Self-assembled single vacancies in a 2D transition metal dichalcogenide are used to fabricate atomically precise quantum antidots. The resulting antidots have tunable quantum hole states, which are robust to oxygen substitutional doping, and could have applications in quantum information and photocatalysis technologies.
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This is a summary of: Fang, H. et al. Atomically precise vacancy-assembled quantum antidots. Nat. Nanotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01495-z (2023).
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Using single vacancies to build quantum antidots with atomic precision. Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 1379–1380 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01506-z
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