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Penghui Yin1, Yi Tan1, Hanbing Fang1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Nature Nanotechnology
|April 25, 2018
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Researchers demonstrate robust electron polarization in semiconductor nanocrystals by coupling magnetoplasmonic modes with excitons. This breakthrough enables dynamic control of carrier polarization at room temperature for advanced quantum devices.

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