Review Optical properties of TMDs: effect of layer thickness, strain etc.
Atomically thin MoS2: A new direct-gap semiconductor. K. F. Mak, Changgu Lee, J. Hone, J. Shan, and T. F. Heinz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136805 (2010).Experimental demonstration of continuous electronic structure tuning via strain in atomically thin MoS2 . K. He, K. F. Mak, C. Pools, and J. Shan, Nano Lett. 13, 2931–2936 (2013).
Optical properties of TMDs under a magnetic field
Valley- and spin-polarized Landau levels in monolayer WSe2. Z. Wang, J. Shan, and K. F. Mak, Nature Nanotech. doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.213 (2016).Valley degeneracy breaking by magnetic field in monolayer MoSe2 . D. MacNeill, C. Heikes, K. F. Mak, Z. Anderson, A. Kormányos, V. Zólyomi, J. Park, and D. C. Ralph, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 037401 (2015).
Excitonic effects in TMDs
Probing many-body interactions in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides. B. Scharf, Z. Wang, D. V. Tuan, J. Shan, K. F. Mak, I. Zutic, and H. Dery, arxiv.org/abs/1606.0710.Tightly bound excitons in monolayer WSe2. K. He, N. Kumar, L. Zhao, Z. Wang, K.F. Mak, H. Zhao, and J. Shan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 026803 (2014).Tightly bound trions in monolayer MoS2. K. F. Mak, Keliang He, Changgu Lee, Gwan Hyoung Lee, J. Hone, T.F. Heinz, and J. Shan, Nature Mater. 12, 207–211 (2013).Orientation of luminescent excitons in layered nanomaterials. J. A. Schuller, S. Karaveli, T. Schiros, K. He, S. Yang, I. Kymissis, J. Shan, and R. Zia, Nature Nanotech. 8, 271–276 (2013).
Ultrafast and nonlinear optical properties of TMDs
Optical coherence in atomic-monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides limited by electron-phonon interactions. P. Dey, J. Paul, Z. Wang, C. E. Stevens, C. Liu, A. H. Romero, J. Shan, D. J. Hilton, and D. Karaiskaj, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127402 (2016).Observation of intense second harmonic generation from MoS2 atomic crystals. L. M. Malard, T. V. Alencar, A.P.M. Barboza, K. F. Mak, and A.M. de Paula, Phys. Rev. B 87, 201401 (2013).Probing symmetry properties of few-layer MoS2 and h-BN by optical second-harmonic generation. Y. Li, Y. Rao, K. F. Mak, Y. You, S. Wang, C. R. Dean, and T. F. Heinz, Nano Lett. 13, 3329-3333 (2013).Controlling the spontaneous emission rate of monolayer MoS2 in a photonic crystal nanocavity. X. Gan, Y. Gao, K. F. Mak, X. Yao, R. J. Shiue, A. van der Zande, M. Trusheim, F. Hatami, T. F. Heinz, J. Hone, and D. Englund, Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 181119 (2013).