Single-defect spectroscopy in the shortwave infrared

Wu, Xiaojian; Kim, Mijin; Qu, Haoran; Wang, YuHuang

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10788-8

Title: Single-defect spectroscopy in the shortwave infrared

Journal Article · 17 June 2019 · Nature Communications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10788-8 · OSTI ID:1619526

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Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)

Chemical defects that fluoresce in the shortwave infrared open exciting opportunities in deep-penetration bioimaging, chemically specific sensing, and quantum technologies. However, the atomic size of defects and the high noise of infrared detectors have posed significant challenges to the studies of these unique emitters. Here we demonstrate high throughput single-defect spectroscopy in the shortwave infrared capable of quantitatively and spectrally resolving chemical defects at the single defect level. By cooling an InGaAs detector array down to -190 °C and implementing a nondestructive readout scheme, we are able to capture low light fluorescent events in the shortwave infrared with a signal-to-noise ratio improved by more than three orders-of-magnitude. As a demonstration, we show it is possible to resolve individual chemical defects in carbon nanotube semiconductors, simultaneously collecting a full spectrum for each defect within the entire field of view at the single defect limit.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). The Center for Enhanced Nanofluidic Transport (CENT); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0019112; CHE-150797; CHE-1904488; R01GM114167

OSTI ID:: 1619526

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1613113

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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