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Increasing Light Extraction Using UV Curable SILs

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Enhancing the Light Output of Solid-State Emitters

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This chapter describes how a liquid based solid immersion lens (SIL) made from UV curable epoxy can be used to enhance the light output of a 2D material. The epoxy SIL described fully encapsulates the monolayer helping to prevent physical damage and degradation in air. Micro-photoluminescence results show a large intensity increase from a monolayer of tungsten diselenide (WSe2) combined with an increase in imaging resolution.

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Woodhead, C. (2018). Increasing Light Extraction Using UV Curable SILs. In: Enhancing the Light Output of Solid-State Emitters. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95013-6_6

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