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Nanolasers

Lasing from 2D atomic crystals

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The coupling of monolayer tungsten diselenide and a photonic-crystal cavity leads to ultralow-threshold lasing.

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Figure 1: Schematic of a 2D semiconductor nanolaser, consisting of a monolayer of WSe2 on top of a photonic crystal.
Figure 2: Characteristics of a 2D semiconductor nanolaser.

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  1. Vinod Menon is in the Department of Physics, City College & Graduate Centre, City University of New York, New York, New York 10031, USA,

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Menon, V. Lasing from 2D atomic crystals. Nature Mater 14, 370–371 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4255

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