On the physics of semiconductor quantum dots for applications in lasers and quantum optics

WW Chow, F Jahnke - Progress in quantum electronics, 2013 - Elsevier
The progression of carrier confinement from quantum wells to quantum dots has received
considerable interests because of the potential to improve the semiconductor laser …

Excitonic linewidth and coherence lifetime in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

M Selig, G Berghäuser, A Raja, P Nagler… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides are direct-gap semiconductors with strong
light–matter and Coulomb interactions. The latter accounts for tightly bound excitons, which …

Ultrafast nonequilibrium carrier dynamics in a single graphene layer

M Breusing, S Kuehn, T Winzer, E Malić, F Milde… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
Nonequilibrium carrier dynamics in single exfoliated graphene layers on muscovite
substrates are studied by ultrafast optical pump-probe spectroscopy and compared with …

Phonon sidebands in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

D Christiansen, M Selig, G Berghäuser, R Schmidt… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Excitons dominate the optical properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs). Besides optically accessible bright exciton states, TMDs exhibit also a multitude of …

Direct exciton emission from atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures near the lifetime limit

J Wierzbowski, J Klein, F Sigger, C Straubinger… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We demonstrate the reduction of the inhomogeneous linewidth of the free excitons in
atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) MoSe2, WSe2 and MoS2 by …

Microscopic theory of absorption and ultrafast many-particle kinetics in graphene

E Malic, T Winzer, E Bobkin, A Knorr - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2011 - APS
We investigate the relaxation kinetics of optically excited charge carriers in graphene
focusing on the time-, momentum-, and angle-resolved interplay between carrier-carrier and …

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 …

Dark and bright exciton formation, thermalization, and photoluminescence in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

M Selig, G Berghäuser, M Richter, R Bratschitsch… - 2D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The remarkably strong Coulomb interaction in atomically thin transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) results in an extraordinarily rich many-particle physics including the …

Ultrafast Coulomb-Induced Intervalley Coupling in Atomically Thin WS2

R Schmidt, G Berghauser, R Schneider, M Selig… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Monolayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides hold the promise for a new
paradigm in electronics by exploiting the valley degree of freedom in addition to charge and …

Exciton-scattering-induced dephasing in two-dimensional semiconductors

F Katsch, M Selig, A Knorr - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Enhanced Coulomb interactions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides cause tightly
bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) that dominate their linear and nonlinear optical …