# Electrical Generation of Color Centers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

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2026-07-27T23:27:52.519706Z

## Updated at

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## First published url

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c01642

## Date published

2025-04-23

## Recorded date published

2025-4-23

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accepted_manuscript

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## Title

- title: Electrical Generation of Color Centers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: Defects in wide band gap crystals have emerged as a promising platform
    for hosting color centers that enable quantum photonic applications. Among these,
    hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a van der Waals material, stands out for its ability
    to be integrated into heterostructures, enabling unconventional charge injection
    mechanisms that bypass the need for p–n junctions. This advancement allows for
    the electrical excitation of hBN color centers deep inside the large hBN band
    gap, which has seen rapid progress in recent developments. Here, we fabricate
    hBN electroluminescence (EL) devices that generate narrowband color centers suitable
    for electrical excitation. The color centers are localized to tunneling current
    hotspots within the hBN flake, which are engineered during device fabrication.
    We outline the optimal conditions for device operation and color center stability,
    focusing on minimizing background emission and ensuring prolonged operation. Our
    findings follow up on the existing literature and mark a step forward toward the
    integration of hBN-based color centers into quantum photonic technologies.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: en

## Creator

- name: Ivan Zhigulin
  role: author
- name: Gyuna Park
  role: author
- name: Karin Yamamura
  role: author
- name: Kenji Watanabe
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-8119
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Takashi Taniguchi
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-3105
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Milos Toth
  role: author
- name: Jonghwan Kim
  role: author
- name: Igor Aharonovich
  role: author

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organization: American Chemical Society (ACS)

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## Keyword

- subject: Hexagonal boron nitride
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- subject: Color center
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- subject: Electroluminescence
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## Rights

- description: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work
    that appeared in final form in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, copyright ©
    2025 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the
    publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c01642
  identifier: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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## Embargo

start_date: 2025-04-10
end_date: 2026-04-10

## Journal

- title: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  issn: '19448252'
  volume: '17'
  issue: '16'
  start_page: 24129
  end_page: 24136

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## Funding

- funder_name: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- identifier: IITP-2023-RS2022-00164799
  funder_name: Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea
- identifier: NRF-2023R1A2C2007998
  funder_name: National Research Foundation of Korea
- identifier: CE200100010
  funder_name: Australian Research Council
- identifier: DP240103127
  funder_name: Australian Research Council
- identifier: FT220100053
  funder_name: Australian Research Council
- identifier: 21H05233
  funder_name: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- identifier: 23H02052
  funder_name: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- identifier: IBS-R034-D1
  funder_name: Institute for Basic Science
- identifier: F21YY7105002
  funder_name: Brain Korea 21 FOUR project for Education and research centre for future
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