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most citedLow-threshold lasing of optically pumped micropillar lasers with AlGaAs/AlGaAs distributed Bragg reflectors

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26 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Resolving High-Energy States of Interlayer Excitons in MoSe/WSe Heterostructures

Chirag Chandrakant Palekar, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Tobias Manthei +8

High-energy states of interlayer excitons (IXs) in van der Waals heterostructures remain largely unexplored despite their importance for understanding many-body interactions and no…

physics.optics2026

An integrated all-van der Waals nanobeam laser

Aris Koulas-Simos, Pietro Metuh, Athanasios Paralikis +7

Transition-metal dichalcogenides offer a promising platform for integrated coherent light sources, yet lasing has largely relied on hybrid photonic architectures without direct qua…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Anisotropic nanoscale coherent polariton transport in CrSBr

Paritosh Malik, Dogyun Ko, Vita Solovyeva +11

In a combined experimental and theoretical study, we demonstrate anisotropic polariton transport on the nanoscale in the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr. While effective cavity…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Energy-time entanglement from a monolithically integrated quantum dot on silicon

Marcel Hohn, Imad Limame, Peter Ludewig +4

Scalable quantum photonic technologies require deterministic sources of entangled photons that are compatible with established semiconductor manufacturing platforms. While self-ass…

physics.optics2026

Integrated Whispering-Gallery Microlaser-Waveguide Platform for On-Chip Electrical Excitation of InGaAs Quantum Dots

Léo J. Roche, Peter Gschwandtner, Chirag C. Palekar +6

We report the fabrication and characterization of an integrated quantum photonic device consisting of an electrically driven whispering-gallery-mode micropillar laser evanescently…

physics.app-ph2026

Monolithic axial InGaAs quantum dot emitters in GaAs-based nanowires via Sb-mediated facet engineering

Hyowon W. Jeong, Aris Koulas-Simos, Imad Limame +6

GaAs-based nanowires hosting active quantum heterostructures provide a promising route toward monolithic integration of single-photon sources on silicon, a key requirement for scal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Localized Excitonic Emission in Wafer-Scale MOCVD-Grown GaSe 2D Nanosheets for Classical and Non-Classical Light Sources

Bhabani Sankar Sahoo, Nils Fritjof Langlotz, Shachi Machchhar +11

Wafer-scale growth of two-dimensional semiconductors remains a key challenge for their integration into photonic technologies. While most studies of two-dimensional semiconductors…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Strain-Engineered Deterministic Quantum Dots for Telecom O-Band Emission Using Buried Stressors

Imad Limame, Ching-Wen Shih, Kartik Gaur +7

The deterministic realization of quantum light sources operating at telecom wavelengths is essential for long-distance fiber-based quantum communication and distributed quantum com…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Probing Interface-Driven Mechanisms of Non-Classical Light in van der Waals Heterostructures

Bárbara L. T. Rosa, Lara Greten, Raphaela de Oliveira +7

Single-photon emitters in two-dimensional semiconductors offer a versatile platform for integrated quantum photonics, yet their performance is strongly influenced by local dielectr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 2 cited

Buried Stressor Engineering for Position-Controlled InGaAs Quantum Dots with Local Density Variation for Integrated Quantum Photonics

Martin Podhorský, Maximilian Klonz, Lux Böhmer +5

We report on the monolithic, two-step epitaxial growth of site-controlled InGaAs quantum dots via the buried stressor method with local quantum dot density variation. As a result o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Robust Interlayer Exciton Interplay in Twisted van der Waals Heterotrilayer on a Broadband Bragg Reflector up to Room Temperature

Bhabani Sankar Sahoo, Shachi Machchhar, Avijit Barua +6

We report robust room temperature interlayer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures engineered via precise stacking orientation and twist-angle control. We in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Scalable Quantum Photonic Platform Based on Site-Controlled Quantum Dots Coupled to Circular Bragg Grating Resonators

Kartik Gaur, Avijit Barua, Sarthak Tripathi +12

The scalable integration of solid-state quantum emitters into photonic nanostructures remains a central challenge for quantum photonic technologies. Here, we demonstrate a robust a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Direct Epitaxial Growth and Deterministic Device Integration of high-quality Telecom O-Band InGaAs Quantum Dots on Silicon Substrate

Imad Limame, Peter Ludewig, Aris Koulas-Simos +9

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are key building blocks for photonic quantum technologies, enabling practical sources of non-classical light. A central challenge for scalable inte…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Electrical manipulation of intervalley trions in twisted MoSe homobilayers at room temperature

Bárbara L. T. Rosa, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Alisson R. Cadore +6

The impressive physics and applications of intra- and interlayer excitons in a transition metal dichalcogenide twisted-bilayer make these systems compelling platforms for exploring…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Enhancement of interlayer exciton emission in a TMDC heterostructure via a multi-resonant chirped microresonator up to room temperature

Chirag C. Palekar, Barbara Rosa, Niels Heermeier +5

We report on multi-resonance chirped distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) microcavities. These systems are employed to investigate the light-mater interaction with both intra- and int…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Self-aligned photonic defect microcavities with site-controlled quantum dots

C. -W. Shih, I. Limame, C. C. Palekar +4

Despite the superiority in quantum properties, self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots face challenges in terms of scalable device integration because of their random growth posi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

High-quality single InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot growth on a CMOS-compatible silicon substrate for quantum photonic applications

Imad Limame, Peter Ludewig, Ching-Wen Shih +4

We present the direct heteroepitaxial growth of high-quality InGaAs quantum dots on silicon, enabling scalable, cost-effective quantum photonics devices compatible with CMOS techno…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Amplification of interlayer exciton emission in twisted WSe/WSe/MoSe heterotrilayers

Chirag C. Palekar, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Barbara Rosa +4

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures have unique properties that depend on the twisting angle and stacking order of two or more monolayers. However, their practi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Twist Angle Dependence of Exciton Resonances in WSe/MoSe Moiré Heterostructures

Chirag Chandrakant Palekar, Joakim Hagel, Barbara Rosa +7

Van der Waals heterostructures based on TMDC semiconducting materials have emerged as promising materials due to their spin-valley properties efficiently contrived by the stacking-…

physics.optics2023

High- lasing in photonic-defect semiconductor-dielectric hybrid microresonators with embedded InGaAs quantum dots

Kartik Gaur, Ching-Wen Shih, Imad Limame +6

We report an easy-to-fabricate microcavity design to produce optically pumped high- quantum dot microlasers. Our cavity concept is based on a buried photonic-defect for tight la…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

In-situ spontaneous emission control of MoSe-WSe interlayer excitons with near-unity quantum yield

Bo Han, Chirag Chandrakant Palekar, Sven Stephan +12

Optical resonators are a powerful platform to control the spontaneous emission dynamics of excitons in solid-state nanostructures. Here, we study a MoSe-WSe van-der-Waals h…

physics.optics2023

Development of High-Quality Polymer/Air-Bragg Micromirror Structures for Nanophotonic Applications

Chirag Chandrakant Palekar, Manan Shah, Stephan Reitzenstein +1

We report the design, nanofabrication, and characterization of high-quality polymer-based micromirror structures employing the 3D two-photon polymerization lithography technique. C…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 14 cited

Low-threshold lasing of optically pumped micropillar lasers with AlGaAs/AlGaAs distributed Bragg reflectors

Ching-Wen Shih, Imad Limame, Sebastian Krüger +4

We report on the design, realization and characterization of optically pumped micropillar lasers with low-absorbing AlGaAs/AlGaAs dielectric Bragg r…

quant-ph2022

Scalable deterministic integration of two quantum dots into an on-chip quantum circuit

Shulun Li, Yuhui Yang, Johannes Schall +9

Integrated quantum photonic circuits (IQPCs) with deterministically integrated quantum emitters are critical elements for scalable quantum information applications and have attract…