Room-Temperature 2D Semiconductor Activated Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
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Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are opening a new platform for revitalizing widely spread optoelectronic applications. The realisation of room-temperature vertical 2D lasing from monolayer semiconductors is fundamentally interesting and highly desired for appealing on-chip laser applications such as optical interconnects and supercomputing. Here, we present room-temperature low-threshold lasing from 2D semiconductor activated vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) under continuous-wave pumping. 2D lasing is achieved from a 2D semiconductor. Structurally, dielectric oxides were used to construct the half-wavelength-thick cavity and distributed Bragg reflectors, in favour of single-mode operation and ultralow optical loss; in the cavity centre, the direct-bandgap monolayer WS2was embedded as the gain medium, compatible with the planar VCSEL configuration and the monolithic integration technology. This work demonstrates 2D semiconductor activated VCSELs with desirable emission characteristics, which represents a major step towards practical optoelectronic applications of 2D semiconductor lasers.
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Bose-Einstein condensation and polariton lasing are possible in microcavities, even at room temperature.
“The possibilities of achieving Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) [264-267] and polariton lasing [137,268-270], even at room temperature, are some of the current topics in the field of microcavity research.”
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- Authors
- Shang, J., Cong, C., Wang, Z., Peimyoo, N., Wu, L., Zou, C., Chen, Y., Chin, X. Y., Wang, J., Soci, C., Huang, W., & Yu, T.
- Affiliations
- Nanjing Tech University (CN)
- Fudan University (CN)
- Nanyang Technological University (SG)
- Corresponding author
- Huang, Wei
- Yu, Ting
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2017-09-14
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 543-543
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5599555
- OpenAlex
- W2754035931
- Cited by
- 145
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 17
- FWCI
- 6.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- DR-NTU (Nanyang Technological University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (16ZR1402500, BM2012010)
- Synergetic Innovation Center for Organic Electronics and Information Displays (61136003)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51173081, 2015CB932200, BM2012010, YX03001, IRT1148, 61136003)
- Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (2015CB932200, YX03001, IRT1148)
- Government of Jiangsu Province (BM2012010, YX03001)
- Ministry of Education, India
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (61136003, BM2012010, YX03001)
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (YX03001, IRT1148)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › 2D Materials and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Photonic and Optical Devices
- Keywords
- vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, two-dimensional semiconductors, monolayer WS2, room-temperature lasing, low-threshold lasing, distributed Bragg reflector, continuous-wave pumping, single-mode operation, monolithic integration
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