New paper out: „Plasma-induced optically active defects in hexagonal boron nitride“. We show that purely physical argon #plasma treatment is the most promising route for creating optically active #defect #emitters in #hBN by plasma exposure.
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/126/4/043103/3332361/Plasma-induced-optically-active-defects-in
Neat #QuantumSensing work out of 🇦🇺 where flakes of #2Dmaterials with defects in them are used to sense different things at the nanoscale about the material they're on top of when illuminated by a laser. In this case, they measure the magnetic field and temperature of an interesting ferromagnet
📰Quantum microscopy with van der Waals heterostructures, Nature Physics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01815-5
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-realmresearchers-prototype-quantum-microscopy.html
While quantum computing seems like the big-ticket item among the developing technologies based on the behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level, another direction promises to open a new door for scientific research itself—quantum microscopy.
Nicolas Wöhrl
Dr. Falko Schmidt
Dr. Aimee K. Gunther
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