Inverted valley polarization in optically excited transition metal dichalcogenides

Gunnar Berghäuser1, Ivan Bernal-Villamil2, Robert Schmidt3

  • 1Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, 41296, Sweden. gunbergh@chalmers.se.

Nature Communications
|March 8, 2018
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