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most citedVariation of the fundamental band gap nature in curved two-dimensional WS2

164 citations · 690 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

quant-ph2025

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

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…

quant-ph2022★ 47 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2022★ 25 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 13 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 9 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 16 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 6 cited

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 160 cited

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…

physics.app-ph2020★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 18 cited

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 164 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 15 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

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 (…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 31 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 28 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2018★ 38 cited

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 105 cited

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…