Colloquium: Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides

G Wang, A Chernikov, MM Glazov, TF Heinz… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality …

Valley Zeeman effect in elementary optical excitations of monolayer WSe2

A Srivastava, M Sidler, AV Allain, DS Lembke, A Kis… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
A monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide such as WSe2 is a two-dimensional direct-
bandgap valley-semiconductor, having an effective honeycomb lattice structure with broken …

Exciton diamagnetic shifts and valley Zeeman effects in monolayer WS2 and MoS2 to 65 Tesla

AV Stier, KM McCreary, BT Jonker, J Kono… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
In bulk and quantum-confined semiconductors, magneto-optical studies have historically
played an essential role in determining the fundamental parameters of excitons (size …

Magnetooptics of exciton Rydberg states in a monolayer semiconductor

AV Stier, NP Wilson, KA Velizhanin, J Kono, X Xu… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We report 65 T magnetoabsorption spectroscopy of exciton Rydberg states in the archetypal
monolayer semiconductor WSe 2. The strongly field-dependent and distinct energy shifts of …

Resonant internal quantum transitions and femtosecond radiative decay of excitons in monolayer WSe2

C Pöllmann, P Steinleitner, U Leierseder, P Nagler… - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Atomically thin two-dimensional crystals have revolutionized materials science,,. In
particular, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides promise novel optoelectronic …

Berry phase modification to the energy spectrum of excitons

J Zhou, WY Shan, W Yao, D Xiao - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
By quantizing the semiclassical motion of excitons, we show that the Berry curvature can
cause an energy splitting between exciton states with opposite angular momentum. This …

Intrinsic exciton-state mixing and nonlinear optical properties in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

MM Glazov, LE Golub, G Wang, X Marie, T Amand… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers are controlled by Wannier-
Mott excitons forming a series of 1 s, 2 s, 2 p,... hydrogen-like states. We develop the theory …

Carbon nanotubes as excitonic insulators

D Varsano, S Sorella, D Sangalli, M Barborini… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Fifty years ago Walter Kohn speculated that a zero-gap semiconductor might be
unstable against the spontaneous generation of excitons–electron–hole pairs bound …

Graphene and monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides: properties and devices

OMJ Van't Erve, AT Hanbicki, AL Friedman… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - cambridge.org
2D materials play a special role in the race to make smaller and smaller devices. Their
unique and strong in-plane bonding makes them impervious to diffusion into other layers …

Influence of the effective layer thickness on the ground-state and excitonic properties of transition-metal dichalcogenide systems

L Meckbach, T Stroucken, SW Koch - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A self-consistent scheme for the calculations of the interacting ground state and the near
band-gap optical spectra of mono-and multilayer transition-metal-dichalcogenide systems is …