Photonic crystal cavities from hexagonal boron nitride

oleh: Sejeong Kim, Johannes E. Fröch, Joe Christian, Marcus Straw, James Bishop, Daniel Totonjian, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Milos Toth, Igor Aharonovich

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2018-07-01

Deskripsi

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a layered van der Waals material showing promise for nanophotonics. Here, the authors design hBN photonic crystal cavities with quality factors exceeding 2000, and further demonstrate deterministic tuning of individual cavities by minimally-invasive electron beam induced etching.