Valley-selective optical Stark effect in monolayer WS2

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 290-294

  Sie, Edbert J ^a   McLver, James W ^a,b   Lee, Yi Hsien ^c   Fu, Liang ^a   Kong, Jing ^d   Gedik, Nuh ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MONOLAYERS; STARK EFFECT; TRANSITION METALS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; ELECTRON POPULATION; ENERGY LEVEL SHIFT; OPTICAL STARK EFFECT; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES; TOPOLOGICAL PHASIS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CRYSTALS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84924082285     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4156     Document Type: Article

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