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Tang H, Wang Y, Ni X, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Jarillo-Herrero P, Fan S, Mazur E, Yacoby A, Cao Y. On-chip multi-degree-of-freedom control of two-dimensional materials. Nature 2024; 632:1038-1044. [PMID: 39169189 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07826-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 07/12/2024] [Indexed: 08/23/2024]
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Two-dimensional materials (2DM) and their heterostructures offer tunable electrical and optical properties, primarily modifiable through electrostatic gating and twisting. Although electrostatic gating is a well-established method for manipulating 2DM, achieving real-time control over interfacial properties remains challenging in exploring 2DM physics and advanced quantum device technology1-6. Current methods, often reliant on scanning microscopes, are limited in their scope of application, lacking the accessibility and scalability of electrostatic gating at the device level. Here we introduce an on-chip platform for 2DM with in situ adjustable interfacial properties, using a microelectromechanical system (MEMS). This platform comprises compact and cost-effective devices with the ability of precise voltage-controlled manipulation of 2DM, including approaching, twisting and pressurizing actions. We demonstrate this technology by creating synthetic topological singularities, such as merons, in the nonlinear optical susceptibility of twisted hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN)7-10. A key application of this technology is the development of integrated light sources with real-time and wide-range tunable polarization. Furthermore, we predict a quantum analogue that can generate entangled photon pairs with adjustable entanglement properties. Our work extends the abilities of existing technologies in manipulating low-dimensional quantum materials and paves the way for new hybrid two- and three-dimensional devices, with promising implications in condensed-matter physics, quantum optics and related fields.
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- Haoning Tang
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Li C, Luo H, Hou L, Wang Q, Liu K, Gan X, Zhao J, Xiao F. Giant Photoluminescence Enhancement of Monolayer WSe 2 Using a Plasmonic Nanocavity with On-Demand Resonance. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:5879-5885. [PMID: 38652056 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are considered promising building blocks for next-generation photonic and optoelectronic devices, owing to their fascinating optical properties. However, their inherent weak light absorption and low quantum yield severely hinder their practical applications. Here, we report up to 18000-fold photoluminescence (PL) enhancement in a monolayer WSe2-coupled plasmonic nanocavity. A spectroscopy-assisted nanomanipulation technique enables the assembly of a nanocavity with customizable resonances to simultaneously enhance the excitation and emission processes. In particular, precise control over the magnetic cavity mode facilitates spectral and spatial overlap with the exciton, resulting in plasmon-exciton intermediate coupling that approaches the maximum emission rate in the hybrid system. Meanwhile, the cavity mode exhibits high radiation directivity, which overwhelmingly directs surface-normal PL emission and leads to a 17-fold increase in the collection efficiency. Our approach opens up a new avenue to enhance the PL intensity of monolayer TMDs, facilitating their implementation in highly efficient optoelectronic devices.
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- Chenyang Li
- Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China
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- Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China
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- Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China
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- Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Quantum Matter, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China
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- Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China
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- Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China
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Sun X, Suriyage M, Khan AR, Gao M, Zhao J, Liu B, Hasan MM, Rahman S, Chen RS, Lam PK, Lu Y. Twisted van der Waals Quantum Materials: Fundamentals, Tunability, and Applications. Chem Rev 2024; 124:1992-2079. [PMID: 38335114 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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Twisted van der Waals (vdW) quantum materials have emerged as a rapidly developing field of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. These materials establish a new central research area and provide a promising platform for studying quantum phenomena and investigating the engineering of novel optoelectronic properties such as single photon emission, nonlinear optical response, magnon physics, and topological superconductivity. These captivating electronic and optical properties result from, and can be tailored by, the interlayer coupling using moiré patterns formed by vertically stacking atomic layers with controlled angle misorientation or lattice mismatch. Their outstanding properties and the high degree of tunability position them as compelling building blocks for both compact quantum-enabled devices and classical optoelectronics. This paper offers a comprehensive review of recent advancements in the understanding and manipulation of twisted van der Waals structures and presents a survey of the state-of-the-art research on moiré superlattices, encompassing interdisciplinary interests. It delves into fundamental theories, synthesis and fabrication, and visualization techniques, and the wide range of novel physical phenomena exhibited by these structures, with a focus on their potential for practical device integration in applications ranging from quantum information to biosensors, and including classical optoelectronics such as modulators, light emitting diodes, lasers, and photodetectors. It highlights the unique ability of moiré superlattices to connect multiple disciplines, covering chemistry, electronics, optics, photonics, magnetism, topological and quantum physics. This comprehensive review provides a valuable resource for researchers interested in moiré superlattices, shedding light on their fundamental characteristics and their potential for transformative applications in various fields.
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- Xueqian Sun
- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
- Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology (Rachna College Campus), Gujranwala, Lahore 54700, Pakistan
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- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
- College of Engineering and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400716, China
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- Department of Quantum Science & Technology, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Department of Quantum Science & Technology, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis #08-03, Singapore 138634, Republic of Singapore
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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Anand V S A, Sahoo MK, Mujeeb F, Varghese A, Dhar S, Lodha S, Kumar A. Novel Nano-Electroplating-Based Plasmonic Platform for Giant Emission Enhancement in Monolayer Semiconductors. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023. [PMID: 38044673 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c11564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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Two-dimensional semiconductors such as monolayer MoS2 have attracted considerable attention owing to their exceptional electronic and optical characteristics. However, their practical application has been hindered by the limited light absorption resulting from atomically thin thickness and low quantum yield. A highly effective approach to address these limitations is by integrating subwavelength plasmonic nanostructures with monolayer semiconductors. In this study, we employed electron beam lithography and nanoelectroplating techniques to develop a gold nanodisc (AuND) array plasmonic platform. Monolayer MoS2 transferred on top of the AuND array yields up to 150-fold photoluminescence enhancement compared to a gold film without normalization with respect to plasmonic hot spots. In addition, the unique protocol of nanoelectroplating helps to get flat-top cylindrical discs which enable less tear during the delicate wet transfer of monolayer MoS2. We explain our experimental findings based on electromagnetic simulations.
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- Abhay Anand V S
- Laboratory of Optics of Quantum Materials (LOQM), Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, India
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- Laboratory of Optics of Quantum Materials (LOQM), Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, India
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- Laboratory of Optics of Quantum Materials (LOQM), Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, India
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Lawless J, McCormack O, Pepper J, McEvoy N, Bradley AL. Spectral Tuning of a Nanoparticle-on-Mirror System by Graphene Doping and Gap Control with Nitric Acid. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:38901-38909. [PMID: 37534572 PMCID: PMC10436242 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c05302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023]
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Nanoparticle-on-mirror systems are a stable, robust, and reproducible method of squeezing light into sub-nanometer volumes. Graphene is a particularly interesting material to use as a spacer in such systems as it is the thinnest possible 2D material and can be doped both chemically and electrically to modulate the plasmonic modes. We investigate a simple nanoparticle-on-mirror system, consisting of a Au nanosphere on top of an Au mirror, separated by a monolayer of graphene. With this system, we demonstrate, with both experiments and numerical simulations, how the doping of the graphene and the control of the gap size can be controlled to tune the plasmonic response of the coupled nanosphere using nitric acid. The coupling of the Au nanosphere and Au thin film reveals multipolar modes which can be tuned by adjusting the gap size or doping an intermediate graphene monolayer. At high doping levels, the interaction between the charge-transfer plasmon and gap plasmon leads to splitting of the plasmon energies. The study provides evidence for the unification of theories proposed by previous works investigating similar systems.
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- Julia Lawless
- School
of Physics and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- School
of Physics and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- School
of Chemistry and AMBER, Trinity College
Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- School
of Chemistry and AMBER, Trinity College
Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- School
of Physics and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Jalali M, Del Real Mata C, Montermini L, Jeanne O, I Hosseini I, Gu Z, Spinelli C, Lu Y, Tawil N, Guiot MC, He Z, Wachsmann-Hogiu S, Zhou R, Petrecca K, Reisner WW, Rak J, Mahshid S. MoS 2-Plasmonic Nanocavities for Raman Spectra of Single Extracellular Vesicles Reveal Molecular Progression in Glioblastoma. ACS NANO 2023. [PMID: 37366177 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c09222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are continually released from cancer cells into biofluids, carrying actionable molecular fingerprints of the underlying disease with considerable diagnostic and therapeutic potential. The scarcity, heterogeneity and intrinsic complexity of tumor EVs present a major technological challenge in real-time monitoring of complex cancers such as glioblastoma (GBM). Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) outputs a label-free spectroscopic fingerprint for EV molecular profiling. However, it has not been exploited to detect known biomarkers at the single EV level. We developed a multiplex fluidic device with embedded arrayed nanocavity microchips (MoSERS microchip) that achieves 97% confinement of single EVs in a minute amount of fluid (<10 μL) and enables molecular profiling of single EVs with SERS. The nanocavity arrays combine two featuring characteristics: (1) An embedded MoS2 monolayer that enables label-free isolation and nanoconfinement of single EVs due to physical interaction (Coulomb and van der Waals) between the MoS2 edge sites and the lipid bilayer; and (2) A layered plasmonic cavity that enables sufficient electromagnetic field enhancement inside the cavities to obtain a single EV level signal resolution for stratifying the molecular alterations. We used the GBM paradigm to demonstrate the diagnostic potential of the SERS single EV molecular profiling approach. The MoSERS multiplexing fluidic achieves parallel signal acquisition of glioma molecular variants (EGFRvIII oncogenic mutation and MGMT expression) in GBM cells. The detection limit of 1.23% was found for stratifying these key molecular variants in the wild-type population. When interfaced with a convolutional neural network (CNN), MoSERS improved diagnostic accuracy (87%) with which GBM mutations were detected in 12 patient blood samples, on par with clinical pathology tests. Thus, MoSERS demonstrates the potential for molecular stratification of cancer patients using circulating EVs.
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- Mahsa Jalali
- Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E9, Canada
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- Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RIMUHC), Montreal, Quebec H4A 3J1, Canada
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- Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E9, Canada
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- Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E9, Canada
- Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada
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- College of Physical Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China
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- Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RIMUHC), Montreal, Quebec H4A 3J1, Canada
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- Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E9, Canada
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- Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RIMUHC), Montreal, Quebec H4A 3J1, Canada
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- Department of Neuropathology, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Institute of Quantitative Biology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 China
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- Institute of Quantitative Biology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 China
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- Department of Neuropathology, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada
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- Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RIMUHC), Montreal, Quebec H4A 3J1, Canada
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- Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E9, Canada
- Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H4A 3J1, Canada
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Asaithambi A, Kazemi Tofighi N, Ghini M, Curreli N, Schuck PJ, Kriegel I. Energy transfer and charge transfer between semiconducting nanocrystals and transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:7717-7730. [PMID: 37199319 PMCID: PMC10281493 DOI: 10.1039/d3cc01125a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Nowadays, as a result of the emergence of low-dimensional hybrid structures, the scientific community is interested in their interfacial carrier dynamics, including charge transfer and energy transfer. By combining the potential of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and nanocrystals (NCs) with low-dimensional extension, hybrid structures of semiconducting nanoscale matter can lead to fascinating new technological scenarios. Their characteristics make them intriguing candidates for electronic and optoelectronic devices, like transistors or photodetectors, bringing with them challenges but also opportunities. Here, we will review recent research on the combined TMD/NC hybrid system with an emphasis on two major interaction mechanisms: energy transfer and charge transfer. With a focus on the quantum well nature in these hybrid semiconductors, we will briefly highlight state-of-the-art protocols for their structure formation and discuss the interaction mechanisms of energy versus charge transfer, before concluding with a perspective section that highlights novel types of interactions between NCs and TMDs.
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- Aswin Asaithambi
- Functional Nanosystems, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, Genova, 16163, Italy.
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- Functional Nanosystems, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, Genova, 16163, Italy.
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- Functional Nanosystems, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, Genova, 16163, Italy.
- Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- Functional Nanosystems, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, Genova, 16163, Italy.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Functional Nanosystems, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, Genova, 16163, Italy.
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Bao X, Wu X, Ke Y, Wu K, Jiang C, Wu B, Li J, Yue S, Zhang S, Shi J, Du W, Zhong Y, Hu H, Bai P, Gong Y, Zhang Q, Zhang W, Liu X. Giant Out-of-Plane Exciton Emission Enhancement in Two-Dimensional Indium Selenide via a Plasmonic Nanocavity. NANO LETTERS 2023; 23:3716-3723. [PMID: 37125916 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Out-of-plane (OP) exciton-based emitters in two-dimensional semiconductor materials are attractive candidates for novel photonic applications, such as radially polarized sources, integrated photonic chips, and quantum communications. However, their low quantum efficiency resulting from forbidden transitions limits their practicality. In this work, we achieve a giant enhancement of up to 34000 for OP exciton emission in indium selenide (InSe) via a designed Ag nanocube-over-Au film plasmonic nanocavity. The large photoluminescence enhancement factor (PLEF) is attributed to the induced OP local electric field (Ez) within the nanocavity, which facilitates effective OP exciton-plasmon interaction and subsequent tremendous enhancement. Moreover, the nanoantenna effect resulting from the effective interaction improves the directivity of spontaneous radiation. Our results not only reveal an effective photoluminescence enhancement approach for OP excitons but also present an avenue for designing on-chip photonic devices with an OP dipole orientation.
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- Xiaotian Bao
- Department of Physics and Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Center for Advanced Quantum Studies, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute of Electronic Paper Displays, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Optical Information and Pattern Recognition, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics and Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Center for Advanced Quantum Studies, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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Zhang W, Gao L, Yan X, Xu H, Wei H. Excitation and emission distinguished photoluminescence enhancement in a plasmon-exciton intermediate coupling system. NANOSCALE 2023; 15:7812-7819. [PMID: 37042656 DOI: 10.1039/d2nr07001d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Plasmonic nanocavities with tunable resonances provide a powerful platform to manipulate the light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. Here, we investigate the coupling between monolayer MoS2 and the nanocavity formed by a silver nanowire (NW) and a gold film. The splitting of scattering spectra indicates intermediate coupling between the plasmon mode and two exciton states. The coupled system shows a photoluminescence (PL) intensity enhancement of 86-fold for the nanocavity with an appropriate NW diameter. In particular, the excitation and emission enhancement factors are experimentally distinguished, and the simulation results confirm the plasmon resonance dependent excitation and emission enhancements. Moreover, it is shown that the PL emission from the hybrid system becomes strongly polarized, and the degree of linear polarization larger than 0.9 is obtained. These results demonstrate the tunable coupling between plasmon mode and exciton states and help in deepening the understanding of the PL enhancement mechanisms.
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- Wenjun Zhang
- School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
- School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
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Madeleine T, D'Alessandro G, Kaczmarek M. Spectral properties of intermediate to high refractive index nanocubes. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:11395-11407. [PMID: 37155775 DOI: 10.1364/oe.485872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Plasmonic resonances in sub-wavelength cavities, created by metallic nanocubes separated from a metallic surface by a dielectric gap, lead to strong light confinement and strong Purcell effect, with many applications in spectroscopy, enhanced light emission and optomechanics. However, the limited choice of metals, and the constraints on the sizes of the nanocubes, restrict the optical wavelength range of applications. We show that dielectric nanocubes made of intermediate to high refractive index materials exhibit similar but significantly blue shifted and enriched optical responses due to the interaction between gap plasmonic modes and internal modes. This result is explained, and the efficiency of dielectric nanocubes for light absorption and spontaneous emission is quantified by comparing the optical response and induced fluorescence enhancement of nanocubes made of barium titanate, tungsten trioxide, gallium phosphide, silicon, silver and rhodium.
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Park S, Kim D, Choi YS, Baucour A, Kim D, Yoon S, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Shin J, Kim J, Seo MK. Customizing Radiative Decay Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Excitons via Position- and Polarization-Dependent Vacuum-Field Interference. NANO LETTERS 2023; 23:2158-2165. [PMID: 36854053 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Embodying bosonic and interactive characteristics in two-dimensional space, excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have garnered considerable attention. The utilization of the strong-correlation effects, long-range transport, and valley-dependent properties requires customizing exciton decay dynamics. Vacuum-field manipulation allows radiative decay engineering without disturbing intrinsic material properties. However, conventional flat mirrors cannot customize the radiative decay landscape in TMDC's plane or support vacuum-field interference with desired spectrum and polarization properties. Here, we present a meta-mirror platform resolving the issues with more optical degrees of freedom. For neutral excitons of the monolayer MoSe2, the optical layout formed by meta-mirrors manipulated the radiative decay rate in space by 2 orders of magnitude and revealed the statistical correlation between emission intensity and spectral line width. Moreover, the anisotropic meta-mirror demonstrated polarization-dependent radiative decay control. Our platform would be promising to tailor two-dimensional distributions of lifetime, density, diffusion, and polarization of TMDC excitons in advanced opto-excitonic applications.
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- Sanghyeok Park
- Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
- Center for van der Waals Quantum Solids, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
- Center for van der Waals Quantum Solids, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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Xiong X, Clarke D, Lai Y, Bai P, Png CE, Wu L, Hess O. Substrate engineering of plasmonic nanocavity antenna modes. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:2345-2358. [PMID: 36785250 DOI: 10.1364/oe.476521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 12/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Plasmonic nanocavities have emerged as a promising platform for next-generation spectroscopy, sensing and photonic quantum information processing technologies, benefiting from a unique confluence of nanoscale compactness and integrability, ultrafast functionality and room-temperature viability. Harnessing their unprecedented optical field confinement and enhancement properties for such diverse application domains, however, demands continued innovation in cavity design and robust strategies for engineering their plasmonic mode characteristics, with the aim of optimizing spatial and spectral matching conditions for strong light-matter interaction involving embedded quantum emitters. Adopting the canonical gold bowtie nanoantenna, we show that the complex refractive index, n + ik, of the substrate material provides additional design flexibility in tailoring the properties of plasmonic nanocavity modes, including their resonance wavelengths, hotspot locations, intracavity field polarization and radiative decay rates. In particular, we predict that highly refractive (n ≥ 4) or highly absorptive (k ≥ 4) substrates provide two complementary approaches to engineering nanocavity modes that are especially desirable for coupling two-dimensional quantum materials, featuring namely an elevated hotspot with a dominantly in-plane polarized near-field, as well as a strongly radiative character. Our study elucidates the benefits and intricacies of a largely unexplored facet of nanocavity mode manipulation, beyond the widely practiced synthetic control over the cavity topology or physical dimensions, and paves the way for plasmonic cavity quantum electrodynamics with two-dimensional excitonic matter.
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Jang J, Jeong M, Lee J, Kim S, Yun H, Rho J. Planar Optical Cavities Hybridized with Low-Dimensional Light-Emitting Materials. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2203889. [PMID: 35861661 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202203889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Revised: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Low-dimensional light-emitting materials have been actively investigated due to their unprecedented optical and optoelectronic properties that are not observed in their bulk forms. However, the emission from low-dimensional light-emitting materials is generally weak and difficult to use in nanophotonic devices without being amplified and engineered by optical cavities. Along with studies on various planar optical cavities over the last decade, the physics of cavity-emitter interactions as well as various integration methods are investigated deeply. These integrations not only enhance the light-matter interaction of the emitters, but also provide opportunities for realizing nanophotonic devices based on the new physics allowed by low-dimensional emitters. In this review, the fundamentals, strengths and weaknesses of various planar optical resonators are first provided. Then, commonly used low-dimensional light-emitting materials such as 0D emitters (quantum dots and upconversion nanoparticles) and 2D emitters (transition-metal dichalcogenide and hexagonal boron nitride) are discussed. The integration of these emitters and cavities and the expect interplay between them are explained in the following chapters. Finally, a comprehensive discussion and outlook of nanoscale cavity-emitter integrated systems is provided.
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- Jaehyuck Jang
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
- POSCO-POSTECH-RIST Convergence Research Center for Flat Optics and Metaphotonics, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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Shi J, Lin Z, Zhu Z, Zhou J, Xu GQ, Xu QH. Probing Excitonic Rydberg States by Plasmon Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy in Monolayer WS 2 at Room Temperature. ACS NANO 2022; 16:15862-15872. [PMID: 36169603 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c02276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers such as WS2 are largely dominated by excitons due to strong Coulomb interactions in these 2D confined monolayers, which lead to formation of Rydberg-like excitonic states below the free quasiparticle band gap. The precise knowledge of high order Rydberg excitonic states is of great importance for both fundamental understanding such as many-electron effects and device applications such as optical switching and quantum process information. Bright excitonic states could be probed by linear optical spectroscopy, while probing dark excitonic states generally requires nonlinear optical (NLO) spectroscopy. Conventional optical methods for probing high-order Rydberg excitonic states were generally performed at cryogenic temperatures to ensure enough signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and narrow line width. Here we have designed a hybrid nanostructure of monolayer WS2 integrated with a plasmonic cavity and investigated their NLO properties at the single particle level. Giant enhancement in NLO responses, stronger excitonic resonance effects, and narrowed line widths of NLO excitation spectra were observed when monolayer WS2 was placed in our carefully designed plasmonic cavity. Optimum enhancement of 1000-, 3000-, and 3800-fold were achieved for two-photon photoluminescence (2PPL), second harmonic generation (SHG), and third-harmonic generation (THG), respectively, in the optimized cavity structure. The line width of SHG excitation spectra was reduced from 43 down to 15 meV. Plasmon enhanced NLO responses brought improved SNR and spectral resolution, which allowed us to distinguish discrete excitonic states with small energy differences at room temperature. By using three complementary NLO techniques in combination with linear optical spectroscopy, energies of Rydberg excitonic states of A (1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 4s), B (1s), and C and D excitons of monolayer WS2 have been accurately determined, which allow us to determine exciton binding energy and quasiparticle bandgap. It was interesting to find that the 2p lies 30 meV below 2s, which lends strong support to the theoretical prediction of nonlocal dielectric screening effects based on a non-hydrogenic model. Our results show that plasmon enhanced NLO spectroscopy could serve as a general method for probing high order Rydberg excitonic states of 2D materials.
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- Jia Shi
- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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- Key Lab of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurement (Ministry of Education), Beijing Key Lab of Nanophotonics & Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, and School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore
- National University of Singapore (Suzhou) Research Institute, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore
- National University of Singapore (Suzhou) Research Institute, Suzhou 215123, China
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Kiriya D, Lien DH. Superacid Treatment on Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. NANO EXPRESS 2022. [DOI: 10.1088/2632-959x/ac87c2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Superacids are strong acids with an acidity higher than pure sulfuric acid. Recently, superacid treatment of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) flakes, such as MoS2 and WS2, has shown a dramatic enhancement of optical properties, such as photoluminescence (PL) intensity. The superacid molecule is bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide (TFSI). In this review paper, we summarize and discuss the recent works and the current understanding of the TFSI treatment, and finally, we describe the outlook of the treatment on monolayer TMDCs.
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Gabinet UR, Lee C, Kim NK, Hulman M, Thompson SM, Kagan CR, Osuji CO. Magnetic Field Alignment and Optical Anisotropy of MoS 2 Nanosheets Dispersed in a Liquid Crystal Polymer. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:7994-8001. [PMID: 35984767 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanosheets exhibit anisotropic optical and electronic properties, stemming from their shape and electronic structure. Unveiling this anisotropy for study and usage in materials and devices requires the ability to control the orientation of dispersed nanosheets, but to date this has proved a challenging proposition. Here, we demonstrate magnetic field driven alignment of MoS2 nanosheets in a liquid crystal (LC) polymer and unveil the optical properties of the resulting anisotropic assembly. Nanosheet optical anisotropy is observed spectroscopically by Raman and direction-dependent photoluminescence (PL) measurements. Resulting data indicate significantly lower PL emission due to optical excitation with electric field oscillation out of plane, parallel to the MoS2 c-axis, than that associated with perpendicular excitation, with the dichroic ratio Iperp/Ipar = 3. The approach developed here provides a useful route to elucidate anisotropic optical properties of MoS2 nanosheets and to utilize such properties in new materials and devices.
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- Uri R Gabinet
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84104 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States
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Xu Y, Hu H, Chen W, Suo P, Zhang Y, Zhang S, Xu H. Phononic Cavity Optomechanics of Atomically Thin Crystal in Plasmonic Nanocavity. ACS NANO 2022; 16:12711-12719. [PMID: 35867404 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c04478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In the picture of molecular cavity optomechanics, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) can be understood as molecular oscillators parametrically coupled to plasmonic nanocavities supporting an extremely localized optical field. This enables SERS from conventional fingerprint detection toward quantum nanotechnologies associated with, e.g., frequency upconversion and optomechanically induced transparency. Here, we study a phononic cavity optomechanical system consisting of a monolayer MoS2 placed inside a plasmonic nanogap, where the coherent phonon-plasmon interaction involves the collective oscillation from tens of thousands of unit cells of the MoS2 crystal. We observe the selective nonlinear SERS enhancement of the system as determined by the laser-plasmon detuning, suggesting the dynamic backaction modification of the phonon populations. Anomalous superlinear power dependence of a second-order Raman-inactive phonon mode with respect to the first-order phonons is also observed, indicating the distinctive properties of the phononic nanodevice compared with the molecular system. Our results promote the development of robust phononic optomechanical nanocavities to further explore the related quantum correlation and nonlinear effects including parametric instabilities.
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- Yuhao Xu
- School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- The Institute for Advanced Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Physics, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland
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- School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Henan Key Laboratory of Diamond Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Key Laboratory of Material Physics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
- Wuhan Institute of Quantum Technology, Wuhan 430206, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
- Wuhan Institute of Quantum Technology, Wuhan 430206, China
- School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Wen BY, Wang JY, Shen TL, Zhu ZW, Guan PC, Lin JS, Peng W, Cai WW, Jin H, Xu QC, Yang ZL, Tian ZQ, Li JF. Manipulating the light-matter interactions in plasmonic nanocavities at 1 nm spatial resolution. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2022; 11:235. [PMID: 35882840 PMCID: PMC9325739 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-022-00918-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2022] [Revised: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The light-matter interaction between plasmonic nanocavity and exciton at the sub-diffraction limit is a central research field in nanophotonics. Here, we demonstrated the vertical distribution of the light-matter interactions at ~1 nm spatial resolution by coupling A excitons of MoS2 and gap-mode plasmonic nanocavities. Moreover, we observed the significant photoluminescence (PL) enhancement factor reaching up to 2800 times, which is attributed to the Purcell effect and large local density of states in gap-mode plasmonic nanocavities. Meanwhile, the theoretical calculations are well reproduced and support the experimental results.
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- Bao-Ying Wen
- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China.
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China.
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China.
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China.
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, 361005, China.
- College of Optical and Electronic Technology, Jiliang University, Hangzhou, 310018, China.
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Liu Y, Shen T, Linghu S, Zhu R, Gu F. Electrostatic control of photoluminescence from A and B excitons in monolayer molybdenum disulfide. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2022; 4:2484-2493. [PMID: 36134134 PMCID: PMC9419104 DOI: 10.1039/d2na00071g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Tailoring excitonic photoluminescence (PL) in molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is critical for its various applications. Although significant efforts have been devoted to enhancing the PL intensity of monolayer MoS2, simultaneous tailoring of emission from both A excitons and B excitons remains largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that both A-excitonic and B-excitonic PL of chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown monolayer MoS2 can be tuned by electrostatic doping in air. Our results indicate that the B-excitonic PL changed in the opposite direction compared to A-excitonic PL when a gate voltage (V g) was applied, both in S-rich and Mo-rich monolayer MoS2. Through the combination of gas adsorption and electrostatic doping, a 12-fold enhancement of the PL intensity for A excitons in Mo-rich monolayer MoS2 was achieved at V g = -40 V, and a 26-fold enhancement for the ratio of B/A excitonic PL was observed at V g = +40 V. Our results demonstrate not only the control of the conversion between A0 and A-, but also the modulation of intravalley and intervalley conversion between A excitons and B excitons. With electrostatic electron doping, the population of B excitons can be promoted due to the enhanced intravalley and intervalley transition process through electron-phonon coupling. The electrostatic control of excitonic PL has potential applications in exciton physics and valleytronics involving the B excitons.
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- Yuchun Liu
- School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology China
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- School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology China
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- School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology China
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- School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology China
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- School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology China
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Huang L, Zhu X, Hu G, Deng C, Sun Y, Wang D, Lu M, Yun B, Zhang R, Zhang Y, Cui Y. Electrical Switching of the Off-Resonance Room-Temperature Valley Polarization in Monolayer MoS 2 by a Double-Resonance Chiral Microstructure. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:22381-22388. [PMID: 35511437 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c03688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Enhancing and expanding the manipulated range of room-temperature valley polarization at off-resonance wavelength is extremely crucial to developing various functional valleytronic devices. Although these have been realized through the double-resonance strategy or twist-angle engineering, the demand for electrical control over the concepts remains elusive. Here, we fabricate a gate-tunable double-resonance chiral microstructure using a molybdenum disulfides (MoS2) monolayer. On the basis of the varied interface charge density, we demonstrate the huge photoluminescence (PL) tuning ability of this configuration. Furthermore, benefiting predominately from the screening of long-range e-h exchange interactions and the chiral Purcell effect, the electrical switching of the room-temperature valley polarization at off-resonance wavelength is also realized. Our work enriches the functions of TMDs-based optoelectronic devices and may create important applications in future valley-polarized encode and information processing devices.
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- Lei Huang
- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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You Q, Li Z, Li Y, Qiu L, Bi X, Zhang L, Zhang D, Fang Y, Wang P. Resonance Photoluminescence Enhancement of Monolayer MoS 2 via a Plasmonic Nanowire Dimer Optical Antenna. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:23756-23764. [PMID: 35575696 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c02684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as monolayer MoS2 exhibit remarkable optical properties. However, the intrinsic absorption and emission rates of MoS2 are very low, thus severely hindering its application in electronics and photonics. Combining MoS2 with a plasmonic optical antenna is an alternative solution to enhance the emission rates of the 2D semiconductor, and this can drastically increase the photoresponsivity of the corresponding photodetector. Herein, we have constructed a plasmonic gap cavity of a nanowire dimer (NWD) system as an optical antenna to brighten the emission of MoS2 off the hot spot. Different from the conventional enhancement concept which occurred in the plasmonic hot spot, the light emission off the nanogap hot spot was thoroughly investigated. We demonstrate that this new plasmonic optical nanostructure leads to a strong enhancement due to the Purcell effect. The NWD optical antenna can trap light to the near field through a high-efficiency plasmonic gap mode (PGM); then the PL emission was enhanced drastically up to 14.5-fold due to the resonance of the plasmonic gap mode (PGM) in the NWD with the excitonic band of monolayer MoS2. Theoretical simulations reveal that this NWD can alter the efficiency of convergence and excitation, which was consistent with our experimental results. This study can provide a pathway toward enhancing and controlling PGM-enhanced light emission of TMD materials beyond the plasmonic hot spot.
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- Qingzhang You
- The Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure, Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China
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- The Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure, Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China
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- The Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure, Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China
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- The Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure, Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China
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- The Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure, Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China
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- The Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure, Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China
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- The Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure, Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China
- Elementary Educational College, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China
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- The Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure, Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China
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- The Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure, Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China
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Li J, Liu J, Guo Z, Chang Z, Guo Y. Engineering Plasmonic Environments for 2D Materials and 2D-Based Photodetectors. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27092807. [PMID: 35566157 PMCID: PMC9100532 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27092807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2022] [Revised: 04/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Two-dimensional layered materials are considered ideal platforms to study novel small-scale optoelectronic devices due to their unique electronic structures and fantastic physical properties. However, it is urgent to further improve the light–matter interaction in these materials because their light absorption efficiency is limited by the atomically thin thickness. One of the promising approaches is to engineer the plasmonic environment around 2D materials for modulating light–matter interaction in 2D materials. This method greatly benefits from the advances in the development of nanofabrication and out-plane van der Waals interaction of 2D materials. In this paper, we review a series of recent works on 2D materials integrated with plasmonic environments, including the plasmonic-enhanced photoluminescence quantum yield, strong coupling between plasmons and excitons, nonlinear optics in plasmonic nanocavities, manipulation of chiral optical signals in hybrid nanostructures, and the improvement of the performance of optoelectronic devices based on composite systems.
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- Jianmei Li
- State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (J.L.); (Z.G.); (Z.C.)
- Correspondence: (J.L.); (Y.G.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (J.L.); (Z.G.); (Z.C.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (J.L.); (Z.G.); (Z.C.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (J.L.); (Z.G.); (Z.C.)
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Vacuum Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- Correspondence: (J.L.); (Y.G.)
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Hinamoto T, Lee YS, Dereshgi SA, DiStefano JG, Dos Reis R, Sugimoto H, Aydin K, Fujii M, Dravid VP. Resonance Couplings in Si@MoS 2 Core-Shell Architectures. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2022; 18:e2200413. [PMID: 35304967 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202200413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Revised: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides and optical cavities that can couple to each other are rising candidates for advanced quantum optics and electronics. This is due to their enhanced light-matter interactions in the visible to near-infrared range. Core-shell structures are particularly valuable for their maximized interfacial area. Here, the chemical vapor deposition synthesis of Si@MoS2 core-shells and extensive structural characterization are presented. Compared with traditional plasmonic cores, the silicon dielectric Mie resonator core offers low Ohmic losses and a wider spectrum of optical modes. The magnetic dipole (MD) mode of the silicon core efficiently couples with MoS2 through its large tangential component at the core surface. Using transmission electron microscopy and correlative single-particle scattering spectroscopy, MD mode splitting is experimentally demonstrated in this unique Si@MoS2 core-shell structure. This is evidence for resonance coupling, which is limited to theoretical proposals in this particular system. A coupling constant of 39 meV is achieved, which is ≈1.5-fold higher than previous reports of particle-on-film geometries with a smaller interfacial area. Finally, higher-order systems with the potential to tune properties are demonstrated through a dimer system of Si@MoS2 , forming the basis for emerging architectures for optoelectronic and nanophotonic applications.
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- Tatsuki Hinamoto
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Rokkodai Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization Experimental (NUANCE) Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Rokkodai Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Rokkodai Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization Experimental (NUANCE) Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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Huang L, Krasnok A, Alú A, Yu Y, Neshev D, Miroshnichenko AE. Enhanced light-matter interaction in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2022; 85:046401. [PMID: 34939940 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac45f9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials, such as MoS2, WS2, MoSe2, and WSe2, have received extensive attention in the past decade due to their extraordinary electronic, optical and thermal properties. They evolve from indirect bandgap semiconductors to direct bandgap semiconductors while their layer number is reduced from a few layers to a monolayer limit. Consequently, there is strong photoluminescence in a monolayer (1L) TMDC due to the large quantum yield. Moreover, such monolayer semiconductors have two other exciting properties: large binding energy of excitons and valley polarization. These properties make them become ideal materials for various electronic, photonic and optoelectronic devices. However, their performance is limited by the relatively weak light-matter interactions due to their atomically thin form factor. Resonant nanophotonic structures provide a viable way to address this issue and enhance light-matter interactions in 2D TMDCs. Here, we provide an overview of this research area, showcasing relevant applications, including exotic light emission, absorption and scattering features. We start by overviewing the concept of excitons in 1L-TMDC and the fundamental theory of cavity-enhanced emission, followed by a discussion on the recent progress of enhanced light emission, strong coupling and valleytronics. The atomically thin nature of 1L-TMDC enables a broad range of ways to tune its electric and optical properties. Thus, we continue by reviewing advances in TMDC-based tunable photonic devices. Next, we survey the recent progress in enhanced light absorption over narrow and broad bandwidths using 1L or few-layer TMDCs, and their applications for photovoltaics and photodetectors. We also review recent efforts of engineering light scattering, e.g., inducing Fano resonances, wavefront engineering in 1L or few-layer TMDCs by either integrating resonant structures, such as plasmonic/Mie resonant metasurfaces, or directly patterning monolayer/few layers TMDCs. We then overview the intriguing physical properties of different van der Waals heterostructures, and their applications in optoelectronic and photonic devices. Finally, we draw our opinion on potential opportunities and challenges in this rapidly developing field of research.
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- Lujun Huang
- School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT, 2600, Australia
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, United States of America
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- Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, United States of America
- Physics Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, United States of America
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States of America
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT, 2600, Australia
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Mendelson N, Ritika R, Kianinia M, Scott J, Kim S, Fröch JE, Gazzana C, Westerhausen M, Xiao L, Mohajerani SS, Strauf S, Toth M, Aharonovich I, Xu ZQ. Coupling Spin Defects in a Layered Material to Nanoscale Plasmonic Cavities. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2106046. [PMID: 34601757 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202106046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride, and specifically the negatively charged boron vacancy (VB - ) centers, are emerging candidates for quantum sensing. However, the VB - defects suffer from low quantum efficiency and, as a result, exhibit weak photoluminescence. In this work, a scalable approach is demonstrated to dramatically enhance the VB - emission by coupling to a plasmonic gap cavity. The plasmonic cavity is composed of a flat gold surface and a silver cube, with few-layer hBN flakes positioned in between. Employing these plasmonic cavities, two orders of magnitude are extracted in photoluminescence enhancement associated with a corresponding twofold enhancement in optically detected magnetic resonance contrast. The work will be pivotal to progress in quantum sensing employing 2D materials, and in realization of nanophotonic devices with spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride.
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- Noah Mendelson
- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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- Department of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA
- Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA
- Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA
- Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA
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- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, 2007, Australia
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Zhang J, Tebyetekerwa M, Nguyen HT. Interfacing transition metal dichalcogenides with chromium germanium telluride quantum dots for controllable light-matter interactions. J Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 611:432-440. [PMID: 34968962 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.12.131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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In this work, we unravel a facile solution-based method to prepare chromium germanium telluride, Cr2Ge2Te6 (CGT) quantum dots (QDs), which present strong light-matter interactions with monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in their CGT/TMD vertical heterostructures. The heterostructures' optoelectronic properties were controlled by simply varying the QDs thickness. We observed contrasting emissions from monolayer TMDs in the various CGT QDs-TMDs (of WS2, WSe2 and MoS2) heterostructures depending on the density of QDs in the heterostructures. Low-density CGT QDs-based heterostructures demonstrated a reduced light emission intensity compared to the isolated monolayers, but with an increased trion ratio due to the electron doping effect of CGT QDs. In contrast, high-density CGT QDs-based heterostructures showed an increased light emission intensity and a broadened, red-shifted emission peak in comparison to the bare TMDs, attributed to the enhanced optical absorption in the heterostructures arising from the assembled CGT QDs. Finally, proof-of-concept field-effect transistor (FET) and photodetector devices based on the created CGT QDs-WS2 heterostructures were designed, which showed an enhanced optoelectronic performance.
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- Jian Zhang
- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australia National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia.
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- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australia National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia.
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Garai M, Zhu Z, Shi J, Li S, Xu QH. Single-particle studies on plasmon enhanced photoluminescence of monolayer MoS 2 by gold nanoparticles of different shapes. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:234201. [PMID: 34937371 DOI: 10.1063/5.0073754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Plasmon-exciton interactions between noble metal nanostructures and two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides have drawn great interest due to their significantly enhanced optical properties. Plasmon resonance of noble metal nanoparticles and plasmon-exciton interactions are strongly dependent on the particle morphology. Single-particle spectroscopic studies can overcome the ensemble average effects of sample inhomogeneity to unambiguously reveal the effects of the particle morphology. In this work, plasmon modulated emission of MoS2 in various plasmon-MoS2 hybrid structures has been studied on the single-particle level. Gold (Au) nanoantennas of different shapes including nanosphere, nanorod, nanocube, and nanotriangle with similar overall dimensions, which have different sharp tips and contact areas with MoS2, have been chosen to explore the particle shape effects. Different extent of enhancement in photoluminescence (PL) of MoS2 was observed for Au nanoantennas of different shapes. It was found that Au nanotriangles gave the highest enhancement factor, while Au nanospheres gave the lowest enhancement factor. The numerical simulation results show that the dominant contribution arises from an increased quantum yield, while enhanced excitation efficiency just plays a minor role. The quantum yield enhancement is affected by both the sharp tips and contact mode of the Au nanoantenna with MoS2. Polarization of the MoS2 emission was also found to be modulated by the plasmon mode of the Au nanoantenna. These single-particle spectroscopic studies allow us to unambiguously reveal the effects of the particle morphology on plasmon enhanced PL in these nanohybrids to provide a better understanding of the plasmon-exciton interactions.
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- Monalisa Garai
- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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- Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117551
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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Lee J, Jeon DJ, Yeo JS. Quantum Plasmonics: Energy Transport Through Plasmonic Gap. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2021; 33:e2006606. [PMID: 33891781 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202006606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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At the interfaces of metal and dielectric materials, strong light-matter interactions excite surface plasmons; this allows electromagnetic field confinement and enhancement on the sub-wavelength scale. Such phenomena have attracted considerable interest in the field of exotic material-based nanophotonic research, with potential applications including nonlinear spectroscopies, information processing, single-molecule sensing, organic-molecule devices, and plasmon chemistry. These innovative plasmonics-based technologies can meet the ever-increasing demands for speed and capacity in nanoscale devices, offering ultrasensitive detection capabilities and low-power operations. Size scaling from the nanometer to sub-nanometer ranges is consistently researched; as a result, the quantum behavior of localized surface plasmons, as well as those of matter, nonlocality, and quantum electron tunneling is investigated using an innovative nanofabrication and chemical functionalization approach, thereby opening a new era of quantum plasmonics. This new field enables the ultimate miniaturization of photonic components and provides extreme limits on light-matter interactions, permitting energy transport across the extremely small plasmonic gap. In this review, a comprehensive overview of the recent developments of quantum plasmonic resonators with particular focus on novel materials is presented. By exploring the novel gap materials in quantum regime, the potential quantum technology applications are also searched for and mapped out.
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- Jihye Lee
- School of Integrated Technology, Yonsei University, Incheon, 21983, Republic of Korea
- Yonsei Institute of Convergence Technology, Yonsei University, Incheon, 21983, Republic of Korea
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- School of Integrated Technology, Yonsei University, Incheon, 21983, Republic of Korea
- Yonsei Institute of Convergence Technology, Yonsei University, Incheon, 21983, Republic of Korea
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- School of Integrated Technology, Yonsei University, Incheon, 21983, Republic of Korea
- Yonsei Institute of Convergence Technology, Yonsei University, Incheon, 21983, Republic of Korea
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Kim JM, Lee C, Lee Y, Lee J, Park SJ, Park S, Nam JM. Synthesis, Assembly, Optical Properties, and Sensing Applications of Plasmonic Gap Nanostructures. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2021; 33:e2006966. [PMID: 34013617 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202006966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2020] [Revised: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Plasmonic gap nanostructures (PGNs) have been extensively investigated mainly because of their strongly enhanced optical responses, which stem from the high intensity of the localized field in the nanogap. The recently developed methods for the preparation of versatile nanogap structures open new avenues for the exploration of unprecedented optical properties and development of sensing applications relying on the amplification of various optical signals. However, the reproducible and controlled preparation of highly uniform plasmonic nanogaps and the prediction, understanding, and control of their optical properties, especially for nanogaps in the nanometer or sub-nanometer range, remain challenging. This is because subtle changes in the nanogap significantly affect the plasmonic response and are of paramount importance to the desired optical performance and further applications. Here, recent advances in the synthesis, assembly, and fabrication strategies, prediction and control of optical properties, and sensing applications of PGNs are discussed, and perspectives toward addressing these challenging issues and the future research directions are presented.
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- Jae-Myoung Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 03760, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea
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Gritsienko AV, Kurochkin NS, Lega PV, Orlov AP, Ilin AS, Eliseev SP, Vitukhnovsky AG. Hybrid cube-in-cup nanoantenna: towards ordered photonics. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2021; 33:015201. [PMID: 34592729 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac2bc3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The most significant goal of nanophotonics is the development of high-speed quantum emitting devices operating at ambient temperature. In this regard, plasmonic nanoparticles-on-mirror are potential candidates for designing high-speed photon sources. We introduce a novel hybrid nanoantenna (HNA) with CdSe/CdS colloidal quantum dots (QDs) based on a silver nanocube in a metal cup that presents a nanoparticle-in-cavity coupled with an emitters system. We use focused ion beam nanolithography to fabricate an ordered array of cups, which were then filled with colloidal nanoparticles using the most simple drop-casting and spin coating methods. The spectral and time-resolved studies of the samples with one or more nanocubes in the cup reveal a significant change in the radiation characteristics of QDs inside the nanoantenna. The Purcell effect causes an increase in the fluorescence decay rate (≥30) and an increase in the fluorescence intensity (≥3) of emitters in the HNA. Using the finite element method simulations, we have discovered that the proximity of the cups wall affects the oscillation modes of the gap plasmon, which, in turn, leads to changes in the electric field enhancement inside the nanoantenna gap. Additionally, substantial variations in the behavior of the gap plasmons at different polarizations of the exciting radiation have been revealed. The proposed nanoantenna can be useful in the development of plasmonic sensors, display pixels, and single-photon sources.
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- A V Gritsienko
- P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 53 Leninskiy Pr., 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 53 Leninskiy Pr., 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Mokhovaya Str. 11, Build 7, 125009 Moscow, Russia
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- Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Mokhovaya Str. 11, Build 7, 125009 Moscow, Russia
- Institute of Nanotechnology of Microelectronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nagatinskaya Str. 16A, build 11, 115487 Moscow, Russia
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- Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Mokhovaya Str. 11, Build 7, 125009 Moscow, Russia
- National Research University Higher School of Economics, 101000 Moscow, Russia
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- P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 53 Leninskiy Pr., 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 53 Leninskiy Pr., 119991 Moscow, Russia
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), 9 Institutskií Per., 141700 Dolgoprudnyí, Moscow Region, Russia
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Han X, Wang K, Jiang Y, Xing X, Li S, Hu H, Liu W, Wang B, Lu P. Controllable Plexcitonic Coupling in a WS 2-Ag Nanocavity with Solvents. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:43554-43561. [PMID: 34465088 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c10295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Strong coupling between emitters and cavities underlies many of the current strategies aiming at generating and controlling quantum states at room temperature. Recent experiments reveal strong coupling between two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and individual plasmonic structures; however, the coupling strength is quite limited (<200 meV), and the active control of the coupling strength is challenging. Here, we demonstrate the active tuning of plexcitonic coupling in monolayer WS2 coupled to a plasmonic nanocavity by immersing into a mixed solution of dichloromethane (DCM) and ethanol. By adjusting the mixture ratio, continuous tuning of the Rabi splitting energy ranged from 183 meV (in ethanol) to 273 meV (in DCM) is achieved. The results are mainly attributed to the remarkable increase of the neutral exciton density in monolayer WS2 as the concentration of DCM is increased. It offers an important stepping stone toward a further study on plexcitonic coupling in layered materials, along with potential applications in quantum information processing and nonlinear optical materials.
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- Xiaobo Han
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Optical Information and Pattern Recognition, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Optical Information and Pattern Recognition, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Optical Information and Pattern Recognition, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
- Guangdong Intelligent Robotics Institute, Dongguan 523808, China
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Kim H, Moon S, Kim J, Nam SH, Kim DH, Lee JS, Kim KH, Kang ESH, Ahn KJ, Kim T, Shin C, Suh YD. Purcell-enhanced photoluminescence of few-layer MoS 2 transferred on gold nanostructure arrays with plasmonic resonance at the conduction band edge. NANOSCALE 2021; 13:5316-5323. [PMID: 33656502 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr08158b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Plasmonic coupling of metallic nanostructures with two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) atomic layers is an important topic because it provides a pathway to manipulate the optoelectronic properties and to overcome the limited optical cross-section of the materials. Plasmonic enhanced light-matter interaction of a MoS2 layer is known to be mainly governed by optical field enhancement and the Purcell effect, while the discrimination of the contribution from each mechanism to the plasmonic enhancement is challenging. Here, we investigate photoluminescence (PL) enhancement from few-layer MoS2 transferred on Au nanostructure arrays with controlled localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectral positions that were detuned from the excitation wavelengths. Two distinctive regimes in LSPR mode-dependent PL enhancement were revealed showing a maximum enhancement (∼40-fold) with zero detuning and a modest enhancement (∼10-fold) with the red-shift detuned LSPR from the excitation wavelength, which were attributed to LSPR-induced optical field enhancement and the Purcell effect, respectively. By applying the experimental parameters into the Purcell effect formalism, an effective mode volume of ∼0.016λ03 was estimated. Our work provides an insight into how to utilize few-layer MoS2 as a base material for optoelectronics by harnessing Purcell-enhanced optical responsivity.
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- Hyunwoo Kim
- Laboratory for Advanced Molecular Probing (LAMP), Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, South Korea.
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, South Korea.
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- Center for Convergent Research of Emerging Virus Infection, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, South Korea
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- Laboratory for Advanced Molecular Probing (LAMP), Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, South Korea.
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, South Korea.
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- Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28644, South Korea
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- Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28644, South Korea
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- Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28644, South Korea
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- Department of Energy Systems Research/Department of Physics, Ajou University, Suwon-si, 16499, South Korea
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Smart Grid Research Center, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea.
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- Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, South Korea.
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- Laboratory for Advanced Molecular Probing (LAMP), Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, South Korea. and School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea
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Noor A, Damodaran AR, Lee IH, Maier SA, Oh SH, Ciracì C. Mode-Matching Enhancement of Second-Harmonic Generation with Plasmonic Nanopatch Antennas. ACS PHOTONICS 2020; 7:3333-3340. [PMID: 33365359 PMCID: PMC7747867 DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Plasmonic enhancement of nonlinear optical processes confront severe limitations arising from the strong dispersion of metal susceptibilities and small interaction volumes that hamper the realization of desirable phase-matching-like conditions. Maximizing nonlinear interactions in nanoscale systems require simultaneous excitation of resonant modes that spatially and constructively overlap at all wavelengths involved in the process. Here, we present a hybrid rectangular patch antenna design for optimal second-harmonic generation (SHG) that is characterized by a non-centrosymmetric dielectric/ferroelectric material at the plasmonic hot spot. The optimization of the rectangular patch allows for the independent tuning of various modes of resonances that can be used to enhance the SHG process. We explore the angular dependence of SHG in these hybrid structures and highlight conditions necessary for the maximal SHG efficiency. Furthermore, we propose a novel configuration with a periodically poled ferroelectric layer for an orders-of-magnitude enhanced SHG at normal incidence. Such a platform may enable the development of integrated nanoscale light sources and on-chip frequency converters.
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- Ahsan Noor
- Center
for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, Istituto
Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Barsanti 14, Arnesano 73010, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, Via Re David 200, Bari 70125, Italy
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
- (A.R.D.)
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
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- Chair
in Hybrid Nanosystems, Nanoinstitut Munich, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Königinstrasse 10, München 80539, Germany
- Experimental
Solid State Physics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
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- Center
for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, Istituto
Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Barsanti 14, Arnesano 73010, Italy
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Yang Y, Pan R, Tian S, Gu C, Li J. Plasmonic Hybrids of MoS 2 and 10-nm Nanogap Arrays for Photoluminescence Enhancement. MICROMACHINES 2020; 11:mi11121109. [PMID: 33333895 PMCID: PMC7765256 DOI: 10.3390/mi11121109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2020] [Revised: 12/07/2020] [Accepted: 12/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Monolayer MoS2 has attracted tremendous interest, in recent years, due to its novel physical properties and applications in optoelectronic and photonic devices. However, the nature of the atomic-thin thickness of monolayer MoS2 limits its optical absorption and emission, thereby hindering its optoelectronic applications. Hybridizing MoS2 by plasmonic nanostructures is a critical route to enhance its photoluminescence. In this work, the hybrid nanostructure has been proposed by transferring the monolayer MoS2 onto the surface of 10-nm-wide gold nanogap arrays fabricated using the shadow deposition method. By taking advantage of the localized surface plasmon resonance arising in the nanogaps, a photoluminescence enhancement of ~20-fold was achieved through adjusting the length of nanogaps. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of a giant photoluminescence enhancement for this hybrid of MoS2/10-nm nanogap arrays, promising its further applications in photodetectors, sensors, and emitters.
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- Yang Yang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China; (Y.Y.); (R.P.); (S.T.); (C.G.)
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China; (Y.Y.); (R.P.); (S.T.); (C.G.)
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China; (Y.Y.); (R.P.); (S.T.); (C.G.)
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China; (Y.Y.); (R.P.); (S.T.); (C.G.)
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China; (Y.Y.); (R.P.); (S.T.); (C.G.)
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
- Correspondence:
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Huang L, Su H, Hu G, Wu S, Wang Y, Chen B, Wang Q, Deng C, Yun B, Zhang R, Cui Y. Highly efficient and controllable photoluminescence emission on a suspended MoS 2-based plasmonic grating. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2020; 31:505201. [PMID: 32996469 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/abb1ea] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Being a new class of materials, transition metal dichalcogenides are paving the way for applications in atomically thin optoelectronics. However, the intrinsically weak light-matter interaction and the lack of manipulation ability has lead to poor light emission and tunable behavior. Here, we investigate the fluorescence characteristic of monolayer molybdenum disulfide on a metal narrow-slit grating, where a highly efficient, 471 times photoluminescence enhancement are realized, based on the hybrid surface plasmon polaritons resonances and the decreased influence of substrate. Moreover, the emitted intensity and polarization are controllable due to the polarization-dependent characteristic and anisotropy of grating. The manipulations of light-matter interactions in this special system provide a new insight into the fluorescent emission process and open a new avenue for high-performance low dimensional materials devices designs.
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- Lei Huang
- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096 People's Republic of China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 People's Republic of China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096 People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Informatics of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang 236037 People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189 People's Republic of China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096 People's Republic of China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 People's Republic of China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096 People's Republic of China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096 People's Republic of China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096 People's Republic of China
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- Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096 People's Republic of China
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Sarkar AS, Konidakis I, Demeridou I, Serpetzoglou E, Kioseoglou G, Stratakis E. Robust B-exciton emission at room temperature in few-layers of MoS 2:Ag nanoheterojunctions embedded into a glass matrix. Sci Rep 2020; 10:15697. [PMID: 32973224 PMCID: PMC7518262 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72899-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Tailoring the photoluminescence (PL) properties in two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) crystals using external factors is critical for its use in valleytronic, nanophotonic and optoelectronic applications. Although significant effort has been devoted towards enhancing or manipulating the excitonic emission in MoS2 monolayers, the excitonic emission in few-layers MoS2 has been largely unexplored. Here, we put forward a novel nano-heterojunction system, prepared with a non-lithographic process, to enhance and control such emission. It is based on the incorporation of few-layers MoS2 into a plasmonic silver metaphosphate glass (AgPO3) matrix. It is shown that, apart from the enhancement of the emission of both A- and B-excitons, the B-excitonic emission dominates the PL intensity. In particular, we observe an almost six-fold enhancement of the B-exciton emission, compared to control MoS2 samples. This enhanced PL at room temperature is attributed to an enhanced exciton-plasmon coupling and it is supported by ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy that reveals plasmon-enhanced electron transfer that takes place in Ag nanoparticles-MoS2 nanoheterojunctions. Our results provide a great avenue to tailor the emission properties of few-layers MoS2, which could find application in emerging valleytronic devices working with B excitons.
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- Abdus Salam Sarkar
- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 700 13, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
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- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 700 13, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 700 13, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Physics Department, University of Crete, 710 03, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 700 13, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Physics Department, University of Crete, 710 03, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 700 13, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, 710 03, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 700 13, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
- Physics Department, University of Crete, 710 03, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
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Kim JH, Lee HS, An GH, Lee J, Oh HM, Choi J, Lee YH. Dielectric Nanowire Hybrids for Plasmon-Enhanced Light-Matter Interaction in 2D Semiconductors. ACS NANO 2020; 14:11985-11994. [PMID: 32840363 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with a direct band gap are suitable for various optoelectronic applications such as ultrathin light emitters and absorbers. However, their weak light absorption caused by the atomically thin layer hinders more versatile applications for high optical gains. Although plasmonic hybridization with metal nanostructures significantly enhances light-matter interactions, the corrosion, instability of the metal nanostructures, and the undesired effects of direct metal-semiconductor contact act as obstacles to its practical application. Herein, we propose a dielectric nanostructure for plasmon-enhanced light-matter interaction of TMDs. TiO2 nanowires (NWs), as an example, are hybridized with a MoS2 monolayer on various substrates. The structure is implemented by placing a monolayer MoS2 between a TiO2 NW for a photonic scattering effect and metallic substrates with a spacer for the plasmonic Purcell effect. Here, the thin dielectric spacer is aimed at minimizing emission quenching from direct metal contact, while maximizing optical field localization in ultrathin MoS2 near the TiO2 NW. An effective emission enhancement factor of ∼22 is attained for MoS2 near the NW of the hybrid structure compared to the one without NWs. Our work is expected to facilitate a hybridized platform based on 2D semiconductors for high-performance and robust optoelectronics via engineering dielectric nanostructures with plasmonic materials.
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- Jung Ho Kim
- Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
- Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics, Research Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics, Research Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
- Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
- Department of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
- Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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Sun J, Hu H, Pan D, Zhang S, Xu H. Selectively Depopulating Valley-Polarized Excitons in Monolayer MoS 2 by Local Chirality in Single Plasmonic Nanocavity. NANO LETTERS 2020; 20:4953-4959. [PMID: 32578993 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Transition metal dichalcogenides, whose valley degrees of freedom are characterized by the degree of circular polarization (DCP) of the photoluminescence, draw broad interests due to their potential applications in information storage and processing. However, this DCP is usually low at room temperature due to the phonon-assisted intervalley scattering, severely degrading the fidelity of the valley-stored signals. Therefore, achieving high DCP at room temperature is vital for valley-encoded nanophotonic devices. In this work, we demonstrate a high DCP of 48.7% at room temperature by embedding monolayer MoS2 into a compact plasmonic nanocavity. Such a high DCP is proven to originate from the prominent chiral Purcell effect owing to the degeneracy-lifted circularly polarized local density of states in the nanocavity. In addition, the DCP can be further manipulated by an in situ plasmon-scanned technique. This highly compact system provides possibilities for developing versatile valley-encoded light-emitting devices at room temperature.
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- Jiawei Sun
- The Institute for Advanced Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- The Institute for Advanced Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- The Institute for Advanced Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
- School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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A Fano resonance is experimentally observed in a single silver nanocube separated from a supporting silver film by a thin aluminum oxide film. The resonance spectrum is modulated by changing the size of the silver nanocube and its distance from the silver film. The system is fabricated by a bottom-up process with an accurately controlled nanogap at the sub-6-nm scale. The simulation result shows that the destructive interference between the dipole mode and the quadrupole mode in this “nanocube on mirror” (NCoM) structure is responsible for the resonance. The spectra red-shifted as the size of the silver nanocube increased and its distance from the silver film decreased. In addition, a refractive index sensitivity of the spectrum of 140 meV/RIU (refractive index unit), with a 2.4 figure of merit, is obtained by changing the dielectric environment around the silver nanocube. This work will enable the development of high-performance tunable optical nanodevices based on NCoM structures.
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Schneider LM, Esdaille SS, Rhodes DA, Barmak K, Hone JC, Rahimi-Iman A. Shedding light on exciton's nature in monolayer quantum material by optical dispersion measurements. OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 27:37131-37149. [PMID: 31878499 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.037131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 11/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Strong light-matter interactions based on two-dimensional excitons formed in quantum materials such as monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides have become a major subject of research in recent years. Particularly attractive is the extraordinarily large oscillator strength as well as binding energy of the excitonic quasiparticles in these atomically-thin crystal lattices. Numerous theoretical studies and experiments have been devoted to the exploration of the excitonic systems that could be exploited in future nano-scaled optoelectronic devices. To obtain unique insight into the exciton's characteristics in an archetype monolayer quantum material, we directly measure the quasiparticle energy-momentum dispersion for the first time optically. Our results for h-BN encapsulated single-layer WSe2 clearly indicate an emission regime with a dispersion in the meV range in within the light cone at cryogenic temperatures. The amount of dispersion agrees well with calculations for an exciton-polariton based on the material's monolayer exciton, or energetic modifications caused by exciton exchange interactions predicted for this material family. The measurable dispersion slightly weakens for elevated excitation densities, whereas at elevated temperatures, it even becomes immeasurable. The obtained reduction in dispersion is attributed to an enhanced role of uncorrelated charge carriers as well as the formation of phonon sidebands above 100 K.
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Takeshima N, Sugawa K, Tahara H, Jin S, Wakui H, Fukushima M, Tokuda K, Igari S, Kanakubo K, Hayakawa Y, Katoh R, Takase K, Otsuki J. Plasmonic Silver Nanoprism-Induced Emissive Mode Control between Fluorescence and Phosphorescence of a Phosphorescent Palladium Porphyrin Derivative. ACS NANO 2019; 13:13244-13256. [PMID: 31633926 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b06269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We have succeeded in significantly enhancing fluorescence from intrinsically phosphorescent palladium octaethylporphyrin (Pd-porphyrin) that has an intersystem crossing efficiency of ∼1 by using silver nanoprisms (AgPRs). This was achieved by controlling the wavelength of the localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonance of AgPRs and the distance between the Pd-porphyrin molecules and the AgPR surfaces. In addition to enhancing phosphorescence by spectrally overlapping the phosphorescence band with the LSP resonance band, tuning the LSP wavelength to approximately 520 nm led to the appearance of a new emission band around the wavelength corresponding to the fluorescent radiation. The appearance of fluorescence suggests that the nonradiative energy transfer from the singlet excited state of Pd-porphyrin to the LSP of AgPRs overcame the ultrafast intramolecular intersystem crossing to the triplet excited state, manifesting the spectral properties of the singlet excited state of Pd-porphyrin. The fluorescence nature of this radiation was strongly supported by lifetime measurements of the hybrids of Pd-porphyrin and AgPRs. Furthermore, the dependence of the emissive intensities on the distance between the Pd-porphyrin molecules and the AgPR surfaces showed interesting opposite trends. The fluorescence intensity was increased as the distance between the molecules and the AgPRs was decreased from 10.5 to 1 nm, while the phosphorescence intensity was decreased, which indicates that the LSP-induced fluorescence radiation process from Pd-porphyrin near the AgPRs outweighed the quenching by the AgPRs, even though the phosphorescence significantly suffered quenching.
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- Naoto Takeshima
- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science and Technology , Nihon University , Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo 101-8308 , Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science and Technology , Nihon University , Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo 101-8308 , Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering , Nagasaki University , Bunkyo, Nagasaki 852-8521 , Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science and Technology , Nihon University , Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo 101-8308 , Japan
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Applied Chemistry, College of Engineering , Nihon University , Koriyama , Fukushima 963-8642 , Japan
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Applied Chemistry, College of Engineering , Nihon University , Koriyama , Fukushima 963-8642 , Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science and Technology , Nihon University , Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo 101-8308 , Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science and Technology , Nihon University , Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo 101-8308 , Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science and Technology , Nihon University , Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo 101-8308 , Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science and Technology , Nihon University , Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo 101-8308 , Japan
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Applied Chemistry, College of Engineering , Nihon University , Koriyama , Fukushima 963-8642 , Japan
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- Department of Physics, College of Science and Technology , Nihon University , Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo 101-0062 , Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science and Technology , Nihon University , Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo 101-8308 , Japan
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Hu A, Zhang W, Liu S, Wen T, Zhao J, Gong Q, Ye Y, Lu G. In situ scattering of single gold nanorod coupling with monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:20734-20740. [PMID: 31650146 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr06152e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We investigated in situ the interaction between a single gold nanorod and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) by atomic force microscopy nanomanipulation and single-particle spectroscopy. We observed that the resonant scattering peak of the hybrid redshifted, the full width at half maximum of the scattering resonance narrowed and the scattering intensity increased compared with those of the same nanorod before coupling with monolayer TMDCs. These results were understood with the aid of finite-difference time-domain simulations, the Fano model, and the classical oscillator model. Also, the spectral features varied with the distance between the nanorod and TMDCs, and the interaction was mainly attributed to the resonant energy transfer effect. Our findings clarify the influence of TMDCs on the plasmonic resonance and contribute to a deeper understanding of the plasmon exciton interaction. These results are beneficial for the optimization of plasmonic nanostructure-TMDC hybrids and their corresponding applications.
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- Aiqin Hu
- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. and Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. and Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. and Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. and Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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Zhang Y, Chen W, Fu T, Sun J, Zhang D, Li Y, Zhang S, Xu H. Simultaneous Surface-Enhanced Resonant Raman and Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Monolayer MoSe 2: Determination of Ultrafast Decay Rates in Nanometer Dimension. NANO LETTERS 2019; 19:6284-6291. [PMID: 31430168 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The fact that metallic nanostructures are an excellent light receiver and transmitter connects the underlying principles of two widely applied optical processes: surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and surface-enhanced fluorescence (SEF). A comparative study of SERS and SEF can eliminate the typical unknown quantities of the system and reveal important parameters that cannot be accessed by conventional techniques. Here, we use this simultaneous SERS and SEF technique in a monolayer MoSe2 coupled plasmonic nanocavity. After optimizing the spatial and the spectral overlaps between excitonic and plasmonic resonances, the SERS and SEF enhancement factors can exceed 107 and 6000, respectively, at the same time on the same nanocube. The comparison of the SERS and SEF enhancements allows the estimation of the ultrafast total decay rate of the bright exciton in monolayer MoSe2 in the nanocavity down to tens of femtoseconds, which is otherwise hard to realize using time-resolved techniques.
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Wang M, Wu Z, Krasnok A, Zhang T, Liu M, Liu H, Scarabelli L, Fang J, Liz-Marzán LM, Terrones M, Alù A, Zheng Y. Dark-Exciton-Mediated Fano Resonance from a Single Gold Nanostructure on Monolayer WS 2 at Room Temperature. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2019; 15:e1900982. [PMID: 31183956 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201900982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2019] [Revised: 05/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Strong spatial confinement and highly reduced dielectric screening provide monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides with strong many-body effects, thereby possessing optically forbidden excitonic states (i.e., dark excitons) at room temperature. Herein, the interaction of surface plasmons with dark excitons in hybrid systems consisting of stacked gold nanotriangles and monolayer WS2 is explored. A narrow Fano resonance is observed when the hybrid system is surrounded by water, and the narrowing of the spectral Fano linewidth is attributed to the plasmon-enhanced decay of dark K-K excitons. These results reveal that dark excitons in monolayer WS2 can strongly modify Fano resonances in hybrid plasmon-exciton systems and can be harnessed for novel optical sensors and active nanophotonic devices.
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- Mingsong Wang
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, Physics Program, Graduate Center, Department of Electrical Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry, Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry, Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry, Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Bionanoplasmonics Laboratory, CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013, Bilbao, Spain
- Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering Biomaterials, and Nanomedicine, CIBER-BBN, 20014, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry, Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, Physics Program, Graduate Center, Department of Electrical Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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Baumberg JJ, Aizpurua J, Mikkelsen MH, Smith DR. Extreme nanophotonics from ultrathin metallic gaps. NATURE MATERIALS 2019; 18:668-678. [PMID: 30936482 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0290-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Ultrathin dielectric gaps between metals can trap plasmonic optical modes with surprisingly low loss and with volumes below 1 nm3. We review the origin and subtle properties of these modes, and show how they can be well accounted for by simple models. Particularly important is the mixing between radiating antennas and confined nanogap modes, which is extremely sensitive to precise nanogeometry, right down to the single-atom level. Coupling nanogap plasmons to electronic and vibronic transitions yields a host of phenomena including single-molecule strong coupling and molecular optomechanics, opening access to atomic-scale chemistry and materials science, as well as quantum metamaterials. Ultimate low-energy devices such as robust bottom-up assembled single-atom switches are thus in prospect.
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- Jeremy J Baumberg
- NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Materials Physics Center CSIC-UPV/EHU and Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, Donostia-San Sebastiàn, Spain
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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Lepeshov S, Krasnok A, Alù A. Enhanced excitation and emission from 2D transition metal dichalcogenides with all-dielectric nanoantennas. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2019; 30:254004. [PMID: 30844774 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab0daf] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The recently emerged concept of all-dielectric nanophotonics based on optical Mie resonances in high-index dielectric nanoparticles has proven to be a promising pathway to boost light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. In this work, we discuss the opportunities enabled by the interaction of dielectric nanoresonators with 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDCs), leading to weak and strong coupling regimes. We perform a comprehensive analysis of bright exciton photoluminescence (PL) enhancement from various 2D TMDCs, including WS2, MoS2, WSe2, and MoSe2 via their coupling to Mie resonances of a silicon nanoparticle. For each case, we find the system parameters corresponding to maximal PL enhancement taking into account excitation rate, Purcell factor and radiation efficiency. We demonstrate numerically that all-dielectric Si nanoantennas can significantly enhance the PL intensity from 2D TMDC by a factor of hundred through precise optimization of the geometrical and material parameters. Our results may be useful for high-efficiency 2D TMDC-based optoelectronic, nanophotonic, and quantum optical devices.
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Mey O, Wall F, Schneider LM, Günder D, Walla F, Soltani A, Roskos H, Yao N, Qing P, Fang W, Rahimi-Iman A. Enhancement of the Monolayer Tungsten Disulfide Exciton Photoluminescence with a Two-Dimensional Material/Air/Gallium Phosphide In-Plane Microcavity. ACS NANO 2019; 13:5259-5267. [PMID: 31018095 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b09659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Light-matter interactions with two-dimensional materials gained significant attention in recent years, leading to the reporting of weak and strong coupling regimes and effective nanolaser operation with various structures. Particularly, future applications involving monolayer materials in waveguide-coupled on-chip-integrated circuitry and valleytronic nanophotonics require controlling, directing, and optimizing photoluminescence. In this context, photoluminescence enhancement from monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides on patterned semiconducting substrates becomes attractive. It is demonstrated in our work using focused-ion-beam-etched GaP and monolayer WS2 suspended on hexagonal boron nitride buffer sheets. We present an optical microcavity approach capable of efficient in-plane and out-of-plane confinement of light, which results in a WS2 photoluminescence enhancement by a factor of 10 compared to that of the unstructured substrate at room temperature. The key concept is the combination of interference effects in both the horizontal direction using a bull's-eye-shaped circular Bragg grating and in the vertical direction by means of a multiple-reflection model with optimized etch depth of circular air-GaP structures for maximum constructive interference effects of the applied pump and expected emission light.
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- Oliver Mey
- Department of Physics and Materials Sciences Center , Philipps-Universität Marburg , 35032 Marburg , Germany
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- Department of Physics and Materials Sciences Center , Philipps-Universität Marburg , 35032 Marburg , Germany
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- Department of Physics and Materials Sciences Center , Philipps-Universität Marburg , 35032 Marburg , Germany
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- Department of Physics and Materials Sciences Center , Philipps-Universität Marburg , 35032 Marburg , Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut , Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität , 60438 Frankfurt am Main , Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut , Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität , 60438 Frankfurt am Main , Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut , Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität , 60438 Frankfurt am Main , Germany
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering , Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering , Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering , Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 , China
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- Department of Physics and Materials Sciences Center , Philipps-Universität Marburg , 35032 Marburg , Germany
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Ding B, Zhang Z, Chen YH, Zhang Y, Blaikie RJ, Qiu M. Tunable Valley Polarized Plasmon-Exciton Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors. ACS NANO 2019; 13:1333-1341. [PMID: 30726051 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b06775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Monolayers of transition-metal dicalcogenides have emerged as two-dimensional semiconductors with direct bandgaps at degenerate but inequivalent electronic "valleys", supporting distinct excitons that can be selectively excited by polarized light. These valley-addressable excitons, when strongly coupled with optical resonances, lead to the formation of half-light half-matter quasiparticles, known as polaritons. Here we report self-assembled plasmonic crystals that support tungsten disulfide monolayers, in which the strong coupling of semiconductor excitons and plasmon lattice modes results in a Rabi splitting of ∼160 meV in transmission spectra as well as valley-polarized photoluminescence at room temperature. More importantly we find that one can flexibly tune the degree of valley polarization by changing either the emission angle or the excitation angle of the pump beam. Our results provide a platform that allows the detection, control, and processing of optical spin and valley information at the nanoscale under ambient conditions.
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- Boyang Ding
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Department of Physics , University of Otago , Dunedin 9016 , New Zealand
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Center for Nanochemistry (CNC), College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics , Beijing Institute of Technology , Beijing 10081 , People's Republic of China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Center for Nanochemistry (CNC), College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , People's Republic of China
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- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Department of Physics , University of Otago , Dunedin 9016 , New Zealand
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- School of Engineering , Westlake University , Hangzhou 310024 , People's Republic of China
- Institute of Advanced Technology , Westlake Institute for Advanced Study , Hangzhou 310024 , People's Republic of China
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Chen JH, Tan J, Wu GX, Zhang XJ, Xu F, Lu YQ. Tunable and enhanced light emission in hybrid WS 2-optical-fiber-nanowire structures. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2019; 8:8. [PMID: 30651983 PMCID: PMC6333622 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-018-0115-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2018] [Revised: 12/06/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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In recent years, the two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted renewed interest owing to their remarkable physical and chemical properties. Similar to that of graphene, the atomic thickness of TMDCs significantly limits their optoelectronic applications. In this study, we report a hybrid WS2-optical-fiber-nanowire (WOFN) structure for broadband enhancement of the light-matter interactions, i.e., light absorption, photoluminescence (PL) and second-harmonic generation (SHG), through evanescent field coupling. The interactions between the anisotropic light field of an optical fiber nanowire (OFN) and the anisotropic second-order susceptibility tensor of WS2 are systematically studied theoretically and experimentally. In particular, an efficient SHG in the WOFN appears to be 20 times larger than that in the same OFN before the WS2 integration under the same conditions. Moreover, we show that strain can efficiently manipulate the PL and SHG in the WOFN owing to the large configurability of the silica OFN. Our results demonstrate the potential applications of waveguide-coupled TMDCs structures for tunable high-performance photonic devices.
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- Jin-hui Chen
- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation (Ministry of Education), College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093 People’s Republic of China
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- School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093 People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation (Ministry of Education), College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093 People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation (Ministry of Education), College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093 People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation (Ministry of Education), College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093 People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation (Ministry of Education), College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093 People’s Republic of China
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Luo Y, Shepard GD, Ardelean JV, Rhodes DA, Kim B, Barmak K, Hone JC, Strauf S. Deterministic coupling of site-controlled quantum emitters in monolayer WSe 2 to plasmonic nanocavities. NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 2018; 13:1137-1142. [PMID: 30374160 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-018-0275-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Solid-state single-quantum emitters are crucial resources for on-chip photonic quantum technologies and require efficient cavity-emitter coupling to realize quantum networks beyond the single-node level1,2. Monolayer WSe2, a transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor, can host randomly located quantum emitters3-6, while nanobubbles7 as well as lithographically defined arrays of pillars in contact with the transition metal dichalcogenide act as spatially controlled stressors8,9. The induced strain can then create excitons at defined locations. This ability to create zero-dimensional (0D) excitons anywhere within a 2D material is promising for the development of scalable quantum technologies, but so far lacks mature cavity integration and suffers from low emitter quantum yields. Here we demonstrate a deterministic approach to achieve Purcell enhancement at lithographically defined locations using the sharp corners of a metal nanocube for both electric field enhancement and to deform a 2D material. This nanoplasmonic platform allows the study of the same quantum emitter before and after coupling. For a 3 × 4 array of quantum emitters we show Purcell factors of up to 551 (average of 181), single-photon emission rates of up to 42 MHz and a narrow exciton linewidth as low as 55 μeV. Furthermore, the use of flux-grown WSe2 increases the 0D exciton lifetimes to up to 14 ns and the cavity-enhanced quantum yields from an initial value of 1% to up to 65% (average 44%).
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- Yue Luo
- Department of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
- Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
- Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA.
- Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA.
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