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The asymmetry of light–matter coupling in momentum space of transition metal dichalcogenides drives valley photocurrents in WSe2-based devices.

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Figure 1: Field-effect transistor on a WSe2 surface with a transparent ionic gel gate.

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  1. Sergey Tarasenko is at the Ioffe Institute, Politechnicheskaya 26, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia,

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Tarasenko, S. Valley currents controlled by light. Nature Nanotech 9, 752–753 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.227

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