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Brightening the dark excitons

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Two independent methods using near-field coupling to surface plasmon polaritons and magnetic brightening allow the observation of dark excitons in WSe2.

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Figure 1: Schematic illustration of bright and dark excitonic states.

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Loh, K. Brightening the dark excitons. Nature Nanotech 12, 837–838 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.130

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