Probing dark exciton navigation through a local strain landscape in a WSe2 monolayer

oleh: Ryan J. Gelly, Dylan Renaud, Xing Liao, Benjamin Pingault, Stefan Bogdanovic, Giovanni Scuri, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Bernhard Urbaszek, Hongkun Park, Marko LonĨar

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01

Deskripsi

Here, the authors use a tapered optical fibre to create a dynamic, reversible strain in a suspended WSe2 monolayer, and observe that dark excitons are funnelled to high-strain regions and are the principal participants in drift and diffusion at cryogenic temperatures.