TY  - JOUR
A1  - He, Yu-Ming
A1  - Iff, Oliver
A1  - Lundt, Nils
A1  - Baumann, Vasilij
A1  - Davanco, Marcelo
A1  - Srinivasan, Kartik
A1  - Höfling, Sven
A1  - Schneider, Christian
T1  - Cascaded emission of single photons from the biexciton in monolayered WSe\(_{2}\)
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenide materials emerged as a new material class to study excitonic effects in solid state, as they benefit from enormous Coulomb correlations between electrons and holes. Especially in WSe\(_{2}\), sharp emission features have been observed at cryogenic temperatures, which act as single photon sources. Tight exciton localization has been assumed to induce an anharmonic excitation spectrum; however, the evidence of the hypothesis, namely the demonstration of a localized biexciton, is elusive. Here we unambiguously demonstrate the existence of a localized biexciton in a monolayer of WSe\(_{2}\), which triggers an emission cascade of single photons. The biexciton is identified by its time-resolved photoluminescence, superlinearity and distinct polarization in micro-photoluminescence experiments. We evidence the cascaded nature of the emission process in a cross-correlation experiment, which yields a strong bunching behaviour. Our work paves the way to a new generation of quantum optics experiments with two-dimensional semiconductors.
KW  - lasers
KW  - LED
KW  - quantum dots
KW  - light sources
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-169363
VL  - 7
ER  -