Description
Nanographenes synthesized by bottom-up chemistry are tunable emitters with promises in optoelectronic and quantum technologies. Recent investigations have classified them as stable and bright single-photon sources [1-4]. The next step towards using nanographenes as quantum emitters is to reach a lifetime-limited linewidth. Inspired by pioneering works on small organic molecules [6], we designed a new guest-host system to decouple the nanographene from its local environment [7]. In addition, we also test hBN as a substrate for Nanographenes. This presentation will showcase our recent results on the low-temperature spectroscopy of new nanographenes [5], either embedded in a novel molecular crystal host [7] or deposited on hBN [8].
References
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[2] S. Zhao et al, Nature Communications, 9, 3470 (2018)
[3] T. Liu et al, Nanoscale, 14, 3826 – 3833 (2022)
[4] T. Liu et al, Journal of Chemical Physics 156, 104302 (2022)
[5] D. Medina-Lopez et al, Nature Communications 14, 4728 (2023)
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[7] Huynh Thanh Trung et al, in preparation
[8] S. Sarkar et al, in preparation
