Purcell-enhanced quantum yield from carbon nanotube excitons coupled to plasmonic nanocavities

Luo, Yue; Ahmadi, Ehsaneh D.; Shayan, Kamran; Ma, Yichen; Mistry, Kevin S.; Zhang, Changjian; Hone, James; Blackburn, Jeffrey L.; Strauf, Stefan

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01777-w

Purcell-enhanced quantum yield from carbon nanotube excitons coupled to plasmonic nanocavities

Journal Article · Fri Nov 10 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01777-w· OSTI ID:1409304

^[1]; Ahmadi, Ehsaneh D. ^[1]; Shayan, Kamran ^[1]; Ma, Yichen ^[1]; Mistry, Kevin S. ^[2]; Zhang, Changjian ^[3]; Hone, James ^[3]; ^[2]; ^[1]

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (United States)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are promising absorbers and emitters to enable novel photonic applications and devices but are also known to suffer from low optical quantum yields. Here we demonstrate SWCNT excitons coupled to plasmonic nanocavity arrays reaching deeply into the Purcell regime with Purcell factors (F_P) up to F_P = 180 (average F_P = 57), Purcell-enhanced quantum yields of 62% (average 42%), and a photon emission rate of 15 MHz into the first lens. The cavity coupling is quasi-deterministic since the photophysical properties of every SWCNT are enhanced by at least one order of magnitude. Furthermore, the measured ultra-narrow exciton linewidth (18 ueV) reaches the radiative lifetime limit, which is promising towards generation of transform-limited single photons. Furthermore, to demonstrate utility beyond quantum light sources we show that nanocavity-coupled SWCNTs perform as single-molecule thermometers detecting plasmonically induced heat at cryogenic temperatures in a unique interplay of excitons, phonons, and plasmons at the nanoscale.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1409304

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA--5900-68251

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 8; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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