Direct Observation of Degenerate Two-Photon Absorption and Its Saturation in WS2 and MoS2 Monolayer and Few-Layer Films

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 7142-7150

  Zhang, Saifeng ^a   Dong, Ningning ^a   McEvoy, Niall ^b   OBrien, Maria ^b   Winters, Sinéad ^b   Berner, Nina C ^b   Yim, Chanyoung ^b   Li, Yuanxin ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a   Chen, Zhanghai ^c   Zhang, Long ^a   Duesberg, Georg S ^b   Wang, Jun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

MoS2; saturable absorption; two dimensional semiconductors; two photon absorption; WS2; Z scan

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; INFRARED DEVICES; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; MULTILAYER FILMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

MOS2; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS; Z -SCAN;

TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 84938125687     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03480     Document Type: Article

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