Controlling the optical properties of carbon nanotubes with organic colour-centre quantum defects

AH Brozena, M Kim, LR Powell, YH Wang - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Previously unwelcome, defects are emerging as a new frontier of research, providing a
molecular focal point to study the coupling of electrons, excitons, phonons and spin in low …

Atomic-scale imaging and spectroscopy of electroluminescence at molecular interfaces

K Kuhnke, C Grosse, P Merino, K Kern - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The conversion of electric power to light is an important scientific and technological
challenge. Advanced experimental methods have provided access to explore the relevant …

Visualizing coherent intermolecular dipole–dipole coupling in real space

Y Zhang, Y Luo, Y Zhang, YJ Yu, YM Kuang, L Zhang… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Many important energy-transfer and optical processes, in both biological and artificial
systems, depend crucially on excitonic coupling that spans several chromophores,,,,,,,,. Such …

[HTML][HTML] Electrically driven single-photon emission from an isolated single molecule

L Zhang, YJ Yu, LG Chen, Y Luo, B Yang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Electrically driven molecular light emitters are considered to be one of the promising
candidates as single-photon sources. However, it is yet to be demonstrated that electrically …

Electroluminescence of a polythiophene molecular wire suspended between a metallic surface and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope

G Reecht, F Scheurer, V Speisser, YJ Dappe… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
The electroluminescence of a polythiophene wire suspended between a metallic surface
and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope is reported. Under positive sample voltage …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoparticle characterization based on STM and STS

S Kano, T Tada, Y Majima - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we describe recent progress made in the study of nanoparticles characterized
by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS). Basic …

STM probing the supramolecular coordination chemistry on solid surface: Structure, dynamic, and reactivity

Y Geng, P Li, J Li, X Zhang, Q Zeng, C Wang - Coordination Chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Supramolecular coordination chemistry is currently a very popular topic in metallorganic
chemistry and has a very large impact on a broad field of applications. More importantly, the …

[HTML][HTML] Anomalously bright single-molecule upconversion electroluminescence

Y Luo, FF Kong, XJ Tian, YJ Yu, SH Jing… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Efficient upconversion electroluminescence is highly desirable for a broad range of
optoelectronic applications, yet to date, it has been reported only for ensemble systems …

[HTML][HTML] Light from van der Waals quantum tunneling devices

M Parzefall, Á Szabó, T Taniguchi, K Watanabe… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Light at the end of the tunnel

M Parzefall, L Novotny - ACS Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
In recent years, tunnel junctions have reemerged as promising candidates for the
transduction of electrical to optical signals at the nanoscale. The process of interest is known …