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Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (2024)
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Shima, K., Cheng, T. S., Mellor, C. J., Beton, P. H., Elias, C., Valvin, P., …Chichibu, S. F. (2024). Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50502-9

Cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy is a suitable technique for studying the luminescent properties of optoelectronic materials because CL has no limitation on the excitable bandgap energy and eliminates ambiguous signals due to simple light scatte... Read More about Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride.

Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing (2023)
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Shiffa, M., Dewes, B. T., Bradford, J., Cottam, N. D., Cheng, T. S., Mellor, C. J., …Patanè, A. (2024). Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing. Small, 20(7), Article 2305865. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202305865

2D semiconductors (2SEM) can transform many sectors, from information and communication technology to healthcare. To date, top‐down approaches to their fabrication, such as exfoliation of bulk crystals by “scotch‐tape,” are widely used, but have limi... Read More about Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing.

Graphene nanoribbons with hBN passivated edges grown by high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (2023)
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Bradford, J., Cheng, T. S., James, T. S., Khlobystov, A. N., Mellor, C. J., Watanabe, K., …Beton, P. H. (2023). Graphene nanoribbons with hBN passivated edges grown by high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy. 2D Materials, 10(3), Article 035035. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/acdefc

Integration of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) in lateral heterostructures has provided a route to broadly engineer the material properties by quantum confinement of electrons or introduction of novel electronic and magnetic states at the... Read More about Graphene nanoribbons with hBN passivated edges grown by high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy.

Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride (2022)
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Cassabois, G., Fugallo, G., Elias, C., Valvin, P., Rousseau, A., Gil, B., …Novikov, S. (2022). Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride. Physical Review X, 12(1), Article 011057. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.12.011057

The light-matter interaction in bulk semiconductors is in the strong coupling regime with hybrid eigenstates, the so-called exciton-polaritons and phonon-polaritons. In two-dimensional (2D) systems, the translational invariance is broken in the direc... Read More about Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride.

Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride (2022)
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Cassabois, G., Fugallo, G., Elias, C., Valvin, P., Rousseau, A., Gil, B., …Novikov, S. (2022). Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride. Physical Review X, 12(1), Article 011057. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.011057

The light-matter interaction in bulk semiconductors is in the strong-coupling regime with hybrid eigenstates, the so-called exciton polaritons and phonon polaritons. In two-dimensional (2D) systems, the translational invariance is broken in the direc... Read More about Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride.

Band gap measurements of monolayer h-BN and insights into carbon-related point defects (2021)
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Román, R. J. P., Costa, F. J. R., Zobelli, A., Elias, C., Valvin, P., Cassabois, G., …Zagonel, L. F. (2021). Band gap measurements of monolayer h-BN and insights into carbon-related point defects. 2D Materials, 8(4), Article 044001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac0d9c

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 block for two-dimensional heterostructures and room temperature si... Read More about Band gap measurements of monolayer h-BN and insights into carbon-related point defects.

Epitaxy of boron nitride monolayers for graphene-based lateral heterostructures (2021)
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Wrigley, J., Bradford, J., James, T., Cheng, T. S., Thomas, J., Mellor, C. J., …Beton, P. H. (2021). Epitaxy of boron nitride monolayers for graphene-based lateral heterostructures. 2D Materials, 8(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/abea66

Monolayers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are grown on graphite substrates using high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (HT-MBE). The hBN monolayers are observed to grow predominantly from step edges on the graphite surface and exhibit a strong de... Read More about Epitaxy of boron nitride monolayers for graphene-based lateral heterostructures.

Identifying carbon as the source of visible single-photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride (2020)
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Mendelson, N., Chugh, D., Reimers, J. R., Cheng, T. S., Gottscholl, A., Long, H., …Aharonovich, I. (2021). Identifying carbon as the source of visible single-photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride. Nature Materials, 20(3), 321-328. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-00850-y

Single-photon emitters (SPEs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have garnered increasing attention over the last few years due to their superior optical properties. However, despite the vast range of experimental results and theoretical calculations,... Read More about Identifying carbon as the source of visible single-photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride.

Direct band-gap crossover in epitaxial monolayer boron nitride (2019)
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Elias, C., Valvin, P., Pelini, T., Summerfield, A., Mellor, C., Cheng, T., …Cassabois, G. (2019). Direct band-gap crossover in epitaxial monolayer boron nitride. Nature Communications, 10, Article 2639. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10610-5

Hexagonal boron nitride is a large band-gap insulating material which complements the electronic and optical properties of graphene and the transition metal dichalcogenides. However, the intrinsic optical properties of monolayer boron nitride remain... Read More about Direct band-gap crossover in epitaxial monolayer boron nitride.

Composition and strain relaxation of In x Ga1−x N graded core–shell nanorods (2018)
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Soundararajah, Q. Y., Webster, R. F., Griffiths, I. J., Novikov, S. V., Foxon, C. T., & Cherns, D. (2018). Composition and strain relaxation of In x Ga1−x N graded core–shell nanorods. Nanotechnology, 29(40), Article 405706. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aad38d

Two In x Ga1−x N nanorod samples with graded In compositions of x = 0.5–0 (Ga-rich) and x = 0.5–1 (In-rich) grown by molecular beam epitaxy were studied using transmission electron microscopy. The nanorods had a wurtzite crystal structure with growth... Read More about Composition and strain relaxation of In x Ga1−x N graded core–shell nanorods.