Ultrafast Spontaneous Localization of a Jahn-Teller Exciton Polaron in Two-Dimensional Semiconducting CrI 3 by Symmetry Breaking

Li, Xufeng; Wang, Aolei; Chen, Hailong; Tao, Weijian; Chen, Zeng; Zhang, Chi; Li, Yujie; Zhang, Yiran; Shang, Honghui; Weng, Yu-Xiang; Zhao, Jin; Zhu, Haiming

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03689

Ultrafast Spontaneous Localization of a Jahn-Teller Exciton Polaron in Two-Dimensional Semiconducting CrI ₃ by Symmetry Breaking

Journal Article · 28 October 2022 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03689· OSTI ID:2424202

Li, Xufeng ^[1]; Wang, Aolei ^[2]; ^[3]; Tao, Weijian ^[1]; Chen, Zeng ^[1]; Zhang, Chi ^[1]; Li, Yujie ^[1]; Zhang, Yiran ^[1]; Shang, Honghui ^[2]; ^[3]; ^[2]; ^[4]

State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Key Laboratory of Excited-State Materials of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang310027, China
Department of Physics, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, and ICQD/Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui230026, China
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, The Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China
State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Key Laboratory of Excited-State Materials of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang310027, China; ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Hangzhou, Zhejiang311200, China

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 2424202

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Journal Name: Nano Letters Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 22; ISSN 1530-6984

Publisher:: American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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