Optical generation of excitonic valley coherence in monolayer WSe 2

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 634-638

  Jones, Aaron M ^a   Yu, Hongyi ^b   Ghimire, Nirmal J ^c,d   Wu, Sanfeng ^a   Aivazian, Grant ^a   Ross, Jason S ^e   Zhao, Bo ^a   Yan, Jiaqiang ^d,f   Mandrus, David G ^c,d,f   Xiao, Di ^g   Yao, Wang ^b   Xu, Xiaodong ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e University of Washington   (United States)

^f University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^g CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; COHERENT LIGHT; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; EXCITONS; MONOLAYERS; PHOTONS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED PHOTONS; COHERENT MANIPULATION; COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; LINEAR POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SELECTION RULES; QUANTUM MANIPULATION; QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES;

LANDFORMS;

ARTICLE; DEVICES; ELECTRON; LUMINESCENCE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; OPTICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84883740799     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.151     Document Type: Article

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