Valleytronics: opportunities, challenges, and paths forward

SA Vitale, D Nezich, JO Varghese, P Kim, N Gedik… - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A lack of inversion symmetry coupled with the presence of time‐reversal symmetry endows
2D transition metal dichalcogenides with individually addressable valleys in momentum …

Optical properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides: observations and puzzles

M Koperski, MR Molas, A Arora, K Nogajewski… - …, 2017 - degruyter.com
Recent results on the optical properties of monolayer and few layers of semiconducting
transition metal dichalcogenides are reviewed. Experimental observations are presented …

Deterministic strain-induced arrays of quantum emitters in a two-dimensional semiconductor

A Branny, S Kumar, R Proux, BD Gerardot - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
An outstanding challenge in quantum photonics is scalability, which requires positioning of
single quantum emitters in a deterministic fashion. Site positioning progress has been made …

Strain-induced half-valley metals and topological phase transitions in monolayers

H Huan, Y Xue, B Zhao, G Gao, H Bao, Z Yang - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The target of valleytronics developments is to manipulate the valley degree of freedom and
utilize it in microelectronics as charge and spin degrees of freedom. Based on first-principles …

Brightening of dark excitons in monolayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides

MR Molas, C Faugeras, AO Slobodeniuk… - 2D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present low-temperature magneto-photoluminescence experiments which demonstrate
the brightening of dark excitons by an in-plane magnetic field B applied to monolayers of …

Nanophotonics with 2D transition metal dichalcogenides

A Krasnok, S Lepeshov, A Alú - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently
become attractive materials for several optoelectronic applications, such as photodetection …

Control of the exciton radiative lifetime in van der Waals heterostructures

HH Fang, B Han, C Robert, MA Semina, D Lagarde… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Optical properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides are controlled by robust
excitons characterized by a very large oscillator strengths. Encapsulation of monolayers …

Radiatively Limited Dephasing and Exciton Dynamics in MoSe2 Monolayers Revealed with Four-Wave Mixing Microscopy

T Jakubczyk, V Delmonte, M Koperski… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
By implementing four-wave mixing (FWM) microspectroscopy, we measure coherence and
population dynamics of the exciton transitions in monolayers of MoSe2. We reveal their …

Valley manipulation in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides and their hybrid systems: status and challenges

S Zhao, X Li, B Dong, H Wang, H Wang… - Reports on Progress …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, the emerging conceptual valley-related devices have attracted much attention due
to the progress on generating, controlling, and detecting the valley degree of freedom in the …

Exciton and trion dynamics in atomically thin and : Effect of localization

T Godde, D Schmidt, J Schmutzler, M Aßmann… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We present a detailed investigation of the exciton and trion dynamics in naturally doped
MoSe 2 and WSe 2 single atomic layers as a function of temperature in the range 10–300 K …