Enabling valley selective exciton scattering in monolayer WSe₂ through upconversion.

ABSTRACT: Excitons, Coulomb bound electron-hole pairs, are composite bosons and their interactions in traditional semiconductors lead to condensation and light amplification. The much stronger Coulomb interaction in transition metal dichalcogenides such as WSe₂ monolayers combined with the presence of the valley degree of freedom is expected to provide new opportunities for controlling excitonic effects. But so far the bosonic character of exciton scattering processes remains largely unexplored in these two-dimensional materials. Here we show that scattering between B-excitons and A-excitons preferably happens within the same valley in momentum space. This leads to power dependent, negative polarization of the hot B-exciton emission. We use a selective upconversion technique for efficient

SUBMITTER: Manca M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5382264 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature