Publications

Journal publications

*For the full list of publication please go to Dr. Tran's Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=-q1YEH4AAAAJ&hl=en

54. Odebowale, A. A.; Abdulghani, A.; Berhe, A. M.; Somaweera, D.; Akter, S.; Abdo, S.; As’ham, K.; Saadabad, R. M.; Tran, T. T.; Bishop, D. P.; Solntsev, A. S.; Miroshnichenko, A. E.; Hattori, H. T., Emerging Low Detection Limit of Optically Activated Gas Sensors Based on 2d and Hybrid Nanostructures. Nanomaterials 2024, 14, 1521.
53. Mai, T. N. A.; Ali, S.; Hossain, M. S.; Chen, C.; Ding, L.; Chen, Y.; Solntsev, A. S.; Mou, H.; Xu, X.; Medhekar, N.; Tran, T. T., Cryogenic Thermal Shock Effects on Optical Properties of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024, 16, (15), 19340–19349.
52. Hossain, M. S.; Bacaoco, M.; Mai, T. N. A.; Ponchon, G.; Chen, C.; Ding, L.; Chen, Y.; Ekimov, E.; Xu, X.; Solntsev, A. S.; Tran, T. T., Fiber-Based Ratiometric Optical Thermometry with Silicon Vacancy in Microdiamonds. ACS Applied Optical Materials 2024, 2 (1), 97-107.
51. Ding, L.; Chen, C.; Shan, X.; Liu, B.; Wang, D.; Du, Z.; Zhao, G.; Su, Q. P.; Yang, Y.; Halkon, B.; Tran, T. T.; Liao, J.; Aharonovich, I.; Zhang, M.; Cheng, F.; Fu, L.; Xu, X.; Wang, F., Optical Nonlinearity Enabled Super-Resolved Multiplexing Microscopy. Adv. Mater. 2024, 36 (2), 2308844.
50. Stone, D. G.; Chen, Y.; Ekimov, E. A.; Tran, T. T.; Bradac, C. Diamond Nanothermometry Using a Machine Learning Approach. ACS Applied Optical Materials 2023, 1 (4), 898-905. DOI: 10.1021/acsaom.3c00059.
49. Chen, Y.; White, S.; Ekimov, E. A.; Bradac, C.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I.; Tran, T. T. Ultralow-Power Cryogenic Thermometry Based on Optical-Transition Broadening of a Two-Level System in Diamond. ACS Photonics 2023, 10 (8), 2481-2487. DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01622.
48. Chen, Y.; Li, C.; Yang, T.; Ekimov, E. A.; Bradac, C.; Ha, S. T.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I.; Tran, T. T., Real-Time Ratiometric Optical Nanoscale Thermometry. ACS Nano 2023, 17 (3), 2725-2736.
47. Tashima, T.; Takashima, H.; Schell, A. W.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I.; Takeuchi, S., Hybrid Device of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanoflakes with Defect Centres and a Nano-Fibre Bragg Cavity. Sci. Rep. 2022, 12 (1), 96.
46. Liu, D.; Chen, Y.; Tran, T. T.; Zhang, G., Facile and Rapid Assembly of High-Performance Tannic Acid Thin-Film Nanofiltration Membranes Via Fe3+ Intermediated Regulation and Coordination. Sep. Purif. Technol. 2021, 260, 118228.
45. Chen, Y.; Xu, X.; Li, C.; Bendavid, A.; Westerhausen, M. T.; Bradac, C.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I.; Tran, T. T., Bottom-up Synthesis of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanoparticles with Intensity-Stabilized Quantum Emitters. Small 2021, 17 (17), 2008062.
44. Chen, Y.; Westerhausen, M. T.; Li, C.; White, S.; Bradac, C.; Bendavid, A.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I.; Tran, T. T., Solvent-Exfoliated Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanoflakes for Quantum Emitters. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2021, 4 (10), 10449-10457.
43. Chen, Y.; Li, C.; White, S.; Nonahal, M.; Xu, Z.-Q.; Watanabe, K.; Taniguchi, T.; Toth, M.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I., Generation of High-Density Quantum Emitters in High-Quality, Exfoliated Hexagonal Boron Nitride. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13 (39), 47283-47292.
42. White, S. J. U.; Klauck, F.; Trong Tran, T.; Schmitt, N.; Kianinia, M.; Steinfurth, A.; Heinrich, M.; Toth, M.; Szameit, A.; Aharonovich, I.; Solntsev, A. S., Quantum Random Number Generation Using a Hexagonal Boron Nitride Single Photon Emitter. Journal of Optics 2020, 23 (1), 01LT01.
41. Takashima, H.; Maruya, H.; Ishihara, K.; Tashima, T.; Shimazaki, K.; Schell, A. W.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I.; Takeuchi, S., Determination of the Dipole Orientation of Single Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. ACS Photonics 2020.
40. Regan, B.; Aghajamali, A.; Froech, J.; Tran, T. T.; Scott, J.; Bishop, J.; Suarez-Martinez, I.; Liu, Y.; Cairney, J. M.; Marks, N. A.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I., Plastic Deformation of Single-Crystal Diamond Nanopillars. Adv. Mater. 2020, 32 (9), 1906458.
39. Mendelson, N.; Doherty, M.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I.; Tran, T. T., Strain-Induced Modification of the Optical Characteristics of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Adv. Mater. 2020, 32 (21), 1908316.
38. Chen, Y.; Tran, T. N.; Duong, N. M. H.; Li, C.; Toth, M.; Bradac, C.; Aharonovich, I.; Solntsev, A.; Tran, T. T., Optical Thermometry with Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12 (22), 25464-25470.
37. Camphausen, R.; Marini, L.; Tawfik, S. A.; Tran, T. T.; Ford, M. J.; Palomba, S., Observation of near-Infrared Sub-Poissonian Photon Emission in Hexagonal Boron Nitride at Room Temperature. APL Photonics 2020, 5 (7), 076103.
36. Bernhardt, N.; Koshelev, K.; White, S. J. U.; Meng, K. W. C.; Fröch, J. E.; Kim, S.; Tran, T. T.; Choi, D.-Y.; Kivshar, Y.; Solntsev, A. S., Quasi-Bic Resonant Enhancement of Second-Harmonic Generation in Ws2 Monolayers. Nano Lett. 2020, 20 (7), 5309-5314.
35. Tran, T. T.; Regan, B.; Ekimov, E. A.; Mu, Z.; Zhou, Y.; Gao, W.-b.; Narang, P.; Solntsev, A. S.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I.; Bradac, C., Anti-Stokes Excitation of Solid-State Quantum Emitters for Nanoscale Thermometry. Sci. Adv. 2019, 5 (5), eaav9180.
34. Tran, T. T.; Bradac, C.; Solntsev, A. S.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I., Suppression of Spectral Diffusion by Anti-Stokes Excitation of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2019, 115 (7), 071102.
33. Stewart, C.; Kianinia, M.; Previdi, R.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I.; Bradac, C., Quantum Emission from Localized Defects in Zinc Sulfide. Opt. Lett. 2019, 44 (19), 4873-4876.
32. Nikolay, N.; Mendelson, N.; Sadzak, N.; Böhm, F.; Tran, T. T.; Sontheimer, B.; Aharonovich, I.; Benson, O., Very Large and Reversible Stark-Shift Tuning of Single Emitters in Layered Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Phys. Rev. Appl. 2019, 11 (4), 041001.
31. Mendelson, N.; Xu, Z.-Q.; Tran, T. T.; Kianinia, M.; Scott, J.; Bradac, C.; Aharonovich, I.; Toth, M., Engineering and Tuning of Quantum Emitters in Few-Layer Hexagonal Boron Nitride. ACS Nano 2019, 13 (3), 3132-3140.
30. Duong, N. M. H.; Glushkov, E.; Chernev, A.; Navikas, V.; Comtet, J.; Nguyen, M. A. P.; Toth, M.; Radenovic, A.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I., Facile Production of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanoparticles by Cryogenic Exfoliation. Nano Lett. 2019, 19 (8), 5417-5422.
29. Abidi, I. H.; Mendelson, N.; Tran, T. T.; Tyagi, A.; Zhuang, M.; Weng, L.-T.; Özyilmaz, B.; Aharonovich, I.; Toth, M.; Luo, Z., Selective Defect Formation in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Adv. Opt. Mater. 2019, 0 (0), 1900397.
28. Zhang, Y.; Aughterson, R.; Karatchevtseva, I.; Kong, L.; Tran, T. T.; Čejka, J.; Aharonovich, I.; Lumpkin, G. R., Uranyl Oxide Hydrate Phases with Heavy Lanthanide Ions: [Ln(Uo2)2o3(Oh)]·0.5h2o (Ln = Tb, Dy, Ho and Yb). New J. Chem. 2018, 42 (15), 12386-12393.
27. Xu, Z.-Q.; Elbadawi, C.; Tran, T. T.; Kianinia, M.; Li, X.; Liu, D.; Hoffman, T. B.; Nguyen, M.; Kim, S.; Edgar, J. H.; Wu, X.; Song, L.; Ali, S.; Ford, M.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I., Single Photon Emission from Plasma Treated 2d Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Nanoscale 2018, 10 (17), 7957-7965.
26. Tran, T. T.; Kianinia, M.; Nguyen, M.; Kim, S.; Xu, Z.-Q.; Kubanek, A.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I., Resonant Excitation of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. ACS Photonics 2018, 5 (2), 295-300.
25. Nguyen, M.; Kim, S.; Tran, T. T.; Xu, Z.-Q.; Kianinia, M.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I., Nanoassembly of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride and Gold Nanospheres. Nanoscale 2018, 10, 2267-2274.
24. Kianinia, M.; Bradac, C.; Sontheimer, B.; Wang, F.; Tran, T. T.; Nguyen, M.; Kim, S.; Xu, Z.-Q.; Jin, D.; Schell, A. W.; Lobo, C. J.; Aharonovich, I.; Toth, M., All-Optical Control and Super-Resolution Imaging of Quantum Emitters in Layered Materials. Nat. Commun. 2018, 9 (1), 874.
23. Duong, N. M. H.; Xu, Z.-Q.; Kianinia, M.; Su, R.; Liu, Z.; Kim, S.; Bradac, C.; Tran, T. T.; Wan, Y.; Li, L.-J.; Solntsev, A.; Liu, J.; Aharonovich, I., Enhanced Emission from Wse2 Monolayers Coupled to Circular Bragg Gratings. ACS Photonics 2018, 5 (10), 3950-3955.
22. Dai, S.; Tymchenko, M.; Xu, Z.-Q.; Tran, T. T.; Yang, Y.; Ma, Q.; Watanabe, K.; Taniguchi, T.; Jarillo-Herrero, P.; Aharonovich, I.; Basov, D. N.; Tao, T. H.; Alù, A., Internal Nanostructure Diagnosis with Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Nano Lett. 2018, 18 (8), 5205-5210.
21. Tran, T. T.; Wang, D.; Xu, Z.-Q.; Yang, A.; Toth, M.; Odom, T. W.; Aharonovich, I., Deterministic Coupling of Quantum Emitters in 2d Materials to Plasmonic Nanocavity Arrays. Nano Lett. 2017, 17 (4), 2634-2639.
20. Tran, T. T.; Kianinia, M.; Bray, K.; Kim, S.; Xu, Z.-Q.; Gentle, A.; Sontheimer, B.; Bradac, C.; Aharonovich, I., Nanodiamonds with Photostable, Sub-Gigahertz Linewidth Quantum Emitters. APL Photonics 2017, 2 (11), 116103.
19. Tran, T. T.; Choi, S.; Scott, J. A.; Xu, Z.-Q.; Zheng, C.; Seniutinas, G.; Bendavid, A.; Fuhrer, M. S.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I., Room-Temperature Single-Photon Emission from Oxidized Tungsten Disulfide Multilayers. Adv. Opt. Mater. 2017, 5 (5), 1600939-n/a.
18. Tawfik, S. A.; Ali, S.; Fronzi, M.; Kianinia, M.; Tran, T. T.; Stampfl, C.; Aharonovich, I.; Toth, M.; Ford, M. J., First-Principles Investigation of Quantum Emission from Hbn Defects. Nanoscale 2017, 9 (36), 13575-13582.
17. Schell, A. W.; Takashima, H.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I.; Takeuchi, S., Coupling Quantum Emitters in 2d Materials with Tapered Fibers. ACS Photonics 2017, 4 (4), 761-767.
16. Kianinia, M.; Regan, B.; Tawfik, S. A.; Tran, T. T.; Ford, M. J.; Aharonovich, I.; Toth, M., Robust Solid-State Quantum System Operating at 800 K. ACS Photonics 2017, 4 (4), 768-773.
15. Zhang, Y.; Karatchevtseva, I.; Bhadbhade, M.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I.; Fanna, D. J.; Shepherd, N. D.; Lu, K.; Li, F.; Lumpkin, G. R., Solvothermal Synthesis of Uranium(Vi) Phases with Aromatic Carboxylate Ligands: A Dinuclear Complex with 4-Hydroxybenzoic Acid and a 3d Framework with Terephthalic Acid. J. Solid State Chem. 2016, 234, 22-28.
14. Zhang, Y.; Clegg, J. K.; Lu, K.; Lumpkin, G. R.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I.; Scales, N.; Li, F., Uranium(Vi) Hybrid Materials with [(Uo2)3(µ3-O)(µ2-Oh)3]+ as the Sub–Building Unit Via Uranyl–Cation Interactions. ChemistrySelect 2016, 1 (1), 7-12.
13. Zhang, Y.; Cejka, J.; Lumpkin, G. R.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I.; Karatchevtseva, I.; Price, J. R.; Scales, N.; Lu, K., Hydrothermal Synthesis, Structures and Properties of Two Uranyl Oxide Hydroxyl Hydrate Phases with Co(Ii) or Ni(Ii) Ions. New J. Chem. 2016, 40 (6), 5357-5363.
12. Tran, T. T.; Zachreson, C.; Berhane, A. M.; Bray, K.; Sandstrom, R. G.; Li, L. H.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Aharonovich, I.; Toth, M., Quantum Emission from Defects in Single-Crystalline Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Phys. Rev. Appl. 2016, 5 (3), 034005.
11. Tran, T. T.; Elbadawi, C.; Totonjian, D.; Lobo, C. J.; Grosso, G.; Moon, H.; Englund, D. R.; Ford, M. J.; Aharonovich, I.; Toth, M., Robust Multicolor Single Photon Emission from Point Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. ACS Nano 2016, 10 (8), 7331-7338.
10. Tran, T. T.; Bray, K.; Ford, M. J.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I., Quantum Emission from Hexagonal Boron Nitride Monolayers. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2016, 11 (1), 37-41.
9. Scott, J. A.; Totonjian, D.; Martin, A. A.; Tran, T. T.; Fang, J.; Toth, M.; McDonagh, A. M.; Aharonovich, I.; Lobo, C. J., Versatile Method for Template-Free Synthesis of Single Crystalline Metal and Metal Alloy Nanowires. Nanoscale 2016, 8 (5), 2804-2810.
8. Schell, A. W.; Tran, T. T.; Takashima, H.; Takeuchi, S.; Aharonovich, I., Non-Linear Excitation of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Multiplayers. APL Photonics 2016, 1 (9), 091302.
7. Lienhard, B.; Schröder, T.; Mouradian, S.; Dolde, F.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I.; Englund, D., Bright and Photostable Single-Photon Emitter in Silicon Carbide. Optica 2016, 3 (7), 768-774.
6. Elbadawi, C.; Tran, T. T.; Kolibal, M.; Sikola, T.; Scott, J.; Cai, Q.; Li, L. H.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I.; Lobo, C., Electron Beam Directed Etching of Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Nanoscale 2016, 8 (36), 16182-16186.
5. Choi, S.; Tran, T. T.; Elbadawi, C.; Lobo, C.; Wang, X.; Juodkazis, S.; Seniutinas, G.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I., Engineering and Localization of Quantum Emitters in Large Hexagonal Boron Nitride Layers. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 8 (43), 29642-29648.
4. Tran, T. T.; Fang, J.; Zhang, H.; Rath, P.; Bray, K.; Sandstrom, R. G.; Shimoni, O.; Toth, M.; Aharonovich, I., Facile Self-Assembly of Quantum Plasmonic Circuit Components. Adv. Mater. 2015, 27 (27), 4048-4053.
3. Tran, T. T.; Lu, X., Synergistic Effect of Ag and Pd Ions on Shape-Selective Growth of Polyhedral Au Nanocrystals with High-Index Facets. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2011, 115 (9), 3638-3645.
2. Pan, H. H.; Wang, Z. K.; Lim, H. S.; Ng, S. C.; Zhang, V. L.; Kuok, M. H.; Tran, T. T.; Lu, X. M., Hypersonic Confined Eigenvibrations of Gold Nano-Octahedra. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2011, 98 (13), 133123.
1. Sun, J. Y.; Wang, Z. K.; Lim, H. S.; Ng, S. C.; Kuok, M. H.; Tran, T. T.; Lu, X., Hypersonic Vibrations of Ag@Sio2 (Cubic Core)−Shell Nanospheres. ACS Nano 2010, 4 (12), 7692-7698.

Patents

1. Bishop, J.; Tran, T. T.; Aharonovich, I.; Lobo, C.; Toth, M. Nanofabrication using a new class of electron beam induced surface processing techniques. Google Patents: 2022.