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Deterministic and replaceable transfer of silver flakes for microcavities

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How to fabricate high-quality microcavities simply and at low cost without causing damage to environmentally sensitive active layers such as perovskites are crucial for the studies of exciton-polaritons, however, it remains challenging in the field of microcavity fabrication. Usually, once the top mirror is deposited, the detuning of the microcavity is fixed and there is no easy way to tune it. Here, we have developed a method for deterministically transferring silver mirrors, which is relatively simple and guarantees the active layer from damaging of high temperature, particle bombardment, etc., during the deposition of the top mirror. Furthermore, with the help of a glass probe, we demonstrate a replaceable silver transfer method to tune the detuning of the microcavity, thereby changing the coupling of photons and excitons therein. The developed deterministic and replaceable silver mirror transfer methods will provide the capability to fabricate high-quality and tunable microcavities and play an active role in the development of the exciton-polariton field.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61875001) and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. JQ21018). W. B. acknowledge support from National Science Foundation (Award No. DMR-2143041). T. T. acknowledges support from the JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Nos. 19H05790 and 20H00354) and A3 Foresight by JSPS.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Tingting Wang, Zhihao Zang, Yuchen Gao & Yu Ye

  2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, 100871, China

    Tingting Wang & Yu Ye

  3. Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan

    Kenji Watanabe

  4. International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan

    Takashi Taniguchi

  5. Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 68588, USA

    Wei Bao

  6. Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Peking University, Nantong, 226010, China

    Yu Ye

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Wang, T., Zang, Z., Gao, Y. et al. Deterministic and replaceable transfer of silver flakes for microcavities. Front. Phys. 18, 33302 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-022-1229-3

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