Room-Temperature Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Two-Dimensional WS_{2} beyond Exciton Mott Transition

Yan Xu1, Yihan Xiang1, Meng Shi1

  • 1Wuhan University, Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, and School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan 430072, China.

Physical Review Letters
|February 28, 2025
PubMed
Summary

Researchers observed amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) from electron-hole plasma (EHP) in 2D semiconductors for the first time. This finding in bilayer WS_{2} advances understanding of many-body physics and optoelectronics.

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