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Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (2024)
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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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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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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.

Optical Monitoring of In Situ Iron Loading into Single, Native Ferritin Proteins (2023)
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Ferritin is a protein that stores and releases iron to prevent diseases associated with iron dysregulation in plants, animals, and bacteria. The conversion between iron-loaded holo-ferritin and empty apo-ferritin is an important process for iron regu... Read More about Optical Monitoring of In Situ Iron Loading into Single, Native Ferritin Proteins.

Diffractive metasurface light-shaping from fiber endoscope probes for increased depth of field (2023)
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In applications such as optical coherence tomography, there is a need both to achieve large depth of field by light shaping and to maintain ultracompact form factors. Flat metasurfaces on optical fibers can achieve such requirements, with designs suc... Read More about Diffractive metasurface light-shaping from fiber endoscope probes for increased depth of field.

The influence of magnetic vortices motion on the inverse ac Josephson effect in asymmetric arrays (2022)
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We report on the influence a preferential magnetic vortices motion has on the magnitude of the inverse ac Josephson effect (the appearance of dc current Shapiro steps) and the coherent operation of asymmetrical parallel arrays of YBa2Cu3O7−δ Josephso... Read More about The influence of magnetic vortices motion on the inverse ac Josephson effect in asymmetric arrays.

Reactive laser annealing of indium tin oxide: implications to crystal structure, defect composition, and plasma energy (2022)
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The mechanisms governing the modification of the optoelectronic properties of low carrier concentration indium tin oxide (ITO) during reactive laser annealing (ReLaA) are investigated. ReLA combines the advantages of reactive ambient thermal annealin... Read More about Reactive laser annealing of indium tin oxide: implications to crystal structure, defect composition, and plasma energy.

Photo-engineered optoelectronic properties of indium tin oxide via reactive laser annealing (2022)
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Transparent conductive oxides are appealing materials for optoelectronic and plasmonic applications as, amongst other advantages, their properties can be modulated by engineering their defects. Optimisation of this adjustment is, however, a complex d... Read More about Photo-engineered optoelectronic properties of indium tin oxide via reactive laser annealing.

Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride (2022)
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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.

Spectrally tailored hyperpixel filter arrays for efficient imaging of chemical compositions (2022)
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We present a method for designing and fabricating 'HyperPixels': pixel filter arrays with custom spectral transmission properties that enable efficient imaging of specific chromophores or fluorophores. Multispectral imaging typically targets particul... Read More about Spectrally tailored hyperpixel filter arrays for efficient imaging of chemical compositions.

Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride (2022)
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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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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.

Near infrared integrated photonic switches for portable quantum sensors (2021)
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A novel integrated semiconductor photonic switch, based on carrier-induced refractive index changes, has been designed and fabricated for use at near infrared wavelengths (890-920 nm, 750-780 nm and 745-775 nm). These switches are intended for use in... Read More about Near infrared integrated photonic switches for portable quantum sensors.

Epitaxy of boron nitride monolayers for graphene-based lateral heterostructures (2021)
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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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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.

Magnetic flux quantum periodicity of the frequency of the on-chip detectable electromagnetic radiation from superconducting flux-flow-oscillators (2020)
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Superconducting flux-flow-oscillators (FFOs) based on unidirectional flow of magnetic vortices in a single-long Josephson junction (JJ) and operating at 4.2 K are key elements of sub-terahertz integrated-receivers used in radio-astronomy and atmosphe... Read More about Magnetic flux quantum periodicity of the frequency of the on-chip detectable electromagnetic radiation from superconducting flux-flow-oscillators.

Direct band-gap crossover in epitaxial monolayer boron nitride (2019)
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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.

Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures (2018)
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The transfer of electronic charge across the interface of two van der Waals crystals can underpin the operation of a new class of functional devices. Amongst van der Waals semiconductors, an exciting and rapidly growing development involves the “post... Read More about Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures.

High-temperature molecular beam epitaxy of hexagonal boron nitride with high active nitrogen fluxes (2018)
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Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has attracted much attention as a key component in van der Waals heterostructures and as a wide band gap material for deep-ultraviolet devices. We have recently demonstrated plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE... Read More about High-temperature molecular beam epitaxy of hexagonal boron nitride with high active nitrogen fluxes.

Moiré-modulated conductance of hexagonal boron nitride tunnel barriers (2018)
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Monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) tunnel barriers investigated using conductive atomic force microscopy reveal moiré patterns in the spatial maps of their tunnel conductance consistent with the formation of a moiré superlattice between the hB... Read More about Moiré-modulated conductance of hexagonal boron nitride tunnel barriers.