Dirac cones and Dirac saddle points of bright excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yu, Hongyi ^a   Liu, Gui Bin ^a,b   Gong, Pu ^a   Xu, Xiaodong ^c   Yao, Wang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGEN; DICHALCOGENIDE; TRANSITION ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRON; MOMENTUM; POLARIZATION; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONTROL; ELECTRON; ENERGY; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHYSICS; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84900464888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4876     Document Type: Article

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