Ultrafast formation of interlayer hot excitons in atomically thin MoS 2 /WS 2 heterostructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chen, Hailong ^a,b   Wen, Xiewen ^a,b,c   Zhang, Jing ^d   Wu, Tianmin ^e   Gong, Yongji ^b,c   Zhang, Xiang ^b,c   Yuan, Jiangtan ^c   Yi, Chongyue ^b   Lou, Jun ^c   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^c   Zhuang, Wei ^f   Zhang, Guangyu ^d   Zheng, Junrong ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^f FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOMENTUM; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM;

EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; INFRARED RADIATION;

EID: 84983287892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12512     Document Type: Article

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