Valleytronics: Innovative way to store and process information up to room temperature

Science Daily  September 8, 2023 The two degenerate valleys in transition metal dichalcogenides can be used to store and process information for quantum information science and technology. A major challenge is maintaining valley polarization at room temperature where phonon-induced intervalley scattering is prominent. A team of researchers in the US (Brookhaven National Laboratory, industry) has demonstrated room temperature valley polarization in heterostructures of monolayer MoS2 and naphthylethylammine based one-dimensional chiral lead halide perovskite. By optically exciting the heterostructures with linearly polarized light close to resonance and measuring the helicity resolved photoluminescence, they obtained a degree of polarization of up to […]