Photocarrier relaxation pathway in two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kozawa, Daichi ^a   Kumar, Rajeev ^b   Carvalho, Alexandra ^b   Kumar Amara, Kiran ^b   Zhao, Weijie ^b   Wang, Shunfeng ^b   Toh, Minglin ^b   Ribeiro, Ricardo M ^b,c   Castro Neto, A H ^b   Matsuda, Kazunari ^a   Eda, Goki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICHALCOGENIDE DERIVATIVE; TRANSITION ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRACTIONATION; LUMINESCENCE; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTODYNAMICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON; QUANTUM YIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84905264315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5543     Document Type: Article

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