Nanomaterials (Mar 2023)

Ultrafast Dynamics of Valley-Polarized Excitons in WSe<sub>2</sub> Monolayer Studied by Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

  • Petr Koutenský,
  • Artur Slobodeniuk,
  • Miroslav Bartoš,
  • František Trojánek,
  • Petr Malý,
  • Martin Kozák

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13071207
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 7
p. 1207

Abstract

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We report on the experimental investigation of the ultrafast dynamics of valley-polarized excitons in monolayer WSe2 using transient reflection spectroscopy with few-cycle laser pulses with 7 fs duration. We observe that at room temperature, the anisotropic valley population of excitons decays on two different timescales. The shorter decay time of approximately 120 fs is related to the initial hot exciton relaxation related to the fast direct recombination of excitons from the radiative zone, while the slower picosecond dynamics corresponds to valley depolarization induced by Coloumb exchange-driven transitions of excitons between two inequivalent valleys.

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