Monolayer excitonic laser

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 733-737

  Ye, Yu ^a,b   Wong, Zi Jing ^a,b   Lu, Xiufang ^c   Ni, Xingjie ^a,b   Zhu, Hanyu ^a   Chen, Xianhui ^c   Wang, Yuan ^a,b   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRANSITION METALS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; MICRODISK RESONATORS; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT; OPTICAL FUNCTIONALITIES; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 84946532298     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.197     Document Type: Article

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