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    Nano-imaging of intersubband transitions in van der Waals quantum wells

    The science and applications of electronics and optoelectronics have been driven for decades by progress in the growth of semiconducting heterostructures. Many applications in the infrared and terahertz freque...

    Peter Schmidt, Fabien Vialla, Simone Latini, Mathieu Massicotte in Nature Nanotechnology (2018)

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    Dissociation of two-dimensional excitons in monolayer WSe2

    Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting materials are promising building blocks for optoelectronic applications, many of which require efficient dissociation of excitons into free electrons and holes. However, the...

    Mathieu Massicotte, Fabien Vialla, Peter Schmidt in Nature Communications (2018)

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    Ultrafast nonlinear optical response of Dirac fermions in graphene

    The speed of solid-state electronic devices, determined by the temporal dynamics of charge carriers, could potentially reach unprecedented petahertz frequencies through direct manipulation by optical fields, c...

    Matthias Baudisch, Andrea Marini, Joel D. Cox, Tony Zhu in Nature Communications (2018)

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    Out-of-plane heat transfer in van der Waals stacks through electron–hyperbolic phonon coupling

    Van der Waals heterostructures have emerged as promising building blocks that offer access to new physics, novel device functionalities and superior electrical and optoelectronic properties 1

    Klaas-Jan Tielrooij, Niels C. H. Hesp, Alessandro Principi in Nature Nanotechnology (2018)

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    Tuning ultrafast electron thermalization pathways in a van der Waals heterostructure

    Interlayer transport can be made to occur slower or faster than intralayer scattering in van der Waals heterostructures, allowing the thermalization pathways for optically excited carriers to be tuned.

    Qiong Ma, Trond I. Andersen, Nityan L. Nair, Nathaniel M. Gabor in Nature Physics (2016)