Advances in ultrafast plasmonics

AN Koya, M Romanelli, J Kuttruff… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven
phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead …

Direct Thermal Enhancement of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction of On-Chip Monolayer MoS2

J Qu, Y Li, F Li, T Li, X Wang, Y Yin, L Ma, OG Schmidt… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
MoS2 has drawn great attention as a promising alternative to Pt-based catalysts for the
hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, it suffers from sluggish kinetics to drive the …

Disentangling many-body effects in the coherent optical response of 2D semiconductors

C Trovatello, F Katsch, Q Li, X Zhu, A Knorr… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
In single-layer (1L) transition metal dichalcogenides, the reduced Coulomb screening
results in strongly bound excitons which dominate the linear and the nonlinear optical …

Theory of coherent phonons coupled to excitons

E Perfetto, K Wu, G Stefanucci - npj 2D Materials and Applications, 2024 - nature.com
The interaction of excitons with lattice vibrations underlies the scattering from bright to dark
excitons as well as the coherent modulation of the exciton energy. Unlike the former …

Auger‐Assisted Secondary Hot Carrier Transfer in a Type I MoS2/PtSe2 Heterostructure

J Yang, S Gong, X Zhang, J Liu, W Luo… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Charge transfer is vital in determining the optoelectronic properties of atomically thin
materials, yet remains elusive in type I heterostructures. Here, distinct two‐step charge …

Sub-10 fs Intervalley Exciton Coupling in Monolayer MoS2 Revealed by Helicity-Resolved Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

LT Lloyd, RE Wood, F Mujid, S Sohoni, KL Ji, PC Ting… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The valley pseudospin at the K and K′ high-symmetry points in monolayer transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) has potential as an optically addressable degree of freedom in next …

DNA scaffold supports long-lived vibronic coherence in an indodicarbocyanine (Cy5) dimer

SH Sohail, JP Otto, PD Cunningham, YC Kim… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Vibronic coupling between pigment molecules is believed to prolong coherences in
photosynthetic pigment–protein complexes. Reproducing long-lived coherences using …

Detection of a Coherent Excitonic State in the Layered Semiconductor BiI3

V Gosetti, J Cervantes-Villanueva, D Sangalli… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The measurement and manipulation of the coherent dynamics of excitonic states constitute a
forefront research challenge in semiconductor optics and quantum-coherence-based …

Exciton-phonon interaction calls for a revision of the “exciton” concept

F Paleari, A Marini - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The concept of optical exciton—a photoexcited bound electron-hole pair within a crystal—is
routinely used to interpret and model a wealth of excited-state phenomena in …

Excitonic effect drives ultrafast transition in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

SW Zheng, HY Wang, H Wang… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are ideal platforms for
exploring excitonic physics because of the tightly bound excitons. In this work, we observed …