Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Measurement of the spin-forbidden dark excitons in MoS2 and MoSe2 monolayers

  • C. Robert,
  • B. Han,
  • P. Kapuscinski,
  • A. Delhomme,
  • C. Faugeras,
  • T. Amand,
  • M. R. Molas,
  • M. Bartos,
  • K. Watanabe,
  • T. Taniguchi,
  • B. Urbaszek,
  • M. Potemski,
  • X. Marie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17608-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

Read online

Excitons control the optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Here, the authors measure the exciton fine structure of MoS2 and MoSe2 monolayers encapsulated in hBN in magnetic fields up to 30 T, and observe a brightening of the spin-forbidden dark excitons in MoS2.