Excitonic Dark States in TMDCs (IMAGE)

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Excitonic Dark States in TMDCs

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Berkeley Lab researchers have found evidence for excitonic dark states in monolayers of tungsten disulfide that could explain the unusual optoelectronic properties of single atomic layers of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials.

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Image courtesy of Xiang Zhang group, Berkeley Lab

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