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  • 2021 - OSA Fellows Igor Aharonovich University of Technology Sydney, Australia For outstanding contributions to the research and development of quantum emitters in atomically thin materials and wide bandgap semiconductors
  • 2017 - Pawsey Medal, Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Igor Aharonovich is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Their research is primarily concentrated in the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work spans various topics, including Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research, Graphene research and applications, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Photonic and Optical Devices, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research, and 2D Materials and Applications.

Recent publications by Igor Aharonovich include the following papers:

  • The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies, 2021, Nature Reviews Physics
  • 2022 Roadmap on integrated quantum photonics, 2022, Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)
  • Spin defects in hBN as promising temperature, pressure and magnetic field quantum sensors, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Room-temperature optically detected magnetic resonance of single defects in hexagonal boron nitride, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Revealing multiple classes of stable quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride with correlated optical and electron microscopy, 2020, Nature Materials

Igor Aharonovich has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Milos Toth, Mehran Kianinia, Chi Li, Sejeong Kim, and Angus Gale.

The scientist's research outputs have been published extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ACS Photonics, Nano Letters, Advanced Optical Materials, and Nature Communications.

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACS Photonics
  • Nano Letters
  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • Nature Communications

Igor Aharonovich has received recognition through awards including the OSA Fellows in 2021 for contributions to quantum emitters in atomically thin materials and wide bandgap semiconductors, and the Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Science in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Solid-state single-photon emitters

    Igor Aharonovich;Dirk Englund;Milos Toth

  • Quantum emission from hexagonal boron nitride monolayers

    Toan Trong Tran;Kerem Bray;Michael J. Ford;Milos Toth

  • Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

    Joshua David Caldwell;Igor Aharonovich;Guillaume Cassabois;James H. Edgar

  • Robust multicolor single photon emission from point defects in hexagonal boron nitride

    Toan Trong Tran;Christopher Elbadawi;Daniel Totonjian;Charlene J Lobo

  • Diamond-based single-photon emitters

    I. Aharonovich;S. Castelletto;D. A. Simpson;C. H. Su

  • Identifying carbon as the source of visible single-photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride

    Noah Mendelson;Dipankar Chugh;Jeffrey R. Reimers;Jeffrey R. Reimers;Tin S. Cheng

  • Tunable and high-purity room temperature single-photon emission from atomic defects in hexagonal boron nitride

    Gabriele Grosso;Hyowon Moon;Benjamin Lienhard;Sajid Ali

  • Diamond Nanophotonics

    Igor Aharonovich;Elke Neu

  • Quantum nanophotonics with group IV defects in diamond.

    Carlo Bradac;Weibo Gao;Jacopo Forneris;Matthew E. Trusheim

  • Initialization and read-out of intrinsic spin defects in a van der Waals crystal at room temperature

    Andreas Gottscholl;Mehran Kianinia;Victor Soltamov;Sergei Orlinskii

  • First-principles investigation of quantum emission from hBN defects

    Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik;Sajid Ali;Sajid Ali;Marco Fronzi;Marco Fronzi;Mehran Kianinia

  • Optical metasurfaces: new generation building blocks for multi-functional optics

    Dragomir Neshev;Igor Aharonovich

  • Spin defects in hBN as promising temperature, pressure and magnetic field quantum sensors.

    Andreas Gottscholl;Matthias Diez;Victor Soltamov;Victor Soltamov;Christian Kasper

  • Deterministic Coupling of Quantum Emitters in 2D Materials to Plasmonic Nanocavity Arrays

    Toan Trong Tran;Danqing Wang;Zai Quan Xu;Ankun Yang

  • Engineering and Localization of Quantum Emitters in Large Hexagonal Boron Nitride Layers.

    Sumin Choi;Toan Trong Tran;Christopher Elbadawi;Charlene Lobo

  • Room-temperature optically detected magnetic resonance of single defects in hexagonal boron nitride

    Hannah L. Stern;John Jarman;Qiushi Gu;Simone Eizagirre Barker

  • Femtosecond Laser Writing of Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

    Xingyu Gao;Siddhant Pandey;Mehran Kianinia;Jonghoon Ahn

  • Multi-photon near-infrared emission saturation nanoscopy using upconversion nanoparticles.

    Chaohao Chen;Fan Wang;Shihui Wen;Qian Peter Su

  • Revealing multiple classes of stable quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride with correlated optical and electron microscopy.

    Fariah Hayee;Leo Yu;Jingyuan Linda Zhang;Christopher J. Ciccarino

  • Photonic crystal cavities from hexagonal boron nitride.

    Sejeong Kim;Johannes E. Fröch;Joe Christian;Marcus Straw

  • Single Photon Sources in Atomically Thin Materials

    Milos Toth;Igor Aharonovich

  • Two-level ultrabright single photon emission from diamond nanocrystals.

    Igor Aharonovich;Stefania Castelletto;David A. Simpson;Alastair Stacey

  • Room Temperature Initialisation and Readout of Intrinsic Spin Defects in a Van der Waals Crystal

    Andreas Gottscholl;Mehran Kianinia;Victor Soltamov;Carlo Bradac

  • Quantum emission from hexagonal boron nitride monolayers

    Igor Aharonovich;ToanTrong Tran;Kerem Bray;Michael J. Ford

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Prawer
Steven Prawer University of Melbourne
Zai-Quan Xu
Zai-Quan Xu University of Technology Sydney
Stefania Castelletto
Stefania Castelletto RMIT University
Michael J. Ford
Michael J. Ford University of Technology Sydney
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Adam Gali
Adam Gali Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Rachel A. Oliver
Rachel A. Oliver University of Cambridge
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem University of Adelaide

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