Nonlinear optical characterization of 2D materials

L Zhou, H Fu, T Lv, C Wang, H Gao, D Li, L Deng… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Characterizing the physical and chemical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials is of
great significance for performance analysis and functional device applications. As a …

Exciton Lifetime and Optical Line Width Profile via Exciton–Phonon Interactions: Theory and First-Principles Calculations for Monolayer MoS2

Y Chan, JB Haber, MH Naik, JB Neaton, DY Qiu… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exciton dynamics dictates the evolution of photoexcited carriers in photovoltaic and
optoelectronic devices. However, interpreting their experimental signatures is a challenging …

Exciton-scattering-induced dephasing in two-dimensional semiconductors

F Katsch, M Selig, A Knorr - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Enhanced Coulomb interactions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides cause tightly
bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) that dominate their linear and nonlinear optical …

Theory of coherent phonons coupled to excitons

E Perfetto, K Wu, G Stefanucci - npj 2D Materials and Applications, 2024 - nature.com
The interaction of excitons with lattice vibrations underlies the scattering from bright to dark
excitons as well as the coherent modulation of the exciton energy. Unlike the former …

Intrinsic lifetime of higher excitonic states in tungsten diselenide monolayers

S Brem, J Zipfel, M Selig, A Raja, L Waldecker… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The reduced dielectric screening in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides allows
to study the hydrogen-like series of higher exciton states in optical spectra even at room …

Optically addressing exciton spin and pseudospin in nanomaterials for spintronics applications

D Lubert-Perquel, S Acharya… - ACS Applied Optical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Oriented exciton spins that can be generated and manipulated optically are of interest for a
range of applications, including spintronics, quantum information science, and …

Ultrafast Nanoimaging of Electronic Coherence of Monolayer WSe2

W Luo, BG Whetten, V Kravtsov, A Singh, Y Yang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have demonstrated a wide range of novel
photonic, optoelectronic, and correlated electron phenomena for more than a decade …

Phonon-Assisted Intervalley Scattering Determines Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in Bilayers

S Helmrich, K Sampson, D Huang, M Selig, K Hao… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
While valleys (energy extrema) are present in all band structures of solids, their preeminent
role in determining exciton resonances and dynamics in atomically thin transition metal …

Dephasing of Strong-Field-Driven Excitonic Autler-Townes Doublets Revealed by Time-and Spectrum-Resolved Quantum-Path Interferometry

Y Liu, B Zhu, S Jiang, S Huang, M Luo, S Zhang… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Understanding dephasing mechanisms of strong-field-driven excitons in condensed matter
is essential for their applications in quantum-state manipulation and ultrafast optical …

Ultrafast nano-imaging of dark excitons

D Schmitt, JP Bange, W Bennecke, G Meneghini… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Understanding the impact of spatial heterogeneity on the behaviour of two-dimensional
materials represents one of the grand challenges in applying these materials in …