{"id":96747,"date":"2019-09-27T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T21:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/physicists-score-double-hit-in-led-research"},"modified":"2019-09-27T14:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T21:42:25","slug":"physicists-score-double-hit-in-led-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/physicists-score-double-hit-in-led-research","title":{"rendered":"Physicists score double hit in LED research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-score-double-hit-in-led-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In two breakthroughs in the realm of photonics, City College of New York graduate researchers are reporting the successful demonstration of an LED (light-emitting diode) based on half-light half-matter quasiparticles in atomically thin materials. This is also the first successful test of an electrically driven light emitter using atomically thin semiconductors embedded in a light trapping structure (optical cavity).<\/p>\n<p>The research is led by graduate physics student Jie Gu and post-doctoral fellow Biswanath Chakraborty, in collaboration with another <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graduate+student\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graduate student<\/a>, Mandeep Khatoniyar.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vinod Menon, chair of physics in City College\u2019s Division of Science and the research team\u2019s mentor, their double feat, reported in the journal <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i>, marks an important milestone in the field of 2-D materials and, more broadly, LEDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two breakthroughs in the realm of photonics, City College of New York graduate researchers are reporting the successful demonstration of an LED (light-emitting diode) based on half-light half-matter quasiparticles in atomically thin materials. This is also the first successful test of an electrically driven light emitter using atomically thin semiconductors embedded in a light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}