Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), with its exceptional sensitivity to both
the binding energy and the momentum of valence electrons in solids, provides unparalleled …

Abstract Interlayer excitons (ILXs)—electron–hole pairs bound across two atomically thin
layered semiconductors—have emerged as attractive platforms to study exciton …

The dielectric function of silver is a fundamental quantity related to its electronic structure
and describes its optical properties. However, results published over the past six decades …

Integrating plasmonic nanoparticles with semiconductor substrates introduces strong optical
resonances that extend and enhance the spectrum of photocatalytic and photovoltaic …

In the 60 years since the invention of the laser, the scientific community has developed
numerous fields of research based on these bright, coherent light sources, including the …

The exciton, a bound state of an electron and a hole, is a fundamental quasiparticle induced
by coherent light–matter interactions in semiconductors. When the electrons and holes are …

An exciton, a two-body composite quasiparticle formed of an electron and hole, is a
fundamental optical excitation in condensed matter systems. Since its discovery nearly a …

The exciton is one of the most crucial physical entities in the performance of optoelectronic
and photonic devices, and widely varying exciton binding energies have been reported in …

This review reports on experimental and theoretical results on the inelastic decay of optically
excited volume electrons in different types of metals, including simple metals (Al), noble …