We report polarization resolved photoluminescence from monolayer MoS2, a two-dimensional, non-centrosymmetric crystal with direct energy gaps at two different valleys in momentum space. The inherent chiral optical selectivity allows exciting one of these valleys and close to 90% polarized emission at 4K is observed with 40% polarization remaining at 300K. The high polarization degree of the emission remains unchanged in transverse magnetic fields up to 9T indicating robust, selective valley excitation.
@article{arxiv.1206.5128,
title = {Robust optical emission polarization in MoS2 monolayers through selective valley excitation},
author = {G. Sallen and L. Bouet and X. Marie and G. Wang and C. R. Zhu and W. P. Han and Y. Lu and P. H. Tan and T. Amand and B. L. Liu and B. Urbaszek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5128},
year = {2012}
}