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 …

Many‐body complexes in 2D semiconductors

J Pei, J Yang, T Yildirim, H Zhang, Y Lu - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and black
phosphorus (BP) are currently attracting great attention due to their intrinsic bandgaps and …

Intrinsic homogeneous linewidth and broadening mechanisms of excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

G Moody, C Kavir Dass, K Hao, CH Chen, LJ Li… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The band-edge optical response of transition metal dichalcogenides, an emerging class of
atomically thin semiconductors, is dominated by tightly bound excitons localized at the …

Exciton radiative lifetime in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

C Robert, D Lagarde, F Cadiz, G Wang, B Lassagne… - Physical review B, 2016 - APS
We have investigated the exciton dynamics in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers
using time-resolved photoluminescence experiments performed with optimized time …

Population inversion and giant bandgap renormalization in atomically thin WS2 layers

A Chernikov, C Ruppert, HM Hill, AF Rigosi… - Nature Photonics, 2015 - nature.com
Control of the optical properties of matter on ultrashort timescales is of both fundamental
interest and central importance for applications in photonics. It is desirable to achieve …

Electrical Tuning of Exciton Binding Energies in Monolayer

A Chernikov, AM Van Der Zande, HM Hill, AF Rigosi… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We demonstrate continuous tuning of the exciton binding energy in monolayer WS 2 by
means of an externally applied voltage in a field-effect transistor device. Using optical …

Valley dynamics probed through charged and neutral exciton emission in monolayer

G Wang, L Bouet, D Lagarde, M Vidal, A Balocchi… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Optical interband transitions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides such as WSe 2
and MoS 2 are governed by chiral selection rules. This allows efficient optical initialization of …

Binding energies of exciton complexes in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers and effect of dielectric environment

I Kylänpää, HP Komsa - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Excitons, trions, biexcitons, and exciton-trion complexes in two-dimensional transition metal
dichalcogenide sheets of MoS 2, MoSe 2, MoTe 2, WS 2, and WSe 2 are studied by means …

Long-lived nanosecond spin relaxation and spin coherence of electrons in monolayer MoS2 and WS2

L Yang, NA Sinitsyn, W Chen, J Yuan, J Zhang, J Lou… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
The recently discovered monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) provide a
fertile playground to explore new coupled spin–valley physics,,. Although robust spin and …

Trion formation dynamics in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

A Singh, G Moody, K Tran, ME Scott, V Overbeck… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We report charged exciton (trion) formation dynamics in doped monolayer transition metal
dichalcogenides, specifically molybdenum diselenide (MoS e 2), using resonant two-color …