Role of hexagonal boron nitride in protecting ferromagnetic nanostructures from oxidation

Hexagonal boron-nitride nanomesh magnets

Defect-related photoluminescence of hexagonal boron nitride

Photoluminescence of polycrystalline hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) was measured by means of time-and energy-resolved spectroscopy methods. The observed bands are related to DAP transitions, impurities and structural defects. The excitation of samples by high-energy photons above 5.4 eV enables a phenomenon of photostimulated luminescence (PSL), which is due to distantly trapped CB electrons and...

Optoelectronic properties of hexagonal boron nitride epilayers

This paper summarizes recent progress primarily achieved in authors’ laboratory on synthesizing hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) epilayers by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) and studies of their structural and optoelectronic properties. The structural and optical properties of hBN epilayers have been characterized by x-ray diffraction (XRD) and photoluminescence (PL) studies and com...

TOPICAL REVIEW Graphene on Hexagonal Boron Nitride

The field of graphene research has developed rapidly since its first isolation by mechanical exfoliation in 2004. Due to the relativistic Dirac nature of its charge carriers, graphene is both a promising material for next-generation electronic devices and a convenient low-energy testbed for intrinsically high-energy physical phenomena. Both of these research branches require the facile fabricat...

Hexagonal boron nitride and 6H-SiC heterostructures