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Recently, two-dimensional (2D) materials have opened a new paradigm for fundamental physics explorations and device applications. Unlike gapless graphene, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) has new optical functionalities for…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-23 Yu Ye , Zi Jing Wong , Xiufang Lu , Hanyu Zhu , Xianhui Chen , Yuan Wang , Xiang Zhang

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are layered materials that have a semiconducting phase with many advantageous optoelectronic properties, including tightly bound excitons and spin-valley locking. In Tungsten-based TMDs, spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Saroj B. Chand , John M. Woods , Enrique Mejia , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Gabriele Grosso

Scientific curiosity to uncover original optical properties and functionalities of atomically thin semiconductors, stemming from unusual Coulomb interactions in the two-dimensional geometry and multi-valley band structure, drives the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 T. Jakubczyk , K. Nogajewski , M. R. Molas , M. Bartos , W. Langbein , M. Potemski , J. Kasprzak

We develop a microscopic theory for excitons and cavity exciton polaritons in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers under a perpendicular static magnetic field. We obtain numerically exact solutions for the ground and excited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 D. de la Fuente Pico , J. Levinsen , E. Laird , M. M. Parish , F. M. Marchetti

The ultrathin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as promising materials for various applications using two dimensional (2D) semiconductors. They have attracted increasing attention due to their unique optical properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 Aïda Hichri , Imen Ben Amara , Sabrine Ayari , Sihem Jaziri

The remarkably strong Coulomb interaction in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) results in an extraordinarily rich many-particle physics including the formation of tightly bound excitons. Besides optically accessible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 Malte Selig , Gunnar Berghäuser , Marten Richter , Rudolf Bratschitsch , Andreas Knorr , Ermin Malic

The optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers are widely dominated by excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs. These quasi-particles exhibit giant oscillator strength and give rise to narrow-band, well-pronounced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Christian Schneider , Mikhail M. Glazov , Tobias Korn , Sven Höfling , Bernhard Urbaszek

Excitons in bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (2L-TMDs) are Coulomb-bound electron/hole pairs that can be viewed as broadly tunable analogs of atomic or molecular systems. Here, we study the properties of 2L-TMD excitons under strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 S. Kovalchuk , K. Greben , A. Kumar , S. Pessel , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Christiansen , M. Selig , A. Knorr , K. I. Bolotin

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the first truly two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor, providing an excellent platform to investigate light-matter interaction in the 2D limit. Apart from fundamental scientific…

When transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers lack inversion symmetry, their low-energy single particle spectrum can described by tilted massive Dirac Hamiltonians. The so-called Janus materials fall into that category. Inversion symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 M. F. C. Martins Quintela , A. T. Costa , N. M. R. Peres

A direct band gap, remarkable light-matter coupling as well as strong spin-orbit and Coulomb interaction establish two-dimensional (2D) crystals of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as an emerging material class for fundamental…

The rise of quantum science and technologies motivates photonics research to seek new platforms with strong light-matter interactions to facilitate quantum behaviors at moderate light intensities. One promising platform to reach such strong…

Exciton resonances in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide exceptionally strong light-matter interaction at room temperature. Their spectral line shape is critical in the design of a myriad of optoelectronic devices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Jorik van de Groep , Qitong Li , Jung-Hwan Song , Pieter G. Kik , Mark L. Brongersma

The optical properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) semiconductors are shaped by the emergence of correlated many-body complexes due to strong Coulomb interaction. Exceptional electron-hole exchange predestines…

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides feature Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) with exceptionally large binding energy and coupled spin and valley degrees of freedom. These unique attributes have been leveraged for…

The optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers such as the two-dimensional semiconductors MoS$_2$ and WSe$_2$ are dominated by excitons, Coulomb bound electron-hole pairs. The light emission yield depends on whether…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-23 J. P. Echeverry , B. Urbaszek , T. Amand , X. Marie , I. C. Gerber

Two-dimensional (2D) van-der-Waals materials are a promising platform for exciton state engineering. In this paper, we study the properties of excitons in 2D group VI transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors that are modified by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Jose M. Torres-Lopez , Sudipta Kundu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Tony Heinz , Allan H. MacDonald

Excitons in monolayer semiconductors have large optical transition dipole for strong coupling with light field. Interlayer excitons in heterobilayers, with layer separation of electron and hole components, feature large electric dipole that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Wei-Ting Hsu , Bo-Han Lin , Li-Syuan Lu , Ming-Hao Lee , Ming-Wen Chu , Lain-Jong Li , Wang Yao , Wen-Hao Chang , Chih-Kang Shih

Atomically thin group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently emerged as a new class of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with extraordinary properties including the direct band gap in the visible frequency range, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Gui-Bin Liu , Di Xiao , Yugui Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

Atomically thin crystals of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host excitons with strong binding energies and sizable light-matter interactions. Coupled to optical cavities, monolayer TMDs routinely reach the regime of strong…