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We study the dynamic equilibrium between trions and excitons in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides in the presence of resident charge carriers and continuous photogeneration of excitons. We show that heating of the system via…
We analyse a device aimed at the conversion of heat into electrical energy, based on a closed cycle in which a distiller generates two solutions at different concentrations, and an electrochemical cell consumes the concentration difference,…
Exciton many-body interaction bear great implication for application in advanced photonic devices and quantum science and technology such as quantum computing, but the fundamental understanding about exciton many-body interaction is very…
Excitons are bosonic quasiparticles with a variety of applications in optoelectronics, photosyn thesis, and dissipationless informatics, and their lifetime can become sufficiently long to form a quantum condensate. While exciton…
We report a detailed ab-initio study of the of the microscopic degradation mechanism of FIrpic, a popular blue emitter in OLED devices. We simulate the \emph{operando} conditions of FIrpic by adding an electron-hole pair (exciton) to the…
The photoinduced excited-state dynamics of the keto and enol forms of cytosine is investigated using ab initio surface hopping in order to understand the outcome of molecular beam femtosecond pump-probe photoionization spectroscopy…
We propose a system of highly efficient photoemitters comprising metal-dielectric (plasmonic-excitonic) multilayered structures. In the proposed structure, the absorption in the excitonic layer is greatly enhanced through quantum…
While various excitonic insulators have been studied in the literature, due to the perceived too-small spin splitting, spin-triplet excitonic insulator is rare. In two-dimensional systems such as a graphone, however, it is possible, as…
In this paper, we present experimental results and numerical simulations of trident production, $e^-\rightarrow e^-e^+e^-$, in a strong electromagnetic field. The experiment was conducted at CERN for the purpose of probing the strong-field…
Two-dimensional semiconductors exhibit pronounced many-body effects and intense optical responses due to strong coulombic interactions. Consequently, subtle differences in photoexcitation conditions can strongly influence how the material…
Excitons are electron-hole pairs appearing below the band gap in insulators and semiconductors. They are vital to photovoltaics, but are hard to obtain with time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT), since most standard…
Multiple exciton generation is a process in which more than one electron hole pair is generated per absorbed photon. It allows us to increase the efficiency of solar energy harvesting. Experimental studies have shown the multiple exciton…
An excitonic insulator phase is expected to arise from the spontaneous formation of electron-hole pairs (excitons) in semiconductors where the exciton binding energy exceeds the size of the electronic band gap. At low temperature, these…
Photoexcited electron-hole pairs (excitons) in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) experience an effective force when these materials are non-uniformly strained. In the case of strain produced by a sharp tip pressing at the center of a…
The efficiency of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) depends on the microscopic orientation of transition dipole moments of the molecular emitters. The most effective materials used for light generation have threefold symmetry, which…
The excitonic insulator is an elusive electronic phase exhibiting a correlated excitonic ground state. Materials with such a phase are expected to have intriguing properties such as excitonic high-temperature superconductivity. However,…
Experimental investigations of magnetic field dependent kinetics of singlet fission (SF)processes in some organic semiconductors [i.e. splitting of excited singlet (S_1) state into a triplet exciton pair] have revealed the important…
Singlet fission (SF) is a multi-exciton generation process that could be harnessed to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic devices. Experimentally, systems derived from the pentacene molecule have been shown to exhibit ultrafast SF with…
We theoretically predict that a true bilayer exciton condensate,characterised by off-diagonal long range order and global phase coherence, can be created in one-dimensional solid state electron systems. The mechanism by which this happens…
Radiationless deactivation channels of 2-thiocytosine in aqueous environment are revisited by means of quantum-chemical simulations of excited-state absorption spectra, and investigations of potential energy surfaces of the chromophore…