Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Cascaded emission of single photons from the biexciton in monolayered WSe2

  • Yu-Ming He,
  • Oliver Iff,
  • Nils Lundt,
  • Vasilij Baumann,
  • Marcelo Davanco,
  • Kartik Srinivasan,
  • Sven Höfling,
  • Christian Schneider

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13409
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides constitute an ideal platform to investigate solid state excitonic effects. Here, the authors provide experimental evidence of a localized biexciton in a monolayer of WSe2, which induces an emission cascade of single photons.