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most citedImaging strain-localized exciton states in nanoscale bubbles in monolayer WSe2 at room temperature

233 citations · 471 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.app-ph2026

Determination of the roles of strain and tearing in single photon emission from nanoindented WSe

Joseph Stage, John Pierce Fix, Matthew C. Strasbourg +7

Single-photon emission in two-dimensional single-layer WSe2 is attractive for the on-demand generation of quantum states of light. The electronic states that are responsible for si…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Quantum Light Nano-Imaging

Michael Dapolito, Matthew Fu, Fuyang Tay +20

Entanglement and quantum correlations are central to the physics of quantum materials, yet they have remained notoriously difficult to access experimentally. Accessing these phenom…

physics.optics2026

Polar enhancement of optical nonlinearities and domain-driven second harmonic contrast in bismuth telluro-halide van der Waals crystals

Kevin W. C. Kwock, Tenzin Norden, Thomas P. Darlington +11

The BiTeX family of polar van der Waals (vdW) semiconductors offers a unique platform for exploring the interplay between polar crystalline structure and nonlinear optical phenomen…

physics.app-ph2025

Flat band excitons in a three-dimensional supertwisted spiral transition metal dichalcogenide

Yinan Dong, Yuzhou Zhao, Lennart Klebl +19

A new frontier in van der Waals twistronics is the development of three-dimensional (3D) supertwisted materials, where each successive atomic layer rotates by the same angle. While…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence

Samuel L. Moore, Hae Yeon Lee, Nicholas Rivera +15

Atomically layered van der Waals (vdW) materials exhibit remarkable properties, including highly-confined infrared waveguide modes and the capacity for infrared emission in the mon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Probing and Tuning Strain-localized Exciton Emission in 2D Material Bubbles at Room Temperature

Junze Zhou, John Thomas, Thomas P. Darlington +4

Excitons in 2D material bubbles-nanoscale deformations in atomically thin materials, typically exhibiting a dome-like shape-are confined by the strain effect, exhibiting extraordin…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 2 cited

Magnetic excitations and absence of charge order in the van der Waals ferromagnet FeGeTe

V. K. Bhartiya, T. Kim, J. Li +12

Understanding the ground state of van der Waals (vdW) magnets is crucial for designing devices leveraging these platforms. Here, we investigate the magnetic excitations and charge…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Optical Band Engineering of Monolayer WSe2 in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Xuehao Wu, Thomas P. Darlington, Madisen A. Holbrook +7

Intense electromagnetic fields can result in dramatic changes in the electronic properties of solids. These changes are commonly studied using optical probes of the modified electr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Uniaxial plasmon polaritons charge transfer at the graphene/CrSBr interface

Daniel J. Rizzo, Eric Seewald, Fangzhou Zhao +24

Graphene is a privileged 2D platform for hosting confined light-matter excitations known as surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs), as it possesses low intrinsic losses with a high degr…

physics.optics2024★ 62 cited

Infrared nanosensors of pico- to micro-newton forces

Natalie Fardian-Melamed, Artiom Skripka, Changhwan Lee +9

Mechanical force is an essential feature for many physical and biological processes.1-12 Remote measurement of mechanical signals with high sensitivity and spatial resolution is ne…

physics.optics2023★ 5 cited

Highly tunable room-temperature plexcitons in monolayer WSe2 /gap-plasmon nanocavities

Thomas P. Darlington, Mahfujur Rahaman, Kevin W. C. Kwock +16

The advancement of quantum photonic technologies relies on the ability to precisely control the degrees of freedom of optically active states. Here, we realize real-time, room-temp…

physics.optics2023★ 4 cited

Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in 2D Metal-Chalcogenates

Surendra B. Anantharaman, Jason Lynch, Mariya Aleksich +10

Hybridization of excitons with photons to form hybrid quasiparticles, exciton-polaritons (EPs), has been widely investigated in a range of semiconductor material systems coupled to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 1 cited

Programmable Nanowrinkle-Induced Room-Temperature Exciton Localization in Monolayer WSe2

Emanuil S. Yanev, Thomas P. Darlington, Sophia A. Ladyzhets +8

Localized states in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been the subject of intense study, driven by potential applications in quantum information sc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 1 cited

Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics of Hybridized Exciton-Polaritons in 2D Halide Perovskites

Surendra B. Anantharaman, Jason Lynch, Christopher E. Stevens +14

Excitons, bound electron-hole pairs, in Two-Dimensional Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites (2D HOIPs) are capable of forming hybrid light-matter states known as exciton-polariton…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 114 cited

Programming moiré patterns in 2D materials by bending

Mäelle Kapfer, Bjarke S. Jessen, Megan E. Eisele +20

Moiré superlattices in twisted two-dimensional materials have generated tremendous excitement as a platform for achieving quantum properties on demand. However, the moiré pattern i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 26 cited

Ultra Localized Optoelectronic Properties of Nanobubbles in 2D Semiconductors

Sara Shabani, Thomas P. Darlington, Colin Gordon +7

The optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides have previously been modified at the nanoscale by using mechanical and electrical nanostructuring. However, a clear exper…

physics.optics2022★ 18 cited

Direct Nano-Imaging of Light-Matter Interactions in Nanoscale Excitonic Emitters

Kiyoung Jo, Emanuele Marino, Jason Lynch +8

Strong light-matter interactions in localized nano-emitters when placed near metallic mirrors have been widely reported via spectroscopic studies in the optical far-field. Here, we…

physics.optics2021

Nanoscale Optical Imaging of 2D Semiconductor Stacking Orders by Exciton-Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation

Kaiyuan Yao, Shuai Zhang, Emanuil Yanev +9

Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a nonlinear optical response arising exclusively from broken inversion symmetry in the electric-dipole limit. Recently, SHG has attracted widesp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Increased formation of trions and charged biexcitons by above-gap excitation in single-layer

Matthew C. Strasbourg, Emanuil S. Yanev, Sheikh Parvez +8

Two-dimensional semiconductors exhibit pronounced many-body effects and intense optical responses due to strong coulombic interactions. Consequently, subtle differences in photoexc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 233 cited

Imaging strain-localized exciton states in nanoscale bubbles in monolayer WSe2 at room temperature

Thomas P. Darlington, Christian Carmesin, Matthias Florian +14

In monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, quantum emitters are associated with localized strain that can be deterministically applied to create designer nano-arrays of single…