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The equilibrium and non-equilibrium optical properties of single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are determined by strongly bound excitons. Exciton relaxation dynamics in TMDs have been extensively studied by time-domain…

Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold promising potential for applications in optoelectronics. Due to their direct band gap and the extraordinarily strong Coulomb interaction, TMDs exhibit efficient light-matter…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-23 Maja Feierabend , Ermin Malic , Andreas Knorr , Gunnar Berghäuser

Exciton dissociation plays a crucial role in the performance of optoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In this work, we investigate the effect of an in-plane electric field on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-11 Tao Zhu , Chenhang Zheng , Lei Xu , Ming Yang

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) crystals, as direct-gap materials with unusually strong light-matter interaction, have attracted much recent attention. In contrast to the initial understanding, the minima of the conduction…

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors provide a unique possibility to access the electronic valley degree of freedom using polarized light, opening the way to valley information transfer between distant…

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayer has recently emerged as an important two-dimensional semiconductor with promising potentials for electronic and optoelectronic devices. Unlike semi-metallic graphene, layered TMDC has a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Ziliang Ye , Ting Cao , Kevin O'Brien , Hanyu Zhu , Xiaobo Yin , Yuan Wang , Steven G. Louie , Xiang Zhang

Using an equation of motion (EOM) approach, we calculate excitonic properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) perturbed by an external magnetic field. We compare our findings to the widely used Wannier model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Have , G. Catarina , T. G. Pedersen , N. M. R. Peres

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (1L-TMDs) have tremendous potential as atomically thin, direct bandgap semiconductors that can be used as convenient building blocks for quantum photonic devices. However, the short exciton…

Single layers of transition metal dichalcogenides are two-dimensional direct bandgap semiconductors with degenerate, but inequivalent, `valleys' in the electronic structure that can be selectively excited by polarized light. Coherent…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-21 Yen-Jung Chen , Jeffrey D. Cain , Teodor K. Stanev , Vinayak P. Dravid , Nathaniel P. Stern

Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a platform for realizing Wigner crystals and enable their detection via exciton spectroscopy. We develop a microscopic theoretical model for excitons interacting with the localized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-22 Haydn S. Adlong , Eugen Dizer , Richard Schmidt , Atac Imamoglu , Arthur Christianen

Excitons dominate the optical properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Besides optically accessible bright exciton states, TMDs exhibit also a multitude of optically forbidden dark excitons. Here, we show that…

Two-dimensional group-VI transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, such as MoS2, WSe2 and others, exhibit strong light-matter coupling and possess direct band gaps in the infrared and visible spectral regimes, making them potentially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Thomas Mueller , Ermin Malic

Transition-metal dichalcogenides can be easily produced as atomically thin sheets, exhibiting the possibility to optically polarize and read out the valley pseudospin of extremely stable excitonic quasiparticles present in these 2D…

Excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors provide a novel platform for fundamental studies of many-body interactions. In particular, dipolar interactions between spatially indirect excitons may give rise to strongly correlated phases of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Rafał Ołdziejewski , Alessio Chiocchetta , Johannes Knörzer , Richard Schmidt

The strong excitonic effect in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors has enabled many fascinating light-matter interaction phenomena. Examples include strongly coupled exciton-polaritons and nearly perfect atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Hongchao Xie , Shengwei Jiang , Daniel A. Rhodes , James C. Hone , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Excitons, electron-hole pairs bound by the Coulomb potential, are fundamental quasiparticles of coherent light-matter interaction energizing processes from photosynthesis to optoelectronics. Excitons are observed in semiconductors, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Xuefeng Cui , Cong Wang , Adam Argondizzo , Sean Garrett-Roe , Branko Gumhalter , Hrvoje Petek

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers present a singular coupling in their spin and valley degrees of freedom. Moreover, by applying an external magnetic field it is possible to break the energy degeneracy between their K and…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a remarkable exciton physics including optically accessible (bright) as well as spin- and momentum-forbidden (dark) excitonic states. So far the dark exciton landscape has not been revealed…

The dependence of the excitonic photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) on the tilt angle of an applied magnetic field is studied. Starting from a four-band Hamiltonian we construct a theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 M. Van der Donck , M. Zarenia , F. M. Peeters

We analyze the dielectric-function spectra of low dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) using a fully analytical model of the complex dielectric function that is applicable in fractional dimensional space. We extract the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-04 A. Thilagam