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Journal of Semiconductors, Volume. 43, Issue 8, 082001(2022)

Valley dynamics of different excitonic states in monolayer WSe₂ grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Shengmin Hu^1,2, Jialiang Ye^1,2, Ruiqi Liu^1,2, and Xinhui Zhang^1,2、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

²College of Materials Science and Opto-electronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Received: Jan. 27, 2022

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Published Online: Aug. 23, 2022

The Author Email: Zhang Xinhui (xinhuiz@semi.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1088/1674-4926/43/8/082001

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