Dynamics of excitons in conjugated molecules and organic semiconductor systems

OP Dimitriev - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The exciton, an excited electron–hole pair bound by Coulomb attraction, plays a key role in
photophysics of organic molecules and drives practically important phenomena such as …

Lightwave electronics in condensed matter

M Borsch, M Meierhofer, R Huber, M Kira - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Key properties of quantum materials stem from dynamic interaction chains that connect
stable electronic quasiparticles through short-lived coherences, which are difficult to control …

An excitonic perspective on low-dimensional semiconductors for photocatalysis

H Wang, W Liu, X He, P Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Low-dimensional semiconductors provide a marvelous platform for pursuing versatile
photocatalytic solar energy conversion. Compared with the bulk counterparts, low …

Exciton dissociation in 2D layered metal-halide perovskites

A Simbula, L Wu, F Pitzalis, R Pau, S Lai, F Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Layered 2D perovskites are making inroads as materials for photovoltaics and light emitting
diodes, but their photophysics is still lively debated. Although their large exciton binding …

Excitonic linewidth and coherence lifetime in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

M Selig, G Berghäuser, A Raja, P Nagler… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides are direct-gap semiconductors with strong
light–matter and Coulomb interactions. The latter accounts for tightly bound excitons, which …

Ultrafast Dynamics of Defect-Assisted Electron–Hole Recombination in Monolayer MoS2

H Wang, C Zhang, F Rana - Nano letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this Letter, we present nondegenerate ultrafast optical pump–probe studies of the carrier
recombination dynamics in MoS2 monolayers. By tuning the probe to wavelengths much …

Attosecond clocking of correlations between Bloch electrons

J Freudenstein, M Borsch, M Meierhofer, D Afanasiev… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Delocalized Bloch electrons and the low-energy correlations between them determine key
optical, electronic and entanglement functionalities of solids, all the way through to phase …

Lightwave valleytronics in a monolayer of tungsten diselenide

F Langer, CP Schmid, S Schlauderer, M Gmitra… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
As conventional electronics approaches its limits, nanoscience has urgently sought methods
of fast control of electrons at the fundamental quantum level. Lightwave electronics—the …

Tunable phases of moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

S Brem, C Linderälv, P Erhart, E Malic - Nano letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Stacking monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides into a heterostructure with a finite
twist-angle gives rise to artificial moiré superlattices with a tunable periodicity. As a …

Carrier dynamics in semiconductors studied with time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy

R Ulbricht, E Hendry, J Shan, TF Heinz, M Bonn - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Time-resolved, pulsed terahertz spectroscopy has developed into a powerful tool to study
charge carrier dynamics in semiconductors and semiconductor structures over the past …