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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

Exciton binding energies of hundreds of meV and strong light absorption in the optical frequency range make transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) promising for novel optoelectronic nanodevices. In particular, atomically thin TMDs can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Simon Ovesen , Samuel Brem , Christopher Linderälv , Mikael Kuisma , Paul Erhart , Malte Selig , Ermin Malic

Atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenide crystals (TMDCs) hold great promise for future semiconductor optoelectronics due to their unique electronic and optical properties. In particular, electron-hole pairs (excitons) in TMDCs are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 M. Wurdack , E. Estrecho , S. Todd , T. Yun , M. Pieczarka , S. K. Earl , J. A. Davis , C. Schneider , A. G. Truscott , E. A. Ostrovskaya

Exciton mobility in two-dimensional semiconductors is a key ingredient in materials-based design of optoelectronic functionalities. Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) set a good test case, with tightly bound excitons and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-17 Amir Kleiner , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) support robust excitons in the visible to near-infrared spectral range. Their reduced dielectric screening results in large binding energies, and combined with a direct bandgap in monolayer…

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers are direct bandgap semiconductors that feature tightly bound excitons, strong spin-orbit coupling, and spin-valley degrees of freedom. Depending on the spin configuration of the electron-hole…

Strong Coulomb interaction in atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides makes these systems particularly promising for studies of excitonic physics. Of special interest are the manifestations of the charged excitons, also known as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 M. M. Glazov

The remarkably strong Coulomb interaction in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) results in an extraordinarily rich many-particle physics including the formation of tightly bound excitons. Besides optically accessible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 Malte Selig , Gunnar Berghäuser , Marten Richter , Rudolf Bratschitsch , Andreas Knorr , Ermin Malic

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 in semiconductors, bound pairs of excited electrons and holes, can form the basis for new classes of quantum optoelectronic devices. A van der Waals heterostructure built from atomically thin semiconducting transition metal…

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

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host deeply bound excitons interacting with itinerant electrons, and as such they represent an exciting new quantum many-body Bose-Fermi mixture. Here, we demonstrate that electrons…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-24 Aleksi Julku , Jami J. Kinnunen , Arturo Camacho-Guardian , Georg M. Bruun

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently emerged as a promising optoelectronic platform. To leverage their full potential, however, it is important to understand and engineer the properties of the different…

The ultrathin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as promising materials for various applications using two dimensional (2D) semiconductors. They have attracted increasing attention due to their unique optical properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 Aïda Hichri , Imen Ben Amara , Sabrine Ayari , Sihem Jaziri

The two-dimensional character and reduced screening in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) lead to the ubiquitous formation of robust excitons with binding energies orders of magnitude larger than in bulk semiconductors.…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-26 Benedikt Scharf , Gaofeng Xu , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić

The energy landscape of optical excitations in mono- and few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is dominated by optically bright and dark excitons. These excitons can be fully localized within a single TMD layer, or the electron-…

Long-range and fast transport of coherent excitons is important for development of high-speed excitonic circuits and quantum computing applications. However, most of these coherent excitons have only been observed in some low-dimensional…

In the strong light-matter coupling regime realized e.g. by integrating semiconductors into optical microcavities, polaritons as new hybrid light-matter quasi-particles are formed. The corresponding change in the dispersion relation has a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-08 Beatriz Ferreira , Roberto Rosati , Ermin Malic

We propose a scheme for the spatial exciton energy control and exciton routing in a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayer which lies on a quantum paraelectric substrate. It relies on the ultrasensitive response of the substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 V. Shahnazaryan , O. Kyriienko , H. Rostami

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…