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Strain engineering has quickly emerged as a viable option to modify the electronic, optical and magnetic properties of 2D materials. However, it remains challenging to arbitrarily control the strain. Here we show that by creating…
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Strain is a powerful tool to modify the optical properties of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides like MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2. In this work we provide a thorough description of the technical details to perform uniaxial strain…
Mechanical strain is a powerful tool to tune the optical and optoelectronic properties of atomically thin semiconductors. Inhomogeneous strain plays an important role in exciton funneling and the activation of single-photon emitters in 2D…
Two-dimensional semiconductors have attracted considerable interest for integration into emerging quantum photonic networks. Strain engineering of monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (ML-TMDs) enables the tuning of light-matter…
Excitons -- bound electron-hole pairs -- play a central role in light-matter interaction phenomena, and are crucial for wide-ranging applications from light harvesting and generation to quantum information processing. A long-standing…
The trend towards ever smaller high-performance devices in modern technology requires novel materials with new functionalities. The recent emergence of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials has opened up possibilities for the…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising candidates for optoelectronic application and quantum information processes due to their inherent out-of-plane 2D confinement. In addition, they offer the possibility of achieving…
Strain engineering is an effective tool for tailoring the properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, especially for tuning quantum phenomena. Among the limited methods available for strain engineering under cryogenic conditions, thermal…
Localised emission from defect states in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides is of great interest for optoelectronic and quantum device applications. Recent progress towards high temperature localised emission relies on the…
Encoding and manipulating digital information in quantum degrees of freedom is one of the major challenges of today's science and technology. The valley indices of excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are well-suited to…
Atomically thin two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) can withstand large levels of strain before their irreversible damage occurs. This unique property offers a promising route for control of the optical…
We demonstrate a new localized excitonic state in patterned monolayer 2D semiconductors. This state is not associated with lattice disorder but is extrinsic, i.e. results from external molecules on the material surface. The signature of an…
Spin-forbidden intravalley dark exciton in tungsten-based transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), owing to its unique spin texture and long lifetime, has attracted intense research interest. Here, we show that we can control the dark…
We investigate experimentally and theoretically the behavior of the confined dark exciton in an InAs/GaAs semiconductor quantum dot, under the application of an external magnetic field in Voigt configuration. We show that by varying the…
Strain engineering has emerged as a powerful tool to modify the optical and electronic properties of two-dimensional crystals. Here we perform a systematic study of strained semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides. The effect of…
Self-trapped excitons (STEs), renowned for their unique radiative properties, have been harnessed in diverse photonic devices. Yet, a full comprehension and manipulation of STEs remain elusive. In this study, we present novel experimental…
Two dimensional semiconductors hosting strain-induced quantum emitters offer unique abilities to achieve scalable architectures for deterministic coupling to nanocavities and waveguides that are required to enable chip-based quantum…
Twist-engineering of the electronic structure of van-der-Waals layered materials relies predominantly on band hybridization between layers. Band-edge states in transition-metal-dichalcogenide semiconductors are localized around the metal…