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Tunable WS Micro-Dome Open Cavity Single Photon Source
Jens-Christian Drawer, Salvatore Cianci, Vita Solovyeva +13
Versatile, tunable, and potentially scalable single-photon sources are a key asset in emergent photonic quantum technologies. In this work, a single-photon source based on WS m…
Extremely high excitonic -factors in 2D crystals by alloy-induced admixing of band states
Katarzyna Olkowska-Pucko, Tomasz Woźniak, Elena Blundo +24
Monolayers (MLs) of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (\mbox{S-TMDs}) emit light very efficiently and display rich spin-valley physics, with gyromagnetic (-) facto…
Giant light emission enhancement in strain-engineered InSe/MS (M=Mo,W) van der Waals heterostructures
Elena Blundo, Marzia Cuccu, Federico Tuzi +11
Two-dimensional crystals stack together through weak van der Waals (vdW) forces, offering unlimited possibilities to play with layer number, order and twist angle in vdW heterostru…
Localisation-to-delocalisation transition of moiré excitons in WSe/MoSe heterostructures
Elena Blundo, Federico Tuzi, Salvatore Cianci +12
Moiré excitons (MXs) are electron-hole pairs localised by the periodic (moiré) potential forming in two-dimensional heterostructures (HSs). MXs can be exploited, , for creati…
Imaging the Quantum Capacitance of Strained MoS2 Monolayers by Electrostatic Force Microscopy
Cinzia Di Giorgio, Elena Blundo, Julien Basset +7
We implemented radio frequency-assisted electrostatic force microscopy (RF-EFM) to investigate the electric field response of biaxially strained molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) monolay…
A source of entangled photons based on a cavity-enhanced and strain-tuned GaAs quantum dot
Michele B. Rota, Tobias M. Krieger, Quirin Buchinger +21
A quantum-light source that delivers photons with a high brightness and a high degree of entanglement is fundamental for the development of efficient entanglement-based quantum-key…
BULLKID: Monolithic array of particle absorbers sensed by Kinetic Inductance Detectors
A. Cruciani, L. Bandiera, M. Calvo +15
We introduce BULLKID, an innovative phonon detector consisting of an array of dices acting as particle absorbers sensed by multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs). The dice…
Excitons and trions in WSSe monolayers
Katarzyna Olkowska-Pucko, Elena Blundo, Natalia Zawadzka +15
The possibility of almost linear tuning of the band gap and of the electrical and optical properties in monolayers (MLs) of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide (S-TMD) a…
The COSmic Monopole Observer (COSMO)
S. Masi, E. Battistelli, P. de Bernardis +24
The COSmic Monopole Observer (COSMO) is an experiment to measure low-level spectral distortions in the isotropic component of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Deviations from…
Final results of CALDER: Kinetic inductance light detectors to search for rare events
Laura Cardani, Nicola Casali, Ivan Colantoni +6
The next generation of bolometric experiments searching for rave events, in particular for the neutrino-less double beta decay, needs fast, high-sensitivity and easy-to-scale cryog…
A chemically etched corrugated feedhorn array for D-band CMB observations
Stefano Mandelli, Elenia Manzan, Aniello Mennella +19
We present the design, manufacturing, and testing of a 37-element array of corrugated feedhorns for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements between and GHz. The…
Reducing the impact of radioactivity on quantum circuits in a deep-underground facility
Laura Cardani, Francesco Valenti, Nicola Casali +20
As quantum coherence times of superconducting circuits have increased from nanoseconds to hundreds of microseconds, they are currently one of the leading platforms for quantum info…
Engineered creation of periodic giant, non-uniform strains in MoS2 monolayers
Elena Blundo, Cinzia Di Giorgio, Giorgio Pettinari +5
The realization of ordered strain fields in two-dimensional crystals is an intriguing perspective in many respects, including the instauration of novel transport regimes and the ac…
In-flight performance of the LEKIDs of the OLIMPO experiment
A. Paiella, P. A. R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli +22
We describe the in-flight performance of the horn-coupled Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detector arrays of the balloon-borne OLIMPO experiment. These arrays have been designed…
Variation of the fundamental band gap nature in curved two-dimensional WS2
E. Blundo, M. Felici, T. Yildirim +7
We report a strain-induced direct-to-indirect band gap transition in mechanically deformed WS2 monolayers (MLs). The necessary amount of strain is attained by proton irradiation of…
Phonon and light read out of a LiMoO crystal with multiplexed kinetic inductance detectors
N. Casali, L. Cardani, I. Colantoni +5
Molybdenum based crystals such as LiMoO and CaMoO are emerging as leading candidates for next generation experiments searching for neutrino-less double beta decay with…
Kinetic Inductance Detectors and readout electronics for the OLIMPO experiment
A. Paiella, E. S. Battistelli, M. G. Castellano +13
Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) are superconductive lowtemperature detectors useful for astrophysics and particle physics. We have developed arrays of lumped elements KIDs (…
Kinetic Inductance Detectors for the OLIMPO experiment: in--flight operation and performance
S. Masi, P. de Bernardis, A. Paiella +22
We report on the performance of lumped--elements Kinetic Inductance Detector (KID) arrays for mm and sub--mm wavelengths, operated at 0.3K during the stratospheric flight of the OL…
Kinetic Inductance Detectors for the OLIMPO experiment: design and pre-flight characterization
A. Paiella, A. Coppolecchia, L. Lamagna +15
We designed, fabricated, and characterized four arrays of horn--coupled, lumped element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs), optimized to work in the spectral bands of the balloo…
Measurements and simulations of athermal phonon transmission from silicon absorbers to aluminium sensors
M. Martinez, L. Cardani, N. Casali +3
Phonon reflection and transmission at the interfaces plays a fundamental role in cryogenic particle detectors, in which the optimization of the phonon signal at the sensor (in case…
Proton-driven patterning of bulk transition metal dichalcogenides
Davide Tedeschi, Marco Felici, Giorgio Pettinari +6
At the few-atom-thick limit, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a host of attractive electronic optical, and structural properties. The possibility to pattern these pr…