Probing Photoexcited Carriers in a Few-Layer MoS2 Laminate by Time-Resolved Optical Pump-Terahertz Probe Spectroscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 12004-12010

  Kar, Srabani ^a,b   Su, Y ^c   Nair, R R ^c   Sood, A K ^a,b  

^a Department of Physics ^*  (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bound excitons; defect assisted Auger scattering; few layer MoS2; optical pump terahertz probe

Indexed keywords

AUGERS; DEFECTS; EXCITONS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PROBES;

AUGER SCATTERING; BOUND EXCITON; FEW-LAYER MOS2; NON-EQUILIBRIUM CARRIERS; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; OPTICAL PUMP-TERAHERTZ PROBE; OPTICAL-PUMP TERAHERTZ-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE CARRIERS;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84952361282     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04804     Document Type: Article

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