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Light emission from a hybrid plasmonic-excitonic STM tunneling junction

Renaud Pechou, Estefania Alves, Roland Coratger

    Optics Express
    |July 30, 2025
    PubMed
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    This study explores light emission in a Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) nanojunction. It reveals hybrid plasmonic-excitonic light emission from transition metal dichalcogenide quantum wells, dependent on tunneling parameters.

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