| Abstract Scope |
Descriptions of excitons in pristine semiconducting crystals usually rely on the hydrogen model adopted for excitons. Owing to the weak screening in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, however, the electron and hole separation in the strongest bound excitons is on the atomic scale, necessitating atomistic treatment. In this presentation, we present a minimalistic exciton model that accounts for the lattice and the spin-orbit and exchange interactions, thus making this model appropriate across the spectrum from Wannier to Frenkel excitons. Using this model, we show that the exciton lifetimes could be extended by transitioning the excitons into excitonic dark states. Longer exciton lifetimes could make these materials candidates for applications in energy management and quantum information processing.
This work has been supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), directly and through the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). |