Exciton-polaritons in van der Waals heterostructures embedded in tunable microcavities

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Dufferwiel, S ^a   Schwarz, S ^a   Withers, F ^b   Trichet, A A P ^c   Li, F ^a   Sich, M ^a   Del Pozo Zamudio, O ^a   Clark, C ^d   Nalitov, A ^e,f   Solnyshkov, D D ^e   Malpuech, G ^e   Novoselov, K S ^b   Smith, J M ^c   Skolnick, M S ^a   Krizhanovskii, D N ^a   Tartakovskii, A I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Helia Photonics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON DERIVATIVE; GRAPHENE; MOLYBDENUM;

CARBON; ELECTRON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; GEOMETRY; LAYER; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUBSTRATE; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ENERGY; MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATOR; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; POLYMERIZATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84943744480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9579     Document Type: Article

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