Ultrafast electronic and structural response of monolayer MoS2 under intense photoexcitation conditions

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10734-10742

  Mannebach, Ehren M ^a   Duerloo, Karel Alexander N ^a   Pellouchoud, Lenson A ^a   Sher, Meng Ju ^b   Nah, Sanghee ^a,b   Kuo, Yi Hong ^a   Yu, Yifei ^c   Marshall, Ann F ^d   Cao, Linyou ^c   Reed, Evan J ^a   Lindenberg, Aaron M ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

femtosecond; molybdenum disulfide; monolayer; MoS2; second harmonic generation; ultrafast dynamics

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTOEXCITATION; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TRANSITION METALS;

BANDGAP PHOTOEXCITATION; EXCITATION CONDITIONS; FEMTOSECONDS; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; MOS2; SECOND-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84908440092     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5044542     Document Type: Article

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