Abstract
Excitons, as bound electron-hole paired quasiparticle, play an essential role in the energy transport in the optical-electric properties of semiconductors. Their momentum-energy dispersion relation is a fundamental physical property of great significance to understand exciton dynamics. However, this dispersion is seldom explored especially in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides with rich valleytronic properties. In this work, momentum resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy was used to measure the dispersions of excitons in freestanding monolayer WSe_{2}. Besides the parabolically dispersed valley excitons, a subgap dispersive exciton was observed at nonzero momenta for the first time, which can be introduced by the prolific Se vacancies. Our work provides a paradigm to directly probe exciton dispersions in 2D semiconductors and could be generalized to many low-dimensional systems.
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