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Momentum-Space Imaging of Ultra-Thin Electron Liquids in δ-Doped Silicon

Two-dimensional dopant layers (δ-layers) in semiconductors provide the high-mobility electron liquids (2DELs) needed for nanoscale quantum-electronic devices. Key parameters such as carrier densities, effective masses, and confinement thicknesses for 2DELs ...

WILEY2023

Investigation of thermoelectric nanomaterials

David Thomas Osenberg

Thermoelectric conversion remains an active research field in light of its potential to enhance energy efficiency by waste heat recovery in a noise and wear-free manner.Nanostructuring is responsible for most of the recently reported improvements of the fi ...

EPFL2023

Coherent Hole Transport in Selective Area Grown Ge Nanowire Networks

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Alok Rudra, Andrea Giunto, Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan, Nicholas Paul Morgan

Holes in germanium nanowires have emerged as a realistic platform for quantum computing based on spin qubit logic. On top of the large spin–orbit coupling that allows fast qubit operation, nanowire geometry and orientation can be tuned to cancel out charge ...

2022

Aptamer Conformational Change Enables Serotonin Biosensing with Nanopipettes

Nako Nakatsuka, Dmitry Momotenko, Dominic Eggemann, Csaba Forro

We report artificial nanopores in the form of quartz nanopipettes with ca. 10 nm orifices functionalized with molecular recognition elements termed aptamers that reversibly recognize serotonin with high specificity and selectivity. Nanoscale confinement of ...

2021

Single Photon Emission from a Plasmonic Light Source Driven by a Local Field-Induced Coulomb Blockade

Klaus Kern, Anna Maria Roslawska, Abhishek Grewal

A hallmark of quantum control is the ability to manipulate quantum emission at the nanoscale. Through scanning tunneling microscopy-induced luminescence (STML), we are able to generate plasmonic light originating from inelastic tunneling processes that occ ...

2020

Incidence of Quantum Confinement on Dark Triplet Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes

The photophysics of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is intensively studied due to their potential application in light harvesting and optoelectronics. Excited states of SWCNTs form strongly bound electron-hole pairs, excitons, of which only singlet e ...

2020

Electronic transport across quantum dots in graphene nanoribbons: Toward built-in gap-tunable metal-semiconductor-metal heterojunctions

Oleg Yazyev, Kristians Cernevics, Michele Pizzochero

The success of all-graphene electronics is severely hindered by the challenging realization and subsequent integration of semiconducting channels and metallic contacts. Here, we comprehensively investigate the electronic transport across width-modulated he ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Formation, electronic structure, and optical properties of self-assembled quantum-dot single-photon emitters in Ga(N,As,P) nanowires

Luca Francaviglia

Quantum dots (QDs) formed in semiconductor nanowires (NWs) form a basis for studying interesting quantum phenomena and provide an exciting platform for various device applications, where in-depth understanding of the formation and electronic properties of ...

2020

Synthesis and Size-Dependent Optical Properties of Intermediate Band Gap Cu3VS4 Nanocrystals

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Ulrich Aschauer, Valeria Mantella, Seryio Saris

Intermediate band gap semiconductors are an underex-plored class of materials with unique optical properties of interest for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications. Herein, we synthesize highly crystalline cubic Cu3VS4 nanocrystals with tunable edge ...

2019

Bimodal exciton-plasmon light sources controlled by local charge carrier injection

Klaus Kern, Anna Maria Roslawska, Christoph Grosse

Electrical charges can generate photon emission in nanoscale quantum systems by two independent mechanisms. First, radiative recombination of pairs of oppositely charged carriers generates sharp excitonic lines. Second, coupling between currents and collec ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2018

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