Electrical Tuning of Exciton Binding Energies in Monolayer WS_{2}

Author(s): Alexey Chernikov, Arend M. van der Zande, Heather M. Hill, Albert F. Rigosi, Ajanth Velauthapillai, James Hone, and Tony F. Heinz

An externally applied voltage in a transistor device can continuously tune the binding energy of excitons in monolayer WS${}_2$.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 126802] Published Wed Sep 16, 2015