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Optically detected magnetic resonance of wafer-scale hexagonal boron nitride thin films

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Pith's one-line read The paper claims that all surveyed wafer-scale hBN films grown by MOCVD, CVD, or MBE show an ODMR response without irradiation or implantation, including a 3 nm film.

desk verdict A solid baseline survey of ODMR in wafer-scale hBN films, but the 'all films' claim outstrips the data because non-ODMR samples were excluded. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.21143 v1 pith:3ZVRWFRX submitted 2025-05-27 cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.mes-hall

Sam C. Scholten , Jakub Iwański , Kaijian Xing , Johannes Binder , Aleksandra K. Dąbrowska , Hark H. Tan , Tin S. Cheng , Jonathan Bradford
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Christopher J. Mellor Peter H. Beton Sergei V. Novikov Jan Mischke Sergej Pasko Emre Yengel Alexander Henning Simonas Krotkus Andrzej Wysmo{l}ek Jean-Philippe Tetienne
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The reading

This paper asks whether wafer-scale hexagonal boron nitride films made by standard vapour-phase deposition can host spin defects that are readable by optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) without any irradiation or implantation step. It surveys films grown by MOCVD, CVD, and MBE across thicknesses from 3 to 2000 nm, and reports that every surveyed film shows a single ODMR resonance at $g \approx 2$, including the thinnest 3 nm film. The best volume-normalized dc magnetic sensitivity is $30\,\mu\mathrm{T}\,\mathrm{Hz}^{-1/2}\,\mu\mathrm{m}^{3/2}$, achieved by an MOCVD-grown film. If this is right, scalable deposition alone can produce spin-active hBN films, giving a practical baseline for developing nanoscale magnetic sensors. The paper also identifies 800–900 °C as the optimal MOCVD growth-temperature window and shows post-growth annealing can improve sensitivity by up to two orders of magnitude.

What carries the argument

The central object is the hBN spin-pair ensemble: an unidentified class of optically addressable $S=1/2$ defects, thought to be carbon-related donor–acceptor pairs, whose metastable spin manifold gives a single ODMR resonance under 532 nm excitation and RF driving. The measurement machinery is a widefield microscope with a silver stripline delivering RF, a bias field of about 100 mT, and a Lorentzian fit to the resonance; the dc magnetic sensitivity is computed from $\eta_{\mathrm{dc}} = w/(\gamma C \sqrt{I_{\mathrm{PL}}})$ with thickness normalization. For the $g$-factor measurement, an NV-diamond on the same holder serves as a local calibration of the magnetic field so the hBN resonance frequency can be compared with the free-electron value.

What would settle it

A blind survey of a larger, unselected batch of MOCVD-, CVD-, and MBE-grown hBN films, measuring ODMR before any screening for contrast, would settle the claim: if a substantial fraction of those films show no discernible resonance, the 'all films' conclusion fails.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that vapour-phase deposition routes routinely used for wafer-scale hBN—MOCVD, CVD, and MBE—all yield an as-grown film with an ODMR-active spin ensemble. Under a bias field near 100 mT each surveyed film displays a single spin-1/2 resonance at the expected position, with contrast values from 0.01% to 0.64% (and one negative-contrast outlier, MOCVD-B). The most sensitive film, MOCVD-D, reaches a volume-normalized dc sensitivity of $30\,\mu\mathrm{T}\,\mathrm{Hz}^{-1/2}\,\mu\mathrm{m}^{3/2}$, about three orders of magnitude above a similarly thick $\delta$-doped NV-diamond layer. A growth-temperature series for MOCVD places the best magnetic sensitivity in the 800–900 °C range, and annealing at 1200 °C improves sensitivity by up to two orders of magnitude. A calibrated measurement yields $g = 2.0049(4)$ for the best film and $g = 2.00625(8)$ for a reference powder, a positive shift from the free-electron value that indicates a small orbital contribution to the spin-pair resonance.

Load-bearing premise

The survey omits samples without a discernible ODMR contrast (stated in Section III A), so the conclusion that MOCVD, CVD, and MBE films all exhibit ODMR—including a 3 nm film—holds only if the omitted samples are unrepresentative or irrelevant.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • As-grown MOCVD, CVD, and MBE hBN films are all usable for ODMR-based sensing without irradiation or implantation, removing a fabrication barrier for large-area two-dimensional sensors.
  • A 3 nm film still gives a detectable ODMR contrast, so near-atomically thin hBN layers are in principle viable for imaging with minimal sample-sensor standoff.
  • MOCVD growth near 800–900 °C, followed by a 1200 °C anneal, is the current recipe for best magnetic sensitivity in vapour-grown hBN.
  • The measured $g$-factor shift ($\Delta g > 2.6 \times 10^{-3}$) distinguishes the ODMR-probed spin-pair ensemble from the ground-state $S=1/2$ defects seen by ESR, showing the two techniques address different spin systems.
  • The best sensitivity of $30\,\mu\mathrm{T}\,\mathrm{Hz}^{-1/2}\,\mu\mathrm{m}^{3/2}$ sets a quantitative baseline for future hBN sensor optimization.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If spin activity is intrinsic to vapour-phase growth, then carbon incorporation during growth—rather than post-processing—may be the main lever for engineering hBN sensors, inviting a search over growth parameters that maximize carbon-related defects at high crystal quality.
  • The anti-correlation between ODMR and ESR contrast on the 700 °C sample suggests one growth condition can populate two different spin species; a double-resonance experiment could test whether the metastable ODMR-active pairs convert into the ESR-visible ground-state spins.
  • Because the survey preselected samples by visible ODMR contrast, a blind test on an unselected batch of films is the natural next check; if essentially every film shows a resonance, the 'as-grown' claim becomes a robust design rule.
  • The positive $g$-factor shift could be used to identify the spin-pair structure: comparing the measured value with first-principles predictions for candidate carbon complexes, such as carbon tetramers or donor-acceptor pairs, would test those assignments.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) measurements of wafer-scale hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) thin films (3–2000 nm) grown by MOCVD, CVD, and MBE. The authors find that all measured films exhibit an ODMR response, including a 3 nm CVD film, and characterize the dc magnetic sensitivity normalized by film thickness, reporting a best volume-normalized sensitivity of 30 µT Hz^-1/2 µm^3/2. They also study MOCVD films grown at different temperatures, with and without post-growth annealing, and measure the spin-pair g-factor against an NV-diamond calibration at cryogenic temperatures.

Significance. If the central claims hold, this work provides a useful baseline for producing spin-active hBN films by scalable vapor-phase growth without irradiation or implantation, which is relevant for magnetic sensing and quantum technology applications. The survey covers multiple growth methods and includes a systematic comparison with prior ESR data, and the use of bootstrapped fit uncertainties and an in-situ NV calibration for the g-factor measurement are notable strengths. The claims are falsifiable and the paper includes raw data in the Supplementary Information, which supports reproducibility.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section I, Section III A] The abstract and conclusion state that MOCVD, CVD, and MBE films 'all exhibit an ODMR response', but Section I explicitly says the survey proceeded by 'omitting samples without a discernible ODMR contrast', and Table I lists only samples that displayed ODMR. As presented, the data support an existence claim ('these growth routes can produce ODMR-active films') but not a universality claim ('these growth routes routinely produce ODMR-active films'). To support the stronger claim, the paper needs to report how many films were screened, how many were omitted, and the criteria for omission; otherwise, the 3 nm result in particular is a selected case rather than evidence of a general property. Please rescope the conclusions to an existence result or provide the omitted-sample statistics.
  2. [Section II A; Supplementary Information Table I] The volume-normalized sensitivities depend critically on the film thickness used for normalization, but the thickness verification shows discrepancies much larger than the stated 5% uncertainty. For the MBE sample, the AFM step height is 86 nm while the optical (XPS/VASE) thickness is 9 nm, and for MOCVD-D the AFM step is 40 nm while the literature thickness used in the main text is 90 nm. The Methods text says there is 'broad agreement' between optical and AFM thicknesses, which is contradicted by these data. Because the headline sensitivity of 30 µT Hz^-1/2 µm^3/2 is for MOCVD-D, a factor-of-two uncertainty in its thickness directly changes the claim; please quantify and propagate the systematic thickness uncertainty, or justify why the optical thickness is reliably correct despite the AFM discrepancy.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section III C] The statement 'consistent positive shift (Δg > 2.6×10^-3)' is not supported by the reported g-factors: for MOCVD-D, g = 2.0049(4) gives Δg = 0.0026 ± 0.0004, so the 1σ lower bound is about 0.0022, not 0.0026. Please report the actual uncertainty interval rather than using the central value as a lower bound.
  2. [Section II A] The phrase 'found broad agreement between optical and AFM thicknesses' is misleading given the MBE (86 vs 9 nm) and MOCVD-D (40 vs 90 nm) entries in SI Table I; please rephrase to acknowledge the large scatter and explain the exclusion of the AFM values explicitly.
  3. [Eq. (1)] The definition of I_PL as 'PL emission rate per nanometre of thickness summed over a 25 µm × 25 µm area' is ambiguous about whether it is a photon rate or a count rate; please state the units explicitly so that Eq. (1) yields the quoted sensitivity units of µT Hz^-1/2 µm^3/2.
  4. [Section II C] There are minor typographical issues: 'perpindicular' should be 'perpendicular', and 'an input 4WRFpower' appears as a typographical fragment in the CW ODMR description.
  5. [Section V, Fig. 5 caption] The phrase 'lines of worst fit' in the text describing Fig. 5(b) is unclear; it likely means the uncertainty bounds on the linear fit, and should be reworded.

Circularity Check

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Headline 'all films exhibit ODMR' is built into the sample-selection rule; the paper's quantitative results remain independent.

  1. self definitional [Sec. I (Introduction) and Abstract; cf. Sec. III A and Table I]
    "We begin with a survey of deposited films that were available to us classed based on the institution and technique of their providence, omitting samples without a discernible ODMR contrast. ... We find that they all exhibit an ODMR response, including the thinnest 3nm film, albeit with different characteristics."

    The surveyed set is defined by the presence of a discernible ODMR contrast, so the later statement that all surveyed films exhibit an ODMR response is a restatement of the inclusion criterion rather than an independent empirical result. The universal phrasing 'grown via three different methods' and the 3 nm highlight are claims about a pre-selected subset; no count or characteristics of the omitted non-ODMR films are reported, so the data cannot support a universal statement about MOCVD, CVD, or MBE films in general. The existence of the observed ODMR signals and the quantitative metrics are not affected.

full rationale

The paper's quantitative derivations are self-contained: dc sensitivity is computed from the standard formula eta_dc = w/(gamma C sqrt(I_PL)) using measured linewidth, contrast, and thickness-normalized PL; the g-factor is obtained by fitting measured resonances to Eq. 2 with an independent NV-diamond field calibration; the growth-temperature optimum is based on the authors' own ODMR data, with prior ESR [31] used only as comparison. Self-citations (e.g., MOCVD-D as 'TEB-30' from Ref. 22, powder batch 2 from Ref. 23, ESR series from Ref. 31) identify samples or provide context but are not load-bearing inputs to the new measurements. The one circular element is the sample-selection rule in the Introduction: by omitting samples without a discernible ODMR contrast, the paper guarantees that every surveyed film will exhibit ODMR, so the headline claim 'they all exhibit an ODMR response' is true by construction. This does not invalidate the measured sensitivities or trends, but it rescopes the universality claim to an existence result unless omitted-sample statistics are supplied.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper's central claims rest mostly on standard measurement formulas and sample calibration choices, not on fitted model parameters. The main assumptions are the ODMR sensitivity model, the g-factor resonance model, the equivalence of the NV-calibrated field at the hBN location, and the use of optically measured thickness as sensing volume.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Shot-noise-limited ODMR sensitivity model (Eq. 1), where PL rate per thickness is used as the photon count rate.
    The sensitivity comparison rests on the standard formula η = w/(γC√I_PL); deviations from shot noise or non-uniform PL would change sample rankings.
  • domain assumption The g-factor relation f_r = g μ_B B / (2h) (Eq. 2) applies to the spin-pair system.
    Used to extract g values; if the spin-pair resonance is not a simple isotropic S = 1/2 transition, the extracted g is model-dependent.
  • domain assumption The NV-diamond calibration field equals the magnetic field at the hBN samples.
    Section III C and Methods D measure samples sequentially without changing the field; field inhomogeneity would shift the extracted g-factor.
  • domain assumption Optically measured film thickness equals the sensing volume.
    SI Table I shows AFM and optical thicknesses disagree for the MBE sample (86 nm versus 9 nm); choosing the optical value affects all volume-normalized sensitivities.

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Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently been shown to host native defects exhibiting optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) with applications in nanoscale magnetic sensing and imaging. To advance these applications, deposition methods to create wafer-scale hBN films with controlled thicknesses are desirable, but a systematic study of the ODMR properties of the resultant films is lacking. Here we perform ODMR measurements of thin films (3-2000nm thick) grown via three different methods: metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD), chemical vapour deposition (CVD), and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). We find that they all exhibit an ODMR response, including the thinnest 3nm film, albeit with different characteristics. The best volume-normalised magnetic sensitivity obtained is 30uT/sqrt(Hz um^3). We study the effect of growth temperature on a series of MOCVD samples grown under otherwise fixed conditions and find 800-900C to be an optimum range for magnetic sensitivity, with a significant improvement (up to two orders of magnitude) from post-growth annealing. This work provides a useful baseline for the magnetic sensitivity of hBN thin films deposited via standard methods and informs the feasibility of future sensing applications.

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Figure 2. (b). The MOCVD-C sample records the highest ODMR contrast (0.64%) albeit with low PL emission (2 Mcounts/s/nm), conversely the MBE sample records the highest PL emission (1134 Mcounts/s/nm) with low ODMR contrast (0.04%). ODMR contrast is detectable down to the thinnest 3 nm CVD sample (0.01%). There are no clear trends between PL and C, though with attention to the growth parameters more information can be gleaned.… view at source ↗
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