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<p>Isotope-enriched bulk hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) crystals have enhanced properties that improve the performance of nanophotonic and quantum technologies. Developing methods to deposit epitaxial layers on such crystals enables the exciting prospects of producing isotope-engineered hBN layers and heterostructures. Here, we demonstrate the homoepitaxial growth of hBN with phase-separated <sup>10</sup>B and <sup>11</sup>B isotopes by high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (HT-MBE). Controlled nucleation, improved surface uniformity, and step-flow growth of an h<sup>10</sup>BN epilayer were achieved by etching the h<sup>11</sup>BN bulk crystals with molecular hydrogen. The alignment of the h<sup>10</sup>BN epilayer and host h<sup>11</sup>BN lattices was confirmed by lattice-resolved atomic force microscopy. Micro-Raman spectroscopy and scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy show that the bulk h<sup>11</sup>BN and h<sup>10</sup>BN epilayer have distinct phonon energies, with no intermixing of the van der Waals layers, thus enabling the different boron isotopes to be spatially separated in the heterostructure. This work demonstrates the potential of HT-MBE to produce isotopic heterostructures of hBN to advance future nanophotonic and quantum technologies.</p>

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Homoepitaxial growth of isotopically enriched h10BN layers on h11BN crystals by high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy

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    2025年11月19日

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  • Jonathan Bradford,
  • Amy F. M. Collins,
  • Tin S. Cheng,
  • Jialiang Shen,
  • James Kerfoot,
  • Graham A. Rance,
  • Jiahan Li,
  • Christopher J. Mellor,
  • Peter H. Beton,
  • Guillaume Cassabois,
  • Siyuan Dai,
  • James H. Edgar,
  • Sergei V. Novikov

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Isotope-enriched bulk hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) crystals have enhanced properties that improve the performance of nanophotonic and quantum technologies. Developing methods to deposit epitaxial layers on such crystals enables the exciting prospects of producing isotope-engineered hBN layers and heterostructures. Here, we demonstrate the homoepitaxial growth of hBN with phase-separated 10B and 11B isotopes by high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (HT-MBE). Controlled nucleation, improved surface uniformity, and step-flow growth of an h10BN epilayer were achieved by etching the h11BN bulk crystals with molecular hydrogen. The alignment of the h10BN epilayer and host h11BN lattices was confirmed by lattice-resolved atomic force microscopy. Micro-Raman spectroscopy and scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy show that the bulk h11BN and h10BN epilayer have distinct phonon energies, with no intermixing of the van der Waals layers, thus enabling the different boron isotopes to be spatially separated in the heterostructure. This work demonstrates the potential of HT-MBE to produce isotopic heterostructures of hBN to advance future nanophotonic and quantum technologies.