Narrow-band high-lying excitons with negative-mass electrons in monolayer WSe2

Here, the authors report on evidence of an excitonic species formed by electrons in high-energy conduction band states with a negative effective mass, explaining previous observations of quantum interference phenomena in two-dimensional semiconductors.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kai-Qiang Lin, Chin Shen Ong, Sebastian Bange, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Bo Peng, Jonas D. Ziegler, Jonas Zipfel, Christian Bäuml, Nicola Paradiso, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christoph Strunk, Bartomeu Monserrat, Jaroslav Fabian, Alexey Chernikov, Diana Y. Qiu, Steven G. Louie, John M. Lupton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25499-2