A schematic of the photoexcited dipole dynamics in phosphorene nanoribbons (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

A schematic of the photoexcited dipole dynamics in phosphorene nanoribbons

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A schematic of the photoexcited dipole dynamics in phosphorene nanoribbons, where following photoexcitation the excited state relaxes to the ribbon edge. Here, the excitation is coupled to a symmetry forbidden edge phonon mode and is where the magnetism is likely present.

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Arjun Ashoka, Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge and Raj Pandya, who was a Junior Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory at the time of this research and is now at the University of Warwick.

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