Kin Fai Mak, Keliang He, Changgu Lee, Gwan Hyoung Lee, James Hone, Tony F. Heinz & Jie Shan
Published online: 02 December 2012 | doi:10.1038/nmat3505
The appealing electronic properties of the monolayer semiconductor molybdenum disulphide make it a candidate material for electronic devices. The observation of tightly bound trions in this system—which have no analogue in conventional semiconductors—opens up possibilities for controlling these quasiparticles in future optoelectronic applications.