Optically active quantum dots in monolayer WSe 2

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 491-496

  Srivastava, Ajit ^a   Sidler, Meinrad ^a   Allain, Adrien V ^b   Lembke, Dominik S ^b   Kis, Andras ^b   Imamoglu, A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EXCITONS; GROUND STATE; MONOLAYERS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; OPTICALLY ACTIVE QUANTUM DOTS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION; SOLID-STATE RESEARCH; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL EXCITONS; ZERO-FIELD SPLITTINGS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT; SELENIDE; TRANSITION ELEMENT; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN DISELENIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; EXCITATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIQUID CRYSTAL; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLID STATE; WHITE LIGHT;

EID: 84930446505     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.60     Document Type: Article

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