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Strain modulation is a crucial way in engineering nanoscale materials. It is even more important for single photon emitters in layered materials, where strain can create quantum emitters and control their energies. Here we report the…
We report the experimental observation of radiative recombination from Rydberg excitons in a two-dimensional semiconductor, monolayer WSe2, encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. Excitonic emission up to the 4s excited state is directly…
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMdC) are promising candidates for realization of a new generation of optoelectronic devices. The optical properties of these two-dimensional materials, however, vary from flake to flake, or…
Light-emitting diodes are of importance for lighting, displays, optical interconnects, logic and sensors. Hence the development of new systems that allow improvements in their efficiency, spectral properties, compactness and integrability…
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Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures have unique properties that depend on the twisting angle and stacking order of two or more monolayers. However, their practical applications are limited by the low photoluminescence…
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) single photon emitters (SPEs) offer numerous advantages to quantum information applications, such as high single photon purity and deterministic positioning. Strain in the host monolayer, induced by…
Single-layer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) WSe2 has recently attracted a lot of attention because it is a 2D semiconductor with a direct band-gap. Due to low doping levels it is intrinsic and shows ambipolar transport. This opens up…
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit bright photoluminescence, a desirable property for light-emitting diodes and single-photon emitters. Because the emission intensity is heavily influenced by factors such as…
Quantum light sources in solid-state systems are of major interest as a basic ingredient for integrated quantum device technologies. The ability to tailor quantum emission through deterministic defect engineering is of growing importance…
Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy in conjunction with second-order auto-correlation measurements of $g_2(\tau)$ allows to extensively study the synchronization of quantum light sources in low-dimensional structures. Co-existing excitons in…
Recent developments in fabrication of van der Waals heterostructures enable new type of devices assembled by stacking atomically thin layers of two-dimensional materials. Using this approach, we fabricate light-emitting devices based on a…
Single photons emitters (SPEs) are key components in quantum information applications and are commonly generated in 2D materials by inhomogeneous strain engineering. Here, we report an alternative approach that involves a 2D…
Quantum-dot-like WSe$_2$ single-photon emitters have become a promising platform for future on-chip scalable quantum light sources with unique advantages over existing technologies, notably the potential for site-specific engineering.…
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are a suitable platform for studying excitonic coherence in the light-matter coupling regime. We present an ab initio time-dependent GW-Bethe-Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) investigation of coherent…
Atomically flat semiconducting materials such as monolayer WSe$_2$ hold great promise for novel optoelectronic devices. Recently, quantum light emission has been observed from bound excitons in exfoliated WSe$_2$. As part of developing…
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer a novel two-dimensional platform for semiconductor devices. One such application, whereby the added low dimensional crystal physics (i.e. optical spin selection rules) may prove TMDs a…
Monolayer (ML) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) undergo substantial changes in the single-particle band structure and excitonic optical response upon the addition of just one layer. As opposed to the single-layer limit, the bandgap…
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct gap semiconductors that hold great promise for advanced applications in photonics and optoelectronics. Understanding the interplay between their radiative and non-radiative…