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The optical properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are dominated by Coulomb bound quasi-particles, such as excitons, trions, and biexcitons. Due to the number and density of possible states, attributing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Mitchell Conway , Jack Muir , Stuart Earl , Matthias Wurdack , Rishabh Mishra , Jonathan Tollerud , Jeffrey Davis

We have performed a comprehensive first-principles study of the electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers MX2/MoS2 (M = Mo, Cr, W, Fe, V; X = S, Se). For M = Mo, Cr, W;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Ning Lu , Hongyan Guo , Lei Li , Jun Dai , Lu Wang , Wai-Ning Mei , Xiaojun Wu , Xiao Cheng Zeng

Delamination of thin films from the supportive substrates is critical issues in thin film industry and technology. The emergent two-dimensional materials, atomic layered materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides are highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Thuc Hue Ly , Seok Joon Yun , Quoc Huy Thi , Jiong Zhao

Excitons govern the light-matter interaction in 2D gapped materials with intrinsically large binding energies. In spite of plentiful optical measurements in the visible for semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides, we still lack…

We propose that excitons in moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers offer a promising platform for investigating collective radiative properties. While some of these optical properties resemble those of cold atom arrays, moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Tsung-Sheng Huang , Yu-Xin Wang , Yan-Qi Wang , Darrick Chang , Mohammad Hafezi , Andrey Grankin

Structural defects in 2D-transition metal dichalcogenides are critical in modulating their optical and electrical behavior. Nevertheless, precise defect control within the monolayer regime poses a significant challenge. Herein, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Anagha Gopinath , Faiha Mujeeb , Subhabrata Dhar , Jyoti Mohanty

Excitons play an essential role in the optical response of two-dimensional materials. These are bound states showing up in the band gaps of many-body systems and are conceived as quasiparticles formed by an electron and a hole. By…

Transition metal dichalcogenides, a family of two-dimensional compounds, are of interest for a range of technological applications. MoS2, the most researched member of this family, is hexagonal, from which monolayers may be isolated. Under…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-24 James Ramsey , Faiza Alhamed , Jonathan P. Goss , Patrick R. Briddon , Mark J. Rayson

The optical spectra of two dimensional (2D) materials exhibit sharp absorption peaks that are commonly identified with exciton and trions (or charged excitons). In this paper, we show that excitons and trions in doped 2D materials can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Farhan Rana , Okan Koksal , Christina Manolatou

Excitons are vital in the photophysics of materials, especially in low-dimensional systems. The conceptual and quantitative understanding of excitonic effects in nonlinear optical (NLO) processes is more challenging compared to linear ones.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-26 Jiawei Ruan , Y. -H. Chan , Steven G. Louie

Excitons in MoS2 dominate the absorption and emission properties of the two-dimensional system. Here, we study the microscopic origin of the electroluminescence from monolayer MoS2 fabricated on a heavily p-type doped silicon substrate. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yu Ye , Ziliang Ye , Majid Gharghi , Hanyu Zhu , Mervin Zhao , Xiaobo Yin , Xiang Zhang

Monolayers (MLs) of MoS2 and WSe2 are 2D semiconductors with strong, direct optical transitions that are governed by tightly Coulomb bound eletron-hole pairs (excitons). The optoelectronic properties of these transition metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-06 G. Wang , X. Marie , I. Gerber , T. Amand , D. Lagarde , L. Bouet , M. Vidal , A. Balocchi , B. Urbaszek

We present a generalized hydrogen model for the binding energies ($E_B$) of excitons in two-dimensional (2D) materials that sheds light on the fundamental differences between excitons in two and three dimensions. In contrast to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Thomas Olsen , Simone Latini , Filip Rasmussen , Kristian S. Thygesen

Several layered transition metal borides can now be realized by a simple and general fabrication method [Fokwa et al.,Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1704181],inspiring our interest to transition metal borides monolayer. Here, we predict a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-05 Yipeng An , Shijing Gong , Yusheng Hou , Jie Li , Ruqian Wu , Zhaoyong Jiao , Tianxing Wang , Jutao Jiao

We show how the excitonic features of biaxial MoS2 flakes are very sensitive to biaxial strain. We find a lower bound for the gauge factors of the A exciton and B exciton of (-41 +- 2) meV/% and (-45 +- 2) meV/% respectively, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Felix Carrascoso , Der-Yuh Lin , Riccardo Frisenda , Andres Castellanos-Gomez

This letter reports a time resolved pump-probe reflectance spectroscopic study on moir\'e excitons in a twisted monolayer WS2/WSe2 heterostructure. By probing at the resonant energies of intralayer excitons, we observed their distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Feng Kai , Xiong Wang , Yiqin Xie , Yuhui Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Cui

The two-dimensional semiconductor MoS2 in its mono- and few-layer form is expected to have a significant exciton binding energy of several 100 meV, leading to the consensus that excitons are the primary photoexcited species. Nevertheless,…

Atomically thin two dimensional (2D) layered materials have emerged as a new class of material for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) due to their extraordinary mechanical properties and ultralow mass density. Among them, graphene has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Samanta , P. R. Yasasvi Gangavarapu , A. K. Naik

The optical properties of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are dominated by both neutral excitons (electron-hole pairs) and charged excitons (trions) that are stable even at room temperature. While trions directly influence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Kai Hao , Lixiang Xu , Philipp Nagler , Akshay Singh , Kha Tran , Chandriker Kavir Dass , Christian Schüller , Tobias Korn , Xiaoqin Li , Galan Moody

We explore the electronic structure, orbital character and topological aspect of a monolayer MoS$_2$ nanoribbon using tight-binding (TB) and low-energy (${\bm k}\cdot{\bm p} $) models. We obtain a mid-gap edge mode in the zigzag ribbon of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Habib Rostami , Reza Asgari , Francisco Guinea