Telecom-Wavelength Single-Photon Emitters in Multilayer InSe

Zhao, Huan; Hus, Saban M.; Chen, Jinli; Yan, Xiaodong; Lawrie, Benjamin J.; Jesse, Stephen; Li, An-Ping; Liang, Liangbo; Htoon, Han

doi:10.1021/acsnano.4c13888

Telecom-Wavelength Single-Photon Emitters in Multilayer InSe

Journal Article · Thu Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2025 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c13888· OSTI ID:3002877

^[1]; ^[2]; Chen, Jinli ^[3]; ^[3]; ^[4]; ^[2]; ^[2]; ^[2]; ^[5]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science & Technology Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)

The development of robust and efficient single-photon emitters (SPEs) at telecom wavelengths is critical for advancements in quantum information science. Two-dimensional (2D) materials have recently emerged as promising sources for SPEs, owing to their high photon extraction efficiency, facile coupling to external fields, and seamless integration into photonic circuits. In this study, we demonstrate the creation of SPEs emitting in the 1000–1550 nm near-infrared range by coupling 2D indium selenide (InSe) with strain-inducing nanopillar arrays. The emission wavelength exhibits a strong dependence on the number of layers. Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiments conducted at 10 K reveal clear photon antibunching, confirming the single-photon nature of the emissions. In conclusion, density-functional-theory calculations and scanning-tunneling-microscopy analyses provide insights into the electronic structures and defect states, elucidating the origins of the SPEs.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: US Army Research Office (ARO); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 3002877

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Journal Name: ACS Nano Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 19; ISSN 1936-086X; ISSN 1936-0851

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (43)

Photoluminescence Enhancement of InSe by Coupling with Circular Bragg Grating Liu, Yong; Zhong, Qianqian; Liang, Delang Laser & Photonics Reviews, Vol. 17, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202300234	journal	June 2023
Efficiency of ab-initio total energy calculations for metals and semiconductors using a plane-wave basis set Kresse, G.; Furthmüller, J. Computational Materials Science, Vol. 6, Issue 1, p. 15-50 https://doi.org/10.1016/0927-0256(96)00008-0	journal	July 1996
Point Defects in Two-Dimensional Indium Selenide as Tunable Single-Photon Sources Salomone, Mattia; Re Fiorentin, Michele; Cicero, Giancarlo The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 45 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02912	journal	November 2021
Improving Strain-localized GaSe Single Photon Emitters with Electrical Doping Luo, Weijun; Puretzky, Alexander; Lawrie, Benjamin Nano Letters, Vol. 23, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02308	journal	October 2023
Manipulating Interlayer Excitons for Near-Infrared Quantum Light Generation Zhao, Huan; Zhu, Linghan; Li, Xiangzhi Nano Letters, Vol. 23, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03296	journal	December 2023
Formation and Healing of Defects in Atomically Thin GaSe and InSe Hopkinson, David G.; Zólyomi, Viktor; Rooney, Aidan P. ACS Nano, Vol. 13, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b08253	journal	April 2019
Deterministic Localization of Strain-Induced Single-Photon Emitters in Multilayer GaSe Luo, Weijun; Puretzky, Alexander A.; Lawrie, Benjamin J. ACS Photonics, Vol. 10, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00052	journal	July 2023
Quantum emission from hexagonal boron nitride monolayers Tran, Toan Trong; Bray, Kerem; Ford, Michael J. Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 11, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.242	journal	October 2015
Optically active quantum dots in monolayer WSe2 Srivastava, Ajit; Sidler, Meinrad; Allain, Adrien V. Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.60	journal	May 2015
Single photon emitters in exfoliated WSe2 structures Koperski, M.; Nogajewski, K.; Arora, A. Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.67	journal	May 2015
Single quantum emitters in monolayer semiconductors He, Yu-Ming; Clark, Genevieve; Schaibley, John R. Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.75	journal	May 2015
Voltage-controlled quantum light from an atomically thin semiconductor Chakraborty, Chitraleema; Kinnischtzke, Laura; Goodfellow, Kenneth M. Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.79	journal	May 2015
Quantum information transfer using photons Northup, T. E.; Blatt, R. Nature Photonics, Vol. 8, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.53	journal	April 2014
Tunable room-temperature single-photon emission at telecom wavelengths from sp3 defects in carbon nanotubes He, Xiaowei; Hartmann, Nicolai F.; Ma, Xuedan Nature Photonics, Vol. 11, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.119	journal	July 2017
Bright room temperature single photon source at telecom range in cubic silicon carbide Wang, Junfeng; Zhou, Yu; Wang, Ziyu Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06605-3	journal	October 2018
InSe as a case between 3D and 2D layered crystals for excitons Shubina, T. V.; Desrat, W.; Moret, M. Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11487-0	journal	August 2019
Defect and strain engineering of monolayer WSe2 enables site-controlled single-photon emission up to 150 K Parto, Kamyar; Azzam, Shaimaa I.; Banerjee, Kaustav Nature Communications, Vol. 12, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23709-5	journal	June 2021
Site-controlled telecom-wavelength single-photon emitters in atomically-thin MoTe2 Zhao, Huan; Pettes, Michael T.; Zheng, Yu Nature Communications, Vol. 12, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27033-w	journal	November 2021
Single-emitter quantum key distribution over 175 km of fibre with optimised finite key rates Morrison, Christopher L.; Pousa, Roberto G.; Graffitti, Francesco Nature Communications, Vol. 14, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39219-5	journal	June 2023
Telecom-band quantum dot technologies for long-distance quantum networks Yu, Ying; Liu, Shunfa; Lee, Chang-Min Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 18, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01528-7	journal	December 2023
Material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies Atatüre, Mete; Englund, Dirk; Vamivakas, Nick Nature Reviews Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-018-0008-9	journal	April 2018
2D materials for quantum information science Liu, Xiaolong; Hersam, Mark C. Nature Reviews Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-019-0136-x	journal	August 2019
Single artificial atoms in silicon emitting at telecom wavelengths Redjem, W.; Durand, A.; Herzig, T. Nature Electronics, Vol. 3, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-00499-0	journal	November 2020
Spin splitting in 2D monochalcogenide semiconductors Do, Dat T.; Mahanti, Subhendra D.; Lai, Chih Wei Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep17044	journal	November 2015
The direct-to-indirect band gap crossover in two-dimensional van der Waals Indium Selenide crystals Mudd, G. W.; Molas, M. R.; Chen, X. Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39619	journal	December 2016
The influence of chemical reactivity of surface defects on ambient-stable InSe-based nanodevices Politano, A.; Chiarello, G.; Samnakay, R. Nanoscale, Vol. 8, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1039/C6NR01262K	journal	January 2016
InSe: a two-dimensional material with strong interlayer coupling Sun, Yuanhui; Luo, Shulin; Zhao, Xin-Gang Nanoscale, Vol. 10, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NR09486H	journal	January 2018
Layer-number dependent and structural defect related optical properties of InSe Zheng, T.; Wu, Z. T.; Nan, H. Y. RSC Advances, Vol. 7, Issue 87 https://doi.org/10.1039/C7RA09370E	journal	January 2017
Atomic-scale mechanisms of defect- and light-induced oxidation and degradation of InSe Kistanov, Andrey A.; Cai, Yongqing; Zhou, Kun Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Vol. 6, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TC04738J	journal	January 2018
On-demand single-photon source for 1.3μm telecom fiber Ward, M. B.; Karimov, O. Z.; Unitt, D. C. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 86, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1922573	journal	May 2005
Defects and oxidation of group-III monochalcogenide monolayers Guo, Yu; Zhou, Si; Bai, Yizhen The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 147, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4993639	journal	September 2017
A quantum key distribution testbed using a plug&play telecom-wavelength single-photon source Gao, Timm; Rickert, Lucas; Urban, Felix Applied Physics Reviews, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0070966	journal	January 2022
Engineered quantum dot single-photon sources Buckley, Sonia; Rivoire, Kelley; Vučković, Jelena Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 75, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/75/12/126503	journal	November 2012
Micro-reflectance and transmittance spectroscopy: a versatile and powerful tool to characterize 2D materials Frisenda, Riccardo; Niu, Yue; Gant, Patricia Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 50, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aa5256	journal	January 2017
Single-photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride: a review of progress Sajid, A.; Ford, Michael J.; Reimers, Jeffrey R. Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/ab6310	journal	March 2020
Single-photon emitters in GaSe Tonndorf, Philipp; Schwarz, Stefan; Kern, Johannes 2D Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/aa525b	journal	February 2017
Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple Perdew, John P.; Burke, Kieron; Ernzerhof, Matthias Physical Review Letters, Vol. 77, Issue 18, p. 3865-3868 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3865	journal	October 1996
Van der Waals Density Functional for General Geometries Dion, M.; Rydberg, H.; Schröder, E. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 92, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.246401	journal	June 2004
Indirect-to-direct band-gap transition in few-layer β -InSe as probed by photoluminescence spectroscopy Borodin, B. R.; Eliseyev, I. A.; Galimov, A. I. Physical Review Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.014001	journal	January 2024
Room temperature solid-state quantum emitters in the telecom range Zhou, Yu; Wang, Ziyu; Rasmita, Abdullah Science Advances, Vol. 4, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar3580	journal	March 2018
Highly energy-tunable quantum light from moiré-trapped excitons Baek, H.; Brotons-Gisbert, M.; Koong, Z. X. Science Advances, Vol. 6, Issue 37 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba8526	journal	September 2020
Layer-number dependent reflection spectra of MoS₂ flakes on SiO₂/Si substrate Li, Xiaoli; Shi, Yafang; Li, Shuai Optical Materials Express, Vol. 8, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.8.003082	journal	September 2018
Advances in quantum light emission from 2D materials Chakraborty, Chitraleema; Vamivakas, Nick; Englund, Dirk Nanophotonics, Vol. 8, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2019-0140	journal	August 2019

Similar Records

Site-controlled telecom-wavelength single-photon emitters in atomically-thin MoTe2

Journal Article · Thu Nov 18 19:00:00 EST 2021 · Nature Communications · OSTI ID:1831554

Deterministic Localization of Strain-Induced Single-Photon Emitters in Multilayer GaSe

Journal Article · Wed Jul 26 20:00:00 EDT 2023 · ACS Photonics · OSTI ID:1996710

Related Subjects

2D Material
Defects
Electrical conductivity
Indium Selenide
Layers
Quantum mechanics
Scanning tunneling microscopy
Single-Photon Emitter
Strain Engineering

Telecom-Wavelength Single-Photon Emitters in Multilayer InSe

Citation Formats

References (43)

Similar Records

Related Subjects