Dynamics of dark and bright excitons
30. November 2020 - 17:16
By varying the time between the exciton-generating pump pulse and the extreme ultraviolet pulse that kicked out the electrons, the scientists were able to construct a video showing how dark excitons (red) and bright excitons (blue) changed over time.
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Reprinted with permission from [Madéo et al.], Directly visualizing the momentum-forbidden dark excitons and their dynamics in atomically thin semiconductors AAAS Science 2020