Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Efficient generation of neutral and charged biexcitons in encapsulated WSe2 monolayers

  • Ziliang Ye,
  • Lutz Waldecker,
  • Eric Yue Ma,
  • Daniel Rhodes,
  • Abhinandan Antony,
  • Bumho Kim,
  • Xiao-Xiao Zhang,
  • Minda Deng,
  • Yuxuan Jiang,
  • Zhengguang Lu,
  • Dmitry Smirnov,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • James Hone,
  • Tony F. Heinz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05917-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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High-order correlated states in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides may be facilitated by long-lived optically dark excitons. Here, the authors report experimentally the emergence of neutral and charged biexciton species at low light intensities in encapsulated WSe2 monolayers.