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The manipulation of coupled quantum excitations is of fundamental importance in realizing novel photonic and optoelectronic devices. We use electroluminescence to probe plasmon-exciton coupling in hybrid structures consisting of a nanoscale…
By coupling silicon nanowires (~150 nm diameter, 20 micron length) with an {\Omega}-shaped plasmonic nanocavity we are able to generate broadband visible luminescence, which is induced by high-order hybrid nanocavity-surface plasmon modes.…
We studied multi-exciton dynamics in monolayer WSe2 using nonlinear photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy and Monte Carlo simulations. We observed strong nonlinear saturation behavior of exciton PL with increasing excitation power density,…
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We study bulk recombination in a medium with energetic disorder by using the multiple trapping (MT) model under continuous irradiation with excitation light. Charge densities are shown to obey power law as a function of the intensity of…
Strongly quantum-confined 2D colloidal PbS nanoplatelets (NPLs) are highly interesting materials for near-infrared optoelectronic applications. Here, we use ultrafast transient optical absorption spectroscopy to study the characteristics…