Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Trion fine structure and coupled spin–valley dynamics in monolayer tungsten disulfide

  • Gerd Plechinger,
  • Philipp Nagler,
  • Ashish Arora,
  • Robert Schmidt,
  • Alexey Chernikov,
  • Andrés Granados del Águila,
  • Peter C.M. Christianen,
  • Rudolf Bratschitsch,
  • Christian Schüller,
  • Tobias Korn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12715
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are promising materials for valleytronics applications. Here, the authors study WS2samples using photoluminescence spectroscopy and time-resolved Kerr-rotation measurements at low temperatures, gaining insight into the valley dynamics of excitons.