Single-photon emission from localized excitons in an atomically thin semiconductor

Optica

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 347-352

  Tonndorf, Philipp ^a   Schmidt, Robert ^a   Schneider, Robert ^a   Kern, Johannes ^a   Buscema, Michele ^b   Steele, Gary A ^b   Castellanos Gomez, Andres ^b   Van Der Zant, Herre S J ^b   De Vasconcellos, Steffen Michaelis ^a   Bratschitsch, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nanomaterials; Photon statistics; Semiconductor materials; Spectroscopy, condensed matter; Spectroscopy, fluorescence and luminescence; Spectroscopy, semiconductors

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; EXCITONS; LIGHT; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TRANSITION METALS;

FLUORESCENCE AND LUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON STATISTICS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SINGLE PHOTON EMITTERS; SPECTROSCOPY , CONDENSED MATTER; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84930433834     PISSN: 23342536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.2.000347     Document Type: Article

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