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Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a platform for realizing Wigner crystals and enable their detection via exciton spectroscopy. We develop a microscopic theoretical model for excitons interacting with the localized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-22 Haydn S. Adlong , Eugen Dizer , Richard Schmidt , Atac Imamoglu , Arthur Christianen

Monolayer 2D semiconductors, such as WS2, exhibit uniquely strong light-matter interactions due to exciton resonances that enable atomically-thin optical elements. Similar to geometry-dependent plasmon and Mie resonances, these intrinsic…

This article explores the recent advancements in atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs) and their potential applications in various fields, including nanoelectronics, photonics, sensing, energy storage,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-17 Mitesh B. Solanki , Margi Jani

Electric field-controlled, two-dimensional (2D) exciton dynamics in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers is a current research focus in condensed matter physics. We have experimentally investigated the spectral and temporal properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Michael Engel , Mathias Steiner

We study the effects of strain on exciton dynamics in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanoribbons. Using the Bethe-Salpeter formalism, we derive the exciton dispersion relation in strained TMDs and demonstrate that strain-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Shiva Heidari , Shervin Parsi , Pouyan Ghaemi

van der Waals heterostructures consisting of vertically stacked transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a rich landscape of bright and dark intra- and interlayer excitons. In spite of a growing literature in this field of research,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Christopher Linderälv , Paul Erhart , Ermin Malic

The optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers are widely dominated by excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs. These quasi-particles exhibit giant oscillator strength and give rise to narrow-band, well-pronounced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Christian Schneider , Mikhail M. Glazov , Tobias Korn , Sven Höfling , Bernhard Urbaszek

Twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have revealed a rich exciton landscape including hybrid excitons and spatially trapped moir\'e excitons that dominate the optical response of the material. Recent studies have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Johannes Abelardo Pineiro , Ermin Malic

Two-dimensional materials give access to the ultimate physical limits of Photonics with appealing properties for ultracompact optical components such as waveguides and modulators. Specifically, in monolayer semiconductors, a strong…

Due to the Coulomb interaction exciton eignestates in monolayer transitional metal dichalcogenides are coherent superposition of two valleys. The exciton band which couples to the transverse electric mode of light has parabolic dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Areg Ghazaryan , Mohammad Hafezi , Pouyan Ghaemi

Transition metal dichalcogenides hold promise for applications in novel optoelectronic devices. There is therefore a need for materials that can be obtained in large quantities and with well understood optical properties. In this report, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 Ł. Kłopotowski , C. Backes , A. A. Mitioglu , V. Vega-Mayoral , D. Hanlon , J. N. Coleman , V. Y. Ivanov , D. K. Maude , P. Plochocka

Two-dimensional Ruddlesden-Popper hybrid lead halide perovskites have become a major topic in perovskite optoelectronics. Here, we aim to unravel the ultrafast dynamics governing the evolution of charge carriers and excitons in these…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Andrés Burgos-Caminal , Etienne Socie , Marine E. F. Bouduban , Jacques-E. Moser

Atomic-scale control of light-matter interactions represent the ultimate frontier for many applications in photonics and quantum technology. Two-dimensional semiconductors, including transition metal dichalcogenides, are a promising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 John M. Woods , Saroj B. Chand , Enrique Mejia , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Johannes Flick , Gabriele Grosso

The exceptionally strong Coulomb interaction in semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) gives rise to a rich exciton landscape consisting of bright and dark exciton states. At elevated densities, excitons can interact through…

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-17 Yiling Yu , Guoqing Li , Linyou Cao

Excitons, electron-hole pairs bound by the Coulomb potential, are fundamental quasiparticles of coherent light-matter interaction energizing processes from photosynthesis to optoelectronics. Excitons are observed in semiconductors, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Xuefeng Cui , Cong Wang , Adam Argondizzo , Sean Garrett-Roe , Branko Gumhalter , Hrvoje Petek

Semiconductors in all dimensionalities ranging from 0D quantum dots and molecules to 3D bulk crystals support bound electron-hole pair quasiparticles termed as excitons. Over the past two decades, the emergence of a variety of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-03 Surendra B. Anantharaman , Kiyoung Jo , Deep Jariwala

We study a doped transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayer in an optical microcavity. Using the microscopic theory, we simulate spectra of quasiparticles emerging due to the interaction of material excitations and a high-finesse…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Y. V. Zhumagulov , S. Chiavazzo , D. R. Gulevich , V. Perebeinos , I. A. Shelykh , O. Kyriienko

Atomically thin semiconductors exhibit tunable exciton resonances that can be harnessed for dynamic manipulation of visible light in ultra-compact metadevices. However, the rapid nonradiative decay and dephasing of excitons at room…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-18 Tom Hoekstra , Jorik van de Groep

2D materials support unique excitations of quasi-particles that consist of a material excitation and photons called polaritons. Especially interesting are in-plane propagating polaritons which can be confined to a single monolayer and carry…