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Exciton optical transitions in transition-metal dichalcogenides offer unique opportunities to study rich many-body physics. Recent experiments in monolayer WSe$_2$ and WS$_2$ have shown that while the low-temperature photoluminescence from…
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The photoluminescence spectra of spherical CdTe nanocrystals with zincblende structure are studied by size-selective spectroscopic techniques. We observe a resonant Stokes shift of 15 meV when the excitation laser energy is tuned to the red…
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We present first-principles calculations of the optical response of monolayer molybdenum disulfide employing the GW-Bethe Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) approach including self-energy, excitonic, and electron-phonon effects. We show that…
We present a theory of polarized photoluminescence of triplet excitons in semiconductor nanocrystal ensembles with the random fine structure contributed by the electron-hole exchange and carrier-nuclear hyperfine interactions. The…
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The effect of quantum confinement in the optical absorption spectra of atomically thin {\alpha}-In2Se3 crystals is studied, observing a huge thickness-dependent shift in the optical band gap of exfoliated {\alpha}-In2Se3 flakes. The band…