Room-Temperature High-Purity Single Photon Emission from Carbon-Doped Boron Nitride Thin Films

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09556v1
• Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 16:53:57 GMT
• Title: Room-Temperature High-Purity Single Photon Emission from Carbon-Doped Boron Nitride Thin Films
• Authors: Arka Chatterjee, Abhijit Biswas, Addis S. Fuhr, Tanguy Terlier, Bobby G. Sumpter, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Igor Aharonovich, Shengxi Huang,
• Abstract summary: Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as an excellent host material for generating room temperature single photons.<n>Here, we demonstrate highly pure and stable single photon emitters (SPEs) in hBN by directly growing carbon-doped, centimeter-scale hBN thin films.
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• Abstract: Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as an excellent host material for generating room temperature single photons exhibiting high brightness and spin-photon entanglement. However, challenges in improving purity, stability, and scalability limit its use in quantum technologies. Here, we demonstrate highly pure and stable single photon emitters (SPEs) in hBN by directly growing carbon-doped, centimeter-scale hBN thin films using the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method. These SPEs exhibit room temperature operation with polarized emission, achieving a g(2)(0) value of 0.015, which is among the lowest reported for room temperature SPEs and the lowest achieved for hBN SPEs. It also exhibits high brightness ( around 0.5 million counts per second), remarkable stability during continuous operation (> 15 minutes), and a Debye-Waller factor of 45%. First-principles calculations reveal unique carbon defects responsible for these properties, enabled by PLD's low-temperature synthesis and in-situ doping. Our results demonstrate an effective method for large-scale production of high-purity, stable SPEs in hBN, enabling robust quantum optical sources for various applications.

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