• DocumentCode
    1770125
  • Title

    Excitons in atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides

  • Author

    Chernikov, A. ; Berkelbach, Timothy C. ; Hill, Heather M. ; Rigosi, Albert ; Yilei Li ; Aslan, Ozgur B. ; Reichman, David R. ; Hybertsen, Mark S. ; Heinz, T.F.

  • Author_Institution
    Depts. of Phys. & Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Excitons are studied experimentally and theoretically in atomically thin WS2 layers. We find a binding energy of 0.32eV as well as non-hydrogenic behavior of the exciton states due to the non-uniformity of the dielectric environment.
  • Keywords
    binding energy; excitons; tungsten compounds; WS2; atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides; binding energy; dielectric environment; exciton; exciton state; nonhydrogenic behavior; Atomic layer deposition; Dielectrics; Excitons; Hydrogen; Nanomaterials; Optical reflection;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988753