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Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMdC) are promising candidates for realization of a new generation of optoelectronic devices. The optical properties of these two-dimensional materials, however, vary from flake to flake, or…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-22 Pavel V. Kolesnichenko , Qianhui Zhang , Changxi Zheng , Michael S. Fuhrer , Jeffrey A. Davis

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host tightly bound quasi-particles called excitons. Based on spin and momentum selection rules, these excitons can be either optically bright or dark. In tungsten-based TMDs, momentum-forbidden dark…

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…

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 spectra of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers are dominated by excitons and trions. Here we establish the dependences of these optical transitions on disorder from hyperspectral imaging of h-BN encapsulated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Jue Wang , Christina Manolatou , Yusong Bai , James Hone , Farhan Rana , Xiaoyang Zhu

Several monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct band gap semiconductors and potentially efficient emitters in light emitting devices. Photons are emitted when strongly bound excitons decay radiatively, and accurate…

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) host a variety of strongly bound exciton complexes that control the optical properties in these materials. Apart from spin and valley, layer index provides an additional degree of freedom in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Sarthak Das , Garima Gupta , Kausik Majumdar

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

We have proposed the superfluidity of dipolar excitons in a strip of double-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) heterostructures. We have shown that strain causes a shift in k-space between the minimum of the conduction band and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Gabriel Pimenta Martins , Oleg L. Berman , Godfrey Gumbs , Gabriele Grosso

We investigate the optical properties of interlayer excitons in heterobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides where moir\'e pattern is introduced by heterostrain, in comparison with that introduced by twisting (and/or lattice mismatch).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Huiyuan Zheng , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

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

Quantum conductance calculations on the mechanically deformed monolayers of MoS$_2$ and WS$_2$ were performed using the non-equlibrium Green's functions method combined with the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker approach for ballistic transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-04 Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl , Stefano Borini , Agnieszka Kuc , Thomas Heine

The optical properties of two-dimensional materials can be effectively tuned by strain induced from a deformable substrate. In the present work we combine first-principles calculations based on density functional theory and the effective…

Dark excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) have been so far neglected in the context of polariton physics due to their lack of oscillator strength. However, in tungsten-based TMDs, dark excitons are known to be the…

We study theoretically effects of an anisotropic elastic strain on the exciton energy spectrum fine structure and optical selection rules in atom-thin crystals based on transition-metal dichalcogenides. The presence of strain breaks the…

Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct-gap semiconductors with strong light-matter and Coulomb interaction. The latter accounts for tightly bound excitons, which dominate the optical properties of these…

Strain engineering in single-layer semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides aims to tune their bandgap energy and to modify their optoelectronic properties by the application of external strain. In this paper we study transition…

The predicted formation of moire superlattices leading to confined excitonic states in heterostructures formed by stacking two lattice mismatched transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers was recently experimentally confirmed. Such…

Two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising for optoelectronic applications due to their strongly bound excitons. While bright excitons have been thoroughly scrutinized, dark excitons are much less…

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