This Review focuses on the integration of plasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces with
emissive or stimuli-responsive materials for manipulating light–matter interactions at the …

The exciton, an excited electron–hole pair bound by Coulomb attraction, plays a key role in
photophysics of organic molecules and drives practically important phenomena such as …

The use of Raman spectroscopy for carbon nanotube applications is presented here as a
tutorial review. After introducing the relevant basic aspects of Raman spectroscopy of …

It is possible to modify the chemical and physical properties of molecules, not only through
chemical modifications but also by coupling molecules strongly to light. More intriguingly …

Hexagonal boron nitride is a wide bandgap semiconductor with very high thermal and
chemical stability that is used in devices operating under extreme conditions. The growth of …

Exciton binding energy and excited states in monolayers of tungsten diselenide (WSe 2) are
investigated using the combined linear absorption and two-photon photoluminescence …

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers have recently emerged as an
important class of two-dimensional semiconductors with potential for electronic and …

The optical properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) feature
prominent excitonic natures. Here we report an experimental approach to measuring the …

This paper reviews progress that has been made in the use of Raman spectroscopy to study
graphene and carbon nanotubes. These are two nanostructured forms of sp2 carbon …

Raman spectroscopy is the inelastic scattering of light by matter. Being highly sensitive to
the physical and chemical properties of materials, as well as to environmental effects that …