Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Enabling remote quantum emission in 2D semiconductors via porous metallic networks

  • Jose J. Fonseca,
  • Andrew L. Yeats,
  • Brandon Blue,
  • Maxim K. Zalalutdinov,
  • Todd Brintlinger,
  • Blake S. Simpkins,
  • Daniel C. Ratchford,
  • James C. Culbertson,
  • Joel Q. Grim,
  • Samuel G. Carter,
  • Masa Ishigami,
  • Rhonda M. Stroud,
  • Cory D. Cress,
  • Jeremy T. Robinson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13857-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here, the authors develop a reverse epitaxial process whereby a nanocrystalline Au film becomes highly textured and support a suspended 2D WSe2 overlayer. Surface plasmon polaritons are launched in nanostructured Au by laser excitation and couple remotely to single photon emitters present in WSe2.