Toward Single Atom Chains with Exfoliated Tellurium

Toward Single Atom Chains with Exfoliated Tellurium

We demonstrate that the atom chain structure of Te allows it to be exfoliated as ultra-thin flakes and nanowires. Atomic force microscopy of exfoliated Te shows that thicknesses of 1-2 nm and widths below 100 nm can be exfoliated with this method. The Raman modes of exfoliated Te match those of bulk Te, with a slight shift (4 cm-1) due to a hardening of the A1 and E modes. Polarized Raman spect...

Growing catenated nitrogen atom chains.

Within the field of materials science, high-nitrogen compounds represent an important class of energetic materials. As a result of the existence of a large number of inherently energetic N N or N=N bonds within the molecules, highnitrogen compounds possess very high positive heats of formation, thereby making them intrinsically high-energy materials. The energy of most compounds with high-nitro...

Single Atom and Two Atom Ramsey Interferometry with Quantized Fields

Implications of field quantization on Ramsey interferometry are discussed and general conditions for the occurrence of interference are obtained. Interferences do not occur if the fields in two Ramsey zones have precise number of photons. However in this case it is shown how an analog of Hanbury-Brown Twiss photon-photon correlation interferometry can be used to discern a variety of interferenc...

Tellurium and tellurium compounds

Single photon emitters in exfoliated WSe2 structures.

Crystal structure imperfections in solids often act as efficient carrier trapping centres, which, when suitably isolated, act as sources of single photon emission. The best known examples of such attractive imperfections are well-width or composition fluctuations in semiconductor heterostructures (resulting in the formation of quantum dots) and coloured centres in wide-bandgap materials such as...