Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics

M Kang, T Liu, CT Chan, M **ao - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their
interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counterintuitive …

Exciton physics and device application of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors

T Mueller, E Malic - npj 2D Materials and Applications, 2018 - nature.com
Two-dimensional group-VI transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, such as MoS2,
WSe2, and others, exhibit strong light-matter coupling and possess direct band gaps in the …

Light–matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles

N Rivera, I Kaminer - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Interactions between light and matter play an instrumental role in spectroscopy, sensing,
quantum information processing and lasers. In most of these applications, light is considered …

Colloquium: Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides

G Wang, A Chernikov, MM Glazov, TF Heinz… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality …

Enhanced light–matter interaction in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

L Huang, A Krasnok, A Alú, Y Yu… - Reports on Progress …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials, such as
MoS 2, WS 2, MoSe 2, and WSe 2, have received extensive attention in the past decade due …

Light–valley interactions in 2D semiconductors

KF Mak, D **ao, J Shan - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
The emergence of two-dimensional Dirac materials, particularly transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs), has reinvigorated interest in valleytronics, which utilizes the …

Electrical control of interlayer exciton dynamics in atomically thin heterostructures

LA Jauregui, AY Joe, K Pistunova, DS Wild, AA High… - Science, 2019 - science.org
A van der Waals heterostructure built from atomically thin semiconducting transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) enables the formation of excitons from electrons and holes in …

Experimental Evidence for Dark Excitons in Monolayer

XX Zhang, Y You, SYF Zhao, TF Heinz - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
Transition metal dichalcogenides in the class MX 2 (M= Mo, W; X= S, Se) have been
identified as direct-gap semiconductors in the monolayer limit. Here, we examine light …

Optical Properties of 2D Semiconductor WS2

C Cong, J Shang, Y Wang, T Yu - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D semiconductor tungsten disulfide (WS2) attracts significant interest in both
fundamental physics and many promising applications such as light emitters …

Magnetic brightening and control of dark excitons in monolayer WSe2

XX Zhang, T Cao, Z Lu, YC Lin, F Zhang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide crystals, as direct-gap materials with strong light–
matter interactions, have attracted much recent attention. Because of their spin-polarized …