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Nano Lett. 2017 Mar 08;17(3):1455-1460. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04422. Epub 2017 Feb 13.

Direct Observation of Ultrafast Exciton Formation in a Monolayer of WSe.

Nano letters

Philipp Steinleitner, Philipp Merkl, Philipp Nagler, Joshua Mornhinweg, Christian Schüller, Tobias Korn, Alexey Chernikov, Rupert Huber

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Regensburg , 93040 Regensburg, Germany.

PMID: 28182430 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04422

Abstract

Many of the fundamental optical and electronic properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides are dominated by strong Coulomb interactions between electrons and holes, forming tightly bound atom-like states called excitons. Here, we directly trace the ultrafast formation of excitons by monitoring the absolute densities of bound and unbound electron-hole pairs in single monolayers of WSe

Keywords: Dichalcogenides; atomically thin 2D crystals; exciton formation; ultrafast dynamics

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