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We have investigated the exciton dynamics in transition metal dichalcogenide mono-layers using time-resolved photoluminescence experiments performed with optimized time-resolution. For MoSe2 monolayers, we measure $\tau_{rad}=1.8\pm0.2$ ps…

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Integrating 2D materials into high-quality optical microcavities opens the door to fascinating many-particle phenomena including the formation of exciton-polaritons. These are hybrid quasi-particles inheriting properties of both the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Beatriz Ferreira , Roberto Rosati , Jamie M. Fitzgerald , Ermin Malic

Excitons in atomically-thin semiconductors necessarily lie close to a surface, and therefore their properties are expected to be strongly influenced by the surrounding dielectric environment. However, systematic studies exploring this role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-06 Andreas V. Stier , Nathan P. Wilson , Genevieve Clark , Xiaodong Xu , Scott A. Crooker

Photoluminescence spectra, shows that monolayer Transition-metal dichalcogenides (MLTMDCs), possess charged exciton binding energies, conspicuously similar to the energy of optical phonons. This enigmatic coincidence has offered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Sabrine Ayari , Sihem Jaziri , Robson Ferreira , Gerald Bastard

Transition metal dichalcogenides layered nano-crystals are emerging as promising candidates for next-generation optoelectronic and quantum devices. In such systems, the interaction between excitonic states and atomic vibrations is crucial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Jianbo Hu , Yang Xiang , Beatrice Matilde Ferrari , Emilio Scalise , Giovanni Maria Vanacore

Phonon-assisted photoluminescence (PL) in molybdenum-based two-dimensional dichalcogenides is typically weak due to the dormant phonon coupling with optically inactive momentum-dark (intervalley) excitons, unlike in tungsten-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-01 Rishabh Saraswat , Rekha Verma , Sitangshu Bhattacharya

Understanding exciton thermalization is critical for optimizing optoelectronic and photocatalytic processes in many materials. However, it is hard to access the dynamics of such processes experimentally, especially on systems such as…

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

In this paper we study the phonon's effect on the position of the 1s excitonic resonance of the fundamental absorption transition line in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. We apply our theory to WS$_{2}$a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 J. C. G. Henriques , N. M. R. Peres

Exciton-phonon interactions in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) are strong and lead to phenomena such as coherent phonon generation. When stacked and twisted, their properties can be tuned by the twisting angle. In experiments with…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-01 Rafael R. Del Grande , David A. Strubbe

The interaction between off-resonant laser pulses and excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides is attracting increasing interest as a route for the valley-selective coherent control of the exciton properties. Here, we extend…

Self-assembled hybrid perovskite quantum wells have attracted attention due to their tunable emission properties, ease of fabrication and device integration. However, the dynamics of excitons in these materials, especially how they couple…

Heterostructures of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host long-lived, tunable excitons, making them intriguing candidates for material-based quantum information applications. Light absorption in these systems induces a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 Tomer Amit , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

Excitons, Coulomb bound electron-hole pairs, dominate the optical response of two-dimensional semiconductors across near-infrared and visible frequencies due to their large binding energy and prominent oscillator strength. Previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Anna Roche , Michael R. Koehler , David G. Mandrus , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , John R. Schaibley , Brian J. LeRoy

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

Optimized light-matter coupling in semiconductor nanostructures is a key to understand their optical properties and can be enabled by advanced fabrication techniques. Using in-situ electron beam lithography combined with a low-temperature…

We perform coherent nonlinear spectroscopy of excitons in single-layers of MoSe$_2$ and WSe$_2$ encapsulated between thin films of hexagonal boron nitride. Employing four-wave mixing microscopy we identify virtually disorder free areas,…

Excitons with binding energies of a few hundreds of meV control the optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Knowledge of the fine structure of these excitons is therefore essential to understand the optoelectronic…

Exciton-phonon interactions govern the energy level spectrum and thus the optical response in semiconductors. In this respect, lead-halide perovskite nanocrystals represent a unique system, for which the interaction with optical phonons is…

Many monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, including MoS$_2$, MoSe$_2$, WS$_2$, and WSe$_2$, are direct bandgap two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with sharp optical resonances at excitonic bound state frequencies. Recent experiments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Tobias M. R. Wolf , Tian Xie , Chenhao Jin , Allan H. MacDonald