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

233 citations · 297 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

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.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…

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…

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-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.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.mes-hall2021★ 27 cited

Manipulation of Exciton Dynamics in Single-Layer WSe2 Using a Toroidal Dielectric Metasurface

Long Yuan, Jeeyoon Jeong, Kevin Wen Chi Kwock +9

Recent advances in emerging atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors with strong light-matter interactions and tunable optical properties provide novel approa…

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…