  The search for an ideal single-photon source has generated significant
interest in discovering novel emitters in materials as well as developing new
manipulation techniques to gain better control over the emitters' properties.
Quantum emitters in atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials have proven
very attractive with high brightness, operation under ambient conditions, and
the ability to be integrated with a wide range of electronic and photonic
platforms. This perspective highlights some of the recent advances in quantum
light generation from 2D materials, focusing on hexagonal boron nitride and
transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Efforts in engineering and
deterministically creating arrays of quantum emitters in 2D materials, their
electrical excitation, and their integration with photonic devices are
discussed. Lastly, we address some of the challenges the field is facing and
the near-term efforts to tackle them. We provide an outlook towards efficient
and scalable quantum light generation from 2D materials towards controllable
and addressable on-chip quantum sources.
