<italic toggle="yes">In situ spontaneous emission control of MoSe2-WSe2 interlayer excitons with high quantum yield

Bo Han; Chirag C. Palekar; Frederik Lohof; Sven Stephan; Victor N. Mitryakhin; Jens-Christian Drawer; Alexander Steinhoff; Lukas Lackner; Martin Silies; Bárbara Rosa; Martin Esmann; Falk Eilenberger; Christopher Gies; Stephan Reitzenstein; Christian Schneider

doi:10.1364/PRJ.540127

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 1, 210(2025)

In situ spontaneous emission control of MoSe₂-WSe₂ interlayer excitons with high quantum yield

Bo Han^1、†, Chirag C. Palekar^2、†, Frederik Lohof³, Sven Stephan^1,4, Victor N. Mitryakhin¹, Jens-Christian Drawer¹, Alexander Steinhoff³, Lukas Lackner¹, Martin Silies^1,4, Bárbara Rosa², Martin Esmann¹, Falk Eilenberger^5,6,7, Christopher Gies^1,8、*, Stephan Reitzenstein^2,9、*, and Christian Schneider^1,10、*

Author Affiliations

¹Institut für Physik, Fakultät V, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany

²Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany

³Institute for Theoretical Physics and Bremen Center for Computational Material Science, Universität Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany

⁴Institute for Lasers and Optics, Hochschule Emden/Leer, 26723 Emden, Germany

⁵Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, 07745 Jena, Germany

⁶Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, 07745 Jena, Germany

⁷Max Planck School of Photonics, 07745 Jena, Germany

⁸e-mail: christopher.gies@uni-oldenburg.de

⁹e-mail: stephan.reitzenstein@physik.tu-berlin.de

¹⁰e-mail: christian.schneider@uni-oldenburg.de

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Category: Optical and Photonic Materials

Received: Aug. 21, 2024

Accepted: Nov. 4, 2024

Published Online: Dec. 26, 2024

The Author Email: Christopher Gies (christopher.gies@uni-oldenburg.de), Stephan Reitzenstein (stephan.reitzenstein@physik.tu-berlin.de), Christian Schneider (christian.schneider@uni-oldenburg.de)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.540127

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.540127

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