Correlated fluorescence blinking in two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures

• Main Authors: Xu, Weigao, Liu, Weiwei, Schmidt, Jan F., Zhao, Weijie, Lu, Xin, Raab, Timo, Diederichs, Carole, Gao, Weibo, Seletskiy, Denis V., Xiong, Qihua
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Quantum effects; Single photons
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86302; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43979
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

‘Blinking’, or ‘fluorescence intermittency’, refers to a random switching between ‘ON’ (bright) and ‘OFF’ (dark) states of an emitter; it has been studied widely in zero-dimensional quantum dots1 and molecules2, 3, and scarcely in one-dimensional systems4, 5. A generally accepted mechanism for blink...