Mechanistic Understanding of Excitation-Correlated Nonlinear Optical Properties in MoS2 Nanosheets and Nanodots: The Role of Exciton Resonance

ACS Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2434-2444

  Sun, Jianhui ^a   Gu, Yan Juan ^a   Lei, Dang Yuan ^a   Lau, Shu Ping ^a   Wong, Wing Tak ^a   Wong, Kwok Yin ^a   Chan, Helen Lai Wai ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

exciton resonance; molybdenum disulfide; nanodots and nanosheets; open aperture Z scan; two photon absorption and luminescence

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; EXCITONS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSHEETS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

EXCITON RESONANCES; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; NANODOTS; OPEN-APERTURE Z-SCAN; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 85006852905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00682     Document Type: Article

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