Emma Simmerman

All Publications

• Controlling Valley-Specific Light Emission from Monolayer MoS2 with Achiral Dielectric Metasurfaces. Nano letters Liu, Y., Lau, S. C., Cheng, W., Johnson, A., Li, Q., Simmerman, E., Karni, O., Hu, J., Liu, F., Brongersma, M. L., Heinz, T. F., Dionne, J. A. 2023

  Abstract

  Excitons in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides have a valley degree of freedom that can be optically manipulated for quantum information processing. Here, we integrate MoS2 monolayers with achiral silicon disk array metasurfaces to enhance and control valley-specific absorption and emission. Through the coupling to the metasurface electric and magnetic Mie modes, the intensity and lifetime of the emission of neutral excitons, trions, and defect bound excitons can be enhanced and shortened, respectively, while the spectral shape can be modified. Additionally, the degree of polarization (DOP) of exciton and trion emission from the valley can be symmetrically enhanced at 100 K. The DOP increase is attributed to both the metasurface-enhanced chiral absorption of light and the metasurface-enhanced exciton emission from the Purcell effect. Combining Si-compatible photonic design with large-scale 2D materials integration, our work makes an important step toward on-chip valleytronic applications approaching room-temperature operation.

  View details for DOI 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01630

  View details for PubMedID 37347949

• Characterizing dark state kinetics and single molecule fluorescence of FusionRed and FusionRed-MQ at low irradiances. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP Mukherjee, S., Thomas, C., Wilson, R., Simmerman, E., Hung, S., Jimenez, R. 2022

  Abstract

  The presence of dark states causes fluorescence intermittency of single molecules due to transitions between "on" and "off" states. Genetically encodable markers such as fluorescent proteins (FPs) exhibit dark states that make several super-resolved single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) methods possible. However, studies quantifying the timescales and nature of dark state behavior for commonly used FPs under conditions typical of widefield and total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy remain scarce and pre-date many new SMLM techniques. FusionRed is a relatively bright red FP exhibiting fluorescence intermittency and has thus been identified as a potential candidate for SMLM. We herein characterize the rates for dark-state conversion and the subsequent ground-state recovery of FusionRed and its 2.5-fold brighter descendent FusionRed L175M M42Q (FusionRed-MQ) at low irradiances (1-10 W cm-2), which were previously unexplored experimental conditions. We characterized the kinetics of dark state transitions in these two FPs by using single molecule blinking and ensemble photobleaching experiments bridged with a dark state kinetic model. We find that at low irradiances, the recovery process to the ground state is minimally light-driven and FusionRed-MQ has a 1.3-fold longer ground state recovery time indicating a conformationally restricted dark-state chromophore in comparison to FusionRed. Our studies indicate that the brighter FusionRed-MQ variant exhibits higher dark state conversion rates with longer ground state recovery lifetimes, thus it is potentially a better candidate for SMLM applications than its progenitor FusionRed.

  View details for DOI 10.1039/d2cp00889k

  View details for PubMedID 35642612

• Reconfigurable Quantum Local Area Network Over Deployed Fiber PRX QUANTUM Alshowkan, M., Williams, B. P., Evans, P. G., Rao, N. S., Simmerman, E. M., Lu, H., Lingaraju, N. B., Weiner, A. M., Marvinney, C. E., Pai, Y., Lawrie, B. J., Peters, N. A., Lukens, J. M. 2021; 2 (4)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.040304

  View details for Web of Science ID 000705671400001

• A Reconfigurable Quantum Local Area Network Over Deployed Fiber Alshowkan, M., Williams, B. P., Evans, P. G., Rao, N. S., Simmerman, E. M., Lu, H., Lingaraju, N. B., Weiner, A. M., Peters, N. A., Lukens, J. M., IEEE IEEE. 2021

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• Remote State Preparation in a Reconfigurable Quantum Local Area Network Alshowkan, M., Williams, B. P., Evans, P. G., Rao, N. S., Simmerman, E. M., Lingaraju, N. B., Lu, H., Weiner, A. M., Marvinney, C. E., Pai, Y., Lawrie, B. J., Peters, N. A., Lukens, J. M., IEEE IEEE. 2021

  View details for DOI 10.1109/IPC48725.2021.9593052

  View details for Web of Science ID 000866488100210