    Lagutchev, Alexei S.
    Boltasseva, Alexandra
    Shalaev, Vladimir M.
    [J]. SCIENCE ADVANCES, 2021, 7 (50)
  • [3] Room-temperature Single-photon Emitters in Silicon Nitride
    Senichev, Alexander
    Peana, Samuel
    Martin, Zachariah O.
    Sychev, Demid
    Xu, Xiaohui
    Kudyshev, Zhaxylyk
    Lagutchev, Alexei S.
    Boltasseva, Alexandra
    Shalaev, Vladimir M.
    [J]. 2021 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS (CLEO), 2021,
  • [4] Transferable room-temperature single-photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride grown by molecular beam epitaxy
    Lyu, Chao
    Liu, Fang
    Zang, Zhihao
    Wang, Tingting
    Li, Yanping
    Xu, Xiaolong
    Wang, Xinqiang
    Ye, Yu
    [J]. AIP ADVANCES, 2021, 11 (11)
  • [5] Room-temperature phonon-coupled single-photon emission in hexagonal boron nitride
    Lai, Jia-Min
    Tan, Qing-Hai
    Song, Feilong
    Chang, Haonan
    Lv, Yanpei
    Liu, Xue-Lu
    Teng, Jinghua
    Gao, Weibo
    Tan, Ping-Heng
    Zhang, Jun
    [J]. SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY, 2024, 67 (05)
  • [6] Room-temperature phonon-coupled single-photon emission in hexagonal boron nitride
    Jia-Min Lai
    Qing-Hai Tan
    Feilong Song
    Haonan Chang
    Yanpei Lv
    Xue-Lu Liu
    Jinghua Teng
    Weibo Gao
    Ping-Heng Tan
    Jun Zhang
    [J]. Science China(Physics,Mechanics & Astronomy), 2024, Mechanics & Astronomy) (05) : 113 - 118
  • [7] Room temperature growth of cubic boron nitride
    Feldermann, H
    Merk, R
    Hofsäss, H
    Ronning, C
    Zheleva, T
    [J]. APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 1999, 74 (11) : 1552 - 1554
  • [8] Single-Photon Emitters in Boron Nitride Nanococoons
    Ziegler, Joshua
    Blaikie, Andrew
    Fathalizadeh, Aidin
    Miller, David
    Yasin, Fehmi S.
    Williams, Kerisha
    Mohrhardt, Jordan
    McMorran, Benjamin J.
    Zettl, Alex
    Aleman, Benjamin
    [J]. NANO LETTERS, 2018, 18 (04) : 2683 - 2688
  • [9] Room-temperature single-photon emitters in titanium dioxide optical defects
    Chung, Kelvin
    Leung, Yu H.
    To, Chap H.
    Djurisic, Aleksandra B.
    Tomljenovic-Hanic, Snjezana
    [J]. BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY, 2018, 9 : 1085 - 1093
  • [10] Isolated single-photon emitters with low Huang-Rhys factor in hexagonal boron nitride at room temperature
    Bhunia, Amit
    Joshi, Pragya
    Singh, Nitesh
    Chakraborty, Biswanath
    Nair, Rajesh, V
    [J]. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS, 2024, 57 (39)