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Light from van der Waals quantum tunneling devices.
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- Plasmonic signal modulation at sub-GHz frequency via on-chip integration of tunnel junctions.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2024Article
- Overbias Photon Emission from Light-Emitting Devices Based on Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.Nano letters · 2023Article
- Exciton-assisted electron tunnelling in van der Waals heterostructures.Nature materials · 2023Article
- Resonant inelastic tunneling using multiple metallic quantum wells.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2023Article
- Electrically driven nanogap antennas and quantum tunneling regime.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2023Review
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- Deep-ultraviolet electroluminescence and photocurrent generation in graphene/hBN/graphene heterostructures.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Highly-efficient electrically-driven localized surface plasmon source enabled by resonant inelastic electron tunneling.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Antenna surface plasmon emission by inelastic tunneling.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Graphene-Supported Thin Metal Films for Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Tunneling time probed by quantum shot noise.Nature communications · 2018Article
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Abstract
The understanding of and control over light emission from quantum tunneling has challenged researchers for more than four decades due to the intricate interplay of electrical and optical properties in atomic scale volumes. Here we introduce a device architecture that allows for the disentanglement of electronic and photonic pathways-van der Waals quantum tunneling devices. The electronic properties are defined by a stack of two-dimensional atomic crystals whereas the optical properties are controlled via an external photonic architecture. In van der Waals heterostructures made of gold, hexagonal boron nitride and graphene we find that inelastic tunneling results in the emission of photons and surface plasmon polaritons. By coupling these heterostructures to optical nanocube antennas we achieve resonant enhancement of the photon emission rate in narrow frequency bands by four orders of magnitude. Our results lead the way towards a new generation of nanophotonic devices that are driven by quantum tunneling.
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