Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Dirac point induced ultralow-threshold laser and giant optoelectronic quantum oscillations in graphene-based heterojunctions

  • Golam Haider,
  • Rini Ravindranath,
  • Tzu-Pei Chen,
  • Prathik Roy,
  • Pradip Kumar Roy,
  • Shu-Yi Cai,
  • Huan-Tsung Chang,
  • Yang-Fang Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00345-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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In graphene, electrons possess zero effective mass in proximity to the Dirac point, an unusual feature that could trigger the development of novel photonic devices. Here, the authors combine graphene quantum dots with two graphene layers and observe laser action with ultralow threshold.