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20192026
most citedThe ultrafast onset of exciton formation in 2D semiconductors

134 citations · 739 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

physics.optics2026

All-optical switching of nonlinear structured light in crystal-engineered van der Waals materials

Paolo Valisa, Marc Richstaetter, Bianca Sanfilippo +9

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is a discrete, unbounded degree of freedom that underpins mode-multiplexed communications and high-dimensional quantum photonics. Yet, d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Nonequilibrium dynamics of high energy transitions in monolayer WSe

Oleg Dogadov, Jorge Cervantes-Villanueva, Nicholas Olsen +6

High-energy optical transitions in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides exhibit characteristics that are markedly distinct from those of lower-lying band-edge excitons. These…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Excitonic Mott transition without population inversion

Oleg Dogadov, Armando Genco, Allison R. Cadore +12

Exciton dissociation via the excitonic Mott transition (EMT) governs the high-density optical response of semiconductors and sets fundamental limits for optoelectronic devices. The…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Purcell enhancement of photogalvanic currents in a van der Waals plasmonic self-cavity

Xinyu Li, Jesse Hagelstein, Gunda Kipp +23

Cavities provide a means to manipulate the optical and electronic responses of quantum materials by selectively enhancing light-matter interaction at specific frequencies and momen…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 3 cited

Dissecting intervalley coupling mechanisms in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Oleg Dogadov, Henry Mittenzwey, Micol Bertolotti +8

Monolayer (1L) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a unique opportunity to control the valley degree of freedom of optically excited charge carriers due to the spin-val…

physics.app-ph2025

Flat band excitons in a three-dimensional supertwisted spiral transition metal dichalcogenide

Yinan Dong, Yuzhou Zhao, Lennart Klebl +19

A new frontier in van der Waals twistronics is the development of three-dimensional (3D) supertwisted materials, where each successive atomic layer rotates by the same angle. While…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 74 cited

Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials

F. Javier García de Abajo, D. N. Basov, Frank H. L. Koppens +145

Triggered by the development of exfoliation and the identification of a wide range of extraordinary physical properties in self-standing films consisting of one or few atomic layer…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Tracking the photoinduced dynamics of a dark excitonic state in single-layer WS via resonant Autler-Townes splitting

Angela Montanaro, Francesco Valiera, Francesca Giusti +10

Excitons in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (1L-TMD) are highly bound states characterized by a Rydberg-like spectrum of discrete energy levels. Among these, states wit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 15 cited

Spatiotemporal imaging of nonlinear optics in van der Waals waveguides

Ding Xu, Zhi Hao Peng, Chiara Trovatello +6

Van der Waals (vdW) semiconductors have emerged as promising platforms for efficient nonlinear optical conversion, including harmonic and entangled photon generation. Although majo…

physics.optics2024

Femtosecond switching of strong light-matter interactions in microcavities with two-dimensional semiconductors

Armando Genco, Charalambos Louca, Cristina Cruciano +14

Ultrafast all-optical logic devices based on nonlinear light-matter interactions hold the promise to overcome the speed limitations of conventional electronic devices. Strong coupl…

physics.optics2023★ 51 cited

Quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion in periodically poled layered semiconductors

Chiara Trovatello, Carino Ferrante, Birui Yang +15

Nonlinear optics lies at the heart of classical and quantum light generation. The invention of periodic poling revolutionized nonlinear optics and its commercial applications by en…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 1 cited

Programmable Nanowrinkle-Induced Room-Temperature Exciton Localization in Monolayer WSe2

Emanuil S. Yanev, Thomas P. Darlington, Sophia A. Ladyzhets +8

Localized states in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been the subject of intense study, driven by potential applications in quantum information sc…

physics.optics2023★ 10 cited

Measurement principles for quantum spectroscopy of molecular materials with entangled photons

Luca Moretti, Esteban Rojas-Gatjens, Lorenzo Uboldi +8

Nonlinear spectroscopy with quantum entangled photons is an emerging field of research that holds the promise to achieve a superior signal-to-noise ratio and effectively isolate ma…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 38 cited

Strong Coupling of Coherent Phonons to Excitons in Semiconducting Monolayer MoTe

Charles J. Sayers, Armando Genco, Chiara Trovatello +8

The coupling of the electron system to lattice vibrations and their time-dependent control and detection provides unique insight into the non-equilibrium physics of semiconductors.…

physics.optics2022★ 67 cited

Parametric Nonlinear Optics with Layered Materials and Related Heterostructures

O. Dogadov, C. Trovatello, B. Yao +2

Nonlinear optics is of crucial importance in several fields of science and technology with applications in frequency conversion, entangled-photon generation, self-referencing of fr…

physics.optics2022★ 124 cited

Towards compact phase-matched and waveguided nonlinear optics in atomically layered semiconductors

Xinyi Xu, Chiara Trovatello, Fabian Mooshammer +6

Nonlinear frequency conversion provides essential tools for light generation, photon entanglement, and manipulation. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess huge nonlinear…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 43 cited

Nonlinear interactions of dipolar excitons and polaritons in MoS2 bilayers

Charalambos Louca, Armando Genco, Salvatore Chiavazzo +12

Nonlinear interactions between excitons strongly coupled to light are key for accessing quantum many-body phenomena in polariton systems. Atomically-thin two-dimensional semiconduc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Hot-Carrier Cooling in High-Quality Graphene is Intrinsically Limited by Optical Phonons

Eva A. A. Pogna, Xiaoyu Jia, Alessandro Principi +20

Many promising optoelectronic devices, such as broadband photodetectors, nonlinear frequency converters, and building blocks for data communication systems, exploit photoexcited ch…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 62 cited

Exciton-phonon coupling strength in single-layer MoSe2 at room temperature

Donghai Li, Chiara Trovatello, Stefano Dal Conte +6

Single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides are at the center of an ever increasing research effort both in terms of fundamental physics and applications. Exciton-phonon coupling…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 29 cited

Time-dependent screening explains the ultrafast excitonic signal rise in 2D semiconductors

Valerie Smejkal, Florian Libisch, Alejandro Molina-Sanchez +2

We calculate the time evolution of the transient reflection signal in an MoS monolayer on a SiO/Si substrate using first-principles out-of-equilibrium real-time methods. Ou…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 134 cited

The ultrafast onset of exciton formation in 2D semiconductors

Chiara Trovatello, Florian Katsch, Nicholas J. Borys +11

The equilibrium and non-equilibrium optical properties of single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are determined by strongly bound excitons. Exciton relaxation dynamic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 86 cited

Strongly coupled coherent phonons in single-layer MoS

C. Trovatello, H. P. C. Miranda, A. Molina-Sánchez +15

We present a transient absorption setup combining broadband detection over the visible-UV range with high temporal resolution (20fs) which is ideally suited to trigger and de…

physics.optics2019★ 1 cited

Broadband optical parametric amplification by two-dimensional semiconductors

Chiara Trovatello, Andrea Marini, Xinyi Xu +11

Optical parametric amplification is a second-order nonlinear process whereby an optical signal is amplified by a pump via the generation of an idler field. It is the key ingredient…