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physics.optics2025

Sub 10 nm Nanochannels Enable Directional Quasi Ballistic Exciton Transport over 5 μm at Room Temperature

Xiao-Jie Wang, Jia-Wei Tan, Xiao-Ze Li +9

Nanoscale potential wells provide a powerful means to engineer energy landscapes in low dimensional materials, enabling control over quantum states, carrier dynamics, and optoelect…

physics.optics2026

Entangled Telecom Photon Generation using Twisted Van der Waals Crystals

Nidhin Prasannan, Konstantinos Mourzidis, Vishwas Jindal +11

Nanoscale quantum light sources are essential building blocks for integrated quantum photonic systems. Here, we report a wavelength-scale entangled-photon source based on van der W…

physics.app-ph2020

Electrical Detection of Light Helicity using a Quantum Dots based Hybrid Device at Zero Magnetic Field

Fabian Cadiz, Delphine Lagarde, Bingshan Tao +13

Photon helicity-dependent photocurrent is measured at zero magnetic field on a device based on an ensemble of InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots that are embedded into a GaAs-based p-i-n dio…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024

Large-scale characterization of Cu2O monocrystals via Rydberg excitons

Kerwan Morin, Delphine Lagarde, Angélique Gillet +2

Rydberg states of excitons can reach microns in size and require extremely pure crystals. We introduce an experimental method for the rapid and spatially-resolved characterization…

physics.optics2009

Controlling the polarization eigenstate of a quantum dot exciton with light

Thomas Belhadj, Claire-Marie Simon, Thierry Amand +6

We demonstrate optical control of the polarization eigenstates of a neutral quantum dot exciton without any external fields. By varying the excitation power of a circularly polariz…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Optomechanical measurement of thermal transport in two-dimensional MoSe2 lattices

Nicolas Morell, Slaven Tepsic, Antoine Reserbat-Plantey +7

Nanomechanical resonators have emerged as sensors with exceptional sensitivities. These sensing capabilities open new possibilities in the studies of the thermodynamic properties i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Intervalley electron-hole exchange interaction and impurity-assisted recombination of indirect excitons in WS and WSe monolayers

Pengke Li, Cedric Robert, Dinh Van Tuan +3

The variety of excitonic states in tungsten-based dichalcogenide monolayers stems from unique interplay between the spin and valley degrees of freedom. One of the exciton species i…

cond-mat.other2005

Dynamic nuclear polarization of a single charge-tunable InAs/GaAs quantum dot

Benoît Eble, Olivier Krebs, Aristide Lemaître +6

We report on the dynamic nuclear polarization of a single charge-tunable self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dot in a longitudinal magnetic field of 0.2T. The hyperfine interact…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Imaging Seebeck drift of excitons and trions in MoSe2 monolayers

Sangjun Park, Bo Han, Caroline Boule +10

Hyperspectral imaging at cryogenic temperatures is used to investigate exciton and trion propagation in MoSe monolayers encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Under a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Unveiling the optical emission channels of monolayer semiconductors coupled to silicon nanoantennas

Jean-Marie Poumirol, Ioannis Paradisanos, Shivangi Shree +13

Monolayers (MLs) of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as WSe2 and MoSe2 can be placed by dry stamping directly on broadband dielectric resonators, which have the ability…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Ta/CoFeB/MgO on full coverage monolayer MoS2 and first principle study of its electronic structure

Ziqi Zhou, Paul Marcon, Xavier Devaux +18

Perpendicularly magnetized spin injector with high Curie temperature is a prerequisite for developing spin optoelectronic devices on 2D materials working at room temperature (RT) w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Stability of the In-Plane Room Temperature van der Waals Ferromagnet Chromium Ditelluride and Its Conversion to Chromium-Interleaved CrTe Compounds

Anike Purbawati, Suman Sarkar, Sébastien Pairis +19

Van der Waals magnetic materials are building blocks for novel kinds of spintronic devices and playgrounds for exploring collective magnetic phenomena down to the two-dimensional l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Exciton self-trapping in twisted hexagonal boron nitride homostructures

Sébastien Roux, Christophe Arnold, Etienne Carré +17

One of the main interests of 2D materials is their ability to be assembled with many degrees of freedom for tuning and manipulating excitonic properties. There is a need to underst…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Interlayer excitons in bilayer MoS2 with strong oscillator strength up to room temperature

Iann C. Gerber, Emmanuel Courtade, Shivangi Shree +8

Coulomb bound electron-hole pairs, excitons, govern the optical properties of semi-conducting transition metal dichalcogenides like MoS and WSe. We study optical transition…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Emission Dynamics of Rydberg Excitons in : Distinguishing Second Harmonic Generation from Secondary Emission

Kerwan Morin, Poulab Chakrabarti, Delphine Lagarde +5

Rydberg excitons in simultaneously give rise to two very different optical responses under resonant two-photon excitation: a coherent second-harmonic signal mediat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Ultra-low power threshold for laser induced changes in optical properties of 2D Molybdenum dichalcogenides

Fabian Cadiz, Cedric Robert, Gang Wang +13

The optical response of traditional semiconductors depends on the laser excitation power used in experiments. For two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, laser excitation effects are…

physics.optics2020

Magneto-optical determination of the carrier lifetime in coherent Ge(1-x)Sn(x)/Ge heterostructures

Elisa Vitiello, Simone Rossi, Christopher A. Broderick +6

We present a magneto-optical study of the carrier dynamics in compressively strained Ge(1-x)Sn(x) films having Sn compositions up to 10% epitaxially grown on blanket Ge on Si (001)…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Electronic structure of the Co(0001)/MoS2 interface, and its possible use for electrical spin injection in a single MoS2 layer

Thomas Garandel, Rémi Arras, Xavier Marie +2

The ability to perform efficient electrical spin injection from ferromagnetic metals into two-dimensional semiconductor crystals based on transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers…

physics.optics2025

Silicon nanoantennas for tailoring the optical properties of MoS2 monolayers

Danae Katrisioti, Peter R. Wiecha, Aurélien Cuche +11

Silicon-based dielectric nanoantennas provide an effective platform for engineering light-matter interactions in van der Waals semiconductors. Here, we demonstrate near-field coupl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Measurement of Conduction and Valence Bands g-factors in a Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayer

Cedric Robert, Hanan Dery, Lei Ren +9

The electron valley and spin degree of freedom in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides can be manipulated in optical and transport measurements performed in magnetic fields.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Controlling interlayer excitons in MoS2 layers grown by chemical vapor deposition

Ioannis Paradisanos, Shivangi Shree, Antony George +9

Combining MoS monolayers to form multilayers allows to access new functionalities. In this work, we examine the correlation between the stacking order and the interlayer coupli…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Relaxation and darkening of excitonic complexes in electrostatically-doped monolayer semiconductors: Roles of exciton-electron and trion-electron interactions

Min Yang, Lei Ren, Cedric Robert +5

We present photoluminescence measurements in monolayer WSe, which point to the importance of the interaction between charged particles and excitonic complexes. The theoretical…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Laser patterning of the room temperature van der Waals ferromagnet 1-CrTe

Tristan Riccardi, Suman Sarkar, Anike Purbawati +19

Lamellar crystalline materials, whose layers are bond by van der Waals forces, can be stacked to form ultrathin artificial heterostructures, and in particular vertical magnetic jun…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Spin/Valley pumping of resident electrons in WSe2 and WS2 monolayers

Cedric Robert, Sangjun Park, Fabian Cadiz +14

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides are ideal materials to control both spin and valley degrees of freedom either electrically or optically. Nevertheless, optical excita…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Filtering the photoluminescence spectra of atomically thin semiconductors with graphene

Etienne Lorchat, Luis E. Parra López, Cédric Robert +6

Atomically thin semiconductors made from transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are model systems for investigations of strong light-matter interactions and applications in nanoph…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Identifying optical signatures of momentum-dark excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

Jessica Lindlau, Cedric Robert, Victor Funk +12

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers (MLs) exhibit rich photoluminescence spectra associated with interband optical transitions of direct-gap semiconductors. Upon absor…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Carrier and Spin Coherent Dynamics in Strained Germanium-Tin Semiconductor on Silicon

Sebastiano De Cesari, Andrea Balocchi, Elisa Vitiello +6

Germanium-Tin is emerging as a material exhibiting excellent photonic properties. Here we demonstrate optical initialization and readout of spins in this intriguing group IV semico…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides

Gang Wang, Alexey Chernikov, Mikhail M. Glazov +4

Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Guide to optical spectroscopy of layered semiconductors

Shivangi Shree, Ioannis Paradisanos, Xavier Marie +2

In this technical review we give an introduction to optical spectroscopy for layered materials as a powerful, non-invasive tool to access details of the electronic band structure a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010

Impact of heavy hole-light hole coupling on optical selection rules in GaAs quantum dots

Thomas Belhadj, Thierry Amand, Alejandro Kunold +8

We report strong heavy hole-light mixing in GaAs quantum dots grown by droplet epitaxy. Using the neutral and charged exciton emission as a monitor we observe the direct consequenc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Thermal assisted transport of biexcitons in monolayer WSe2

Dorian Béret, Louka Hemmen, Vishwas Jindal +9

Studies of excitonic transport in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers have attracted increasing interest in recent years in order to develop nano-optoelectronic devices made…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Kapitza-resistance-like exciton dynamics in atomically flat MoSe-WSe lateral heterojunction

Hassan Lamsaadi, Dorian Beret, Ioannis Paradisanos +13

Being able to control the neutral excitonic flux is a mandatory step for the development of future room-temperature two-dimensional excitonic devices. Semiconducting Monolayer Tran…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Sub-nm range momentum-dependent exciton transfer from a 2D semiconductor to graphene

Aditi Raman Moghe, Delphine Lagarde, Sotirios Papadopoulos +11

Heterostructures made from atomically thin semiconductors (here MoSe) and graphene are uniquely poised to investigate photoinduced charge and energy transfer in the 2D limit. H…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Fine Structure and Lifetime of Dark Excitons in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers

Cedric Robert, Thierry Amand, Fabian Cadiz +7

The intricate interplay between optically dark and bright excitons governs the light-matter interaction in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. We have performed a detailed…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Alloy engineering of excitonic properties in TMD monolayers

Eirini Katsipoulaki, Adlen Smiri, Panagiotis Spiliotakis +12

We investigate monolayer MoSSe alloys across the full composition range using optical spectroscopy. We demonstrate continuous tuning of the optical gap over $\sim…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Exciton spectroscopy and diffusion in MoSe2-WSe2 lateral heterostructures encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride

Dorian Beret, Ioannis Paradisanos, Ziyang Gan +17

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) allows lateral edge epitaxy of transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures with potential applications in optoelectronics. Critical for carrier…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Well separated trion and neutral excitons on superacid treated MoS2 monolayers

Fabian Cadiz, Simon Tricard, Maxime Gay +6

Developments in optoelectronics and spin-optronics based on transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers (MLs) need materials with efficient optical emission and well-defined transit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Discrete quantum dot like emitters in monolayer MoSe2: Spatial mapping, Magneto-optics and Charge tuning

Artur Branny, Gang Wang, Santosh Kumar +5

Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers such as MoSe2,MoS2 and WSe2 are direct bandgap semiconductors with original optoelectronic and spin-valley properties. Here we report spe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Spin-orbit engineering in transition metal dichalcogenide alloy monolayers

Gang Wang, Cedric Robert, Aslihan Suslu +8

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers are newly discovered semiconductors for a wide range of applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Most studies have focused…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Giant Stark splitting of an exciton in bilayer MoS

Nadine Leisgang, Shivangi Shree, Ioannis Paradisanos +10

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) constitute a versatile platform for atomically thin optoelectronics devices and spin-valley memory applications. In monolayers optical absor…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Interlayer exciton mediated second harmonic generation in bilayer MoS2

Shivangi Shree, Delphine Lagarde, Laurent Lombez +10

Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a non-linear optical process, where two photons coherently combine into one photon of twice their energy. Efficient SHG occurs for crystals with…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Dependence of the hBN Layer Thickness on the Band Structure and Exciton Properties of Encapsulated WSe2 Monolayers

Iann C. Gerber, Xavier Marie

The optical properties of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers such as MoS or WSe are dominated by excitons, Coulomb bound electron-hole pairs. Screen…

quant-ph2024

Direct measurement of the lifetime and coherence time of Cu2O Rydberg excitons

Poulab Chakrabarti, Kerwan Morin, Delphine Lagarde +2

Rydberg states of excitons are promising quantum objects to engineer giant nonlinearities in a solid-state system. For this purpose, a deeper understanding of the dynamics of Rydbe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Synthesis of Highly Anisotropic Semiconducting GaTe Nanomaterials and Emerging Properties Enabled by Epitaxy

Hui Cai, Bin Chen, Gang Wang +7

Pseudo-one dimensional (pseudo-1D) materials are a new-class of materials where atoms are arranged in chain like structures in two-dimensions (2D). Examples include recently discov…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Second harmonic generation control in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

Ioannis Paradisanos, Andres Manuel Saiz Raven, Thierry Amand +7

The twist angle in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers is a compelling degree of freedom that determines electron correlations and the period of lateral confinemen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Electron and hole doping of monolayer WSe2 induced by twisted ferroelectric hexagonal boron nitride

Jules Fraunié, Rayan Jamil, Richard Kantelberg +12

For the past few years, 2D ferroelectric materials have attracted strong interest for their potential in future nanoelectronics devices. The recent discovery of 2D ferroelectricity…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Charge state tuning of spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

Jules Fraunié, Tristan Clua-Provost, Sébastien Roux +14

Boron vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are among the most extensively studied optically active spin defects in van der Waals crystals, due to their promising potential to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

High luminescence efficiency of multi-valley excitonic complexes in heavily doped WSe2 monolayer

Sébastien Roux, Tilly Guyot, Abraao Cefas Torres-Dias +9

Monolayers of group-VI transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are two-dimensional semiconductors that exhibit exceptionally strong light-matter coupling yet typically suffer from…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

One pot chemical vapor deposition of high optical quality large area monolayer Janus transition metal dichalcogenides

Ziyang Gan, Ioannis Paradisanos, Ana Estrada-Real +13

We report one-pot chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of large-area Janus SeMoS monolayers, with the asymmetric top (Se) and bottom (S) chalcogen atomic planes with respect to t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012

Nuclear spin physics in quantum dots: an optical investigation

Bernhard Urbaszek, Xavier Marie, Thierry Amand +5

The mesoscopic spin system formed by the 10E4-10E6 nuclear spins in a semiconductor quantum dot offers a unique setting for the study of many-body spin physics in the condensed mat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Capacitively-coupled and inductively-coupled excitons in bilayer MoS

Lukas Sponfeldner, Nadine Leisgang, Shivangi Shree +10

The interaction of intralayer and interlayer excitons is studied in a two-dimensional semiconductor, homobilayer MoS. It is shown that the measured optical susceptibility revea…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Quantum light generation with ultra-high spatial resolution in 2D semiconductors via ultra-low energy electron irradiation

Ajit Kumar Dash, Sharad Kumar Yadav, Sebastien Roux +7

Single photon emitters (SPEs) are building blocks of quantum technologies. Defect engineering of 2D materials is ideal to fabricate SPEs, wherein spatially deterministic and qualit…

physics.app-ph2020

Mo Thio and Oxo-Thio Molecular Complexes Film as Self-Healing Catalyst for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution on 2D Materials

Juliana Barros Barbosa, Pierre Louis Taberna, Valerie Bourdon +10

2D semiconducting nanosheets of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides are attractive materials for solar energy conversion because of their unique absorption properties. Here, we propos…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Efficient phonon cascades in hot photoluminescence of WSe monolayers

Ioannis Paradisanos, Gang Wang, Evgeny M. Alexeev +5

Energy relaxation of photo-excited charge carriers is of significant fundamental interest and crucial for the performance of monolayer (1L) transition metal dichaclogenides (TMDs)…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Phonon-assisted Photoluminescence from Dark Excitons in Monolayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Samuel Brem, August Ekman, Dominik Christiansen +7

The photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) shows a multitude of emission peaks below the bright exciton line and not all of them have been expla…

cond-mat.other2007

Exciton Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Thierry Amand, Xavier Marie

In this paper we will review Exciton Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells. The spin properties of excitons in nanostructures are determined by their fine structure. We will…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Using Light to Polarize and Detect Electron Spins in Silicon

Xavier Marie, Delphine Lagarde, Andrea Balocchi +5

Despite decades of research, demonstration of all-optical detection and control of free electron spins in silicon remains elusive. Here, we directly probe the electron spin propert…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Gate-tuneable single-photon emitters in WSe2 monolayer created via AFM nanoindentation on rigid SiO2/Si substrates

Ajit Kumar Dash, Sanket Jugade, Manavendra Pratap Singh +12

Single-photon emitters (SPEs) hosted by two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting materials are envisioned for next-generation quantum applications. However, SPE creation in 2D semicondu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Non-radiative energy transfer between boron vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride and other 2D materials

Fraunié Jules, Mikhail M. Glazov, Sébastien Roux +13

Boron vacancies () in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as a promising platform for two-dimensional quantum sensors capable of operating at atomic-scale proximity.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Accessing high optical quality of MoS2 monolayers grown by chemical vapor deposition

Shivangi Shree, Antony George, Tibor Lehnert +9

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) allows growing transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) over large surface areas on inexpensive substrates. In this work, we correlate the structural…

physics.optics2022

Probing the optical near-field interaction of Mie nanoresonators with atomically thin semiconductors

Ana Estrada-Real, Ioannis Paradisanos, Peter R. Wiecha +10

Optical Mie resonators based on silicon nanostructures allow tuning of light-matter-interaction with advanced design concepts based on CMOS compatible nanofabrication. Optically ac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Spin-injection and spin-relaxation in p-doped InGaAs/GaAs quantum-dot spin light emitting diode at zero magnetic field

Alaa E. Giba, Xue Gao, Mathieu Stoffel +10

We report on efficient spin injection in p-doped InGaAs/GaAs quantum-dot (QD) spin light emitting diode (spin-LED) under zero applied magnetic field. A high degree of electrolumine…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Optical orientation of electron spins and valence band spectroscopy in germanium

Fabio Pezzoli, Andrea Balocchi, Elisa Vitiello +2

We have investigated optical orientation in the vicinity of the direct gap of bulk germanium. The electron spin polarization is studied via polarization-resolved photoluminescence…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Energy shifts and broadening of excitonic resonances in electrostatically-doped semiconductors

Hanan Dery, Cedric Robert, Scott A. Crooker +2

Tuning the density of resident electrons or holes in semiconductors provides crucial insight into the composition of excitonic complexes that are observed as absorption or photolum…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Exciton valley depolarization in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides

Min Yang, Cedric Robert, Zhengguang Lu +4

The valley degree of freedom is a sought-after quantum number in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides. Similar to optical spin orientation in semiconductors, the helicity of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Optical detection of long electron spin transport lengths in a monolayer semiconductor

Lei Ren, Laurent Lombez, Cedric Robert +8

Using a spatially-resolved optical pump-probe experiment, we measure the lateral transport of spin/valley polarized electrons over very long distances (tens of micrometers) in a si…

physics.optics2008

Optically monitored nuclear spin dynamics in individual GaAs quantum dots grown by droplet epitaxy

Thomas Belhadj, Takashi Kuroda, Claire-Marie Simon +6

We report optical orientation experiments in individual, strain free GaAs quantum dots in AlGaAs grown by droplet epitaxy. Circularly polarized optical excitation yields strong cir…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Investigation of the anisotropic electron g factor as a probe of the electronic structure of GaBiAs/GaAs epilayers

Christopher A. Broderick, Simone Mazzucato, Hélène Carrère +9

The electron Landé g factor () is investigated both experimentally and theoretically in a series of GaBiAs/GaAs strained epitaxial layers, for bismuth composi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

From the synthesis of hBN crystals to their use as nanosheets for optoelectronic devices

Camille Maestre, Yangdi Li, Vincent Garnier +11

In the wide world of 2D materials, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) holds a special place due to its excellent characteristics. In addition to its thermal, chemical and mechanical sta…