Defects activated photoluminescence in two-dimensional semiconductors: Interplay between bound, charged, and free excitons

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tongay, Sefaattin ^a,b   Suh, Joonki ^a,b   Ataca, Can ^c   Fan, Wen ^a   Luce, Alexander ^a,d   Kang, Jeong Seuk ^a   Liu, Jonathan ^a   Ko, Changhyun ^a   Raghunathanan, Rajamani ^c   Zhou, Jian ^a   Ogletree, Frank ^d   Li, Jingbo ^b   Grossman, Jeffrey C ^c   Wu, Junqiao ^a,b,d  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84884246363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02657     Document Type: Article

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