Optical spectroscopy of interlayer excitons in TMDC heterostructures: Exciton dynamics, interactions, and giant valley-selective magnetic splitting
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Abstract
Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently emerged as a promising class of materials. A fascinating aspect of these atomically thin crystals is the possibility of combining different TMDCs into heterostructures. For several TMDC combinations, a staggered band alignment occurs, so that optically excited electron-hole pairs are spatially separated into different layers and form interlayer excitons (IEX). Here, we report on time-resolved, low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) of these IEX in a MoSe2-WSe2 heterostructure. In the time-resolved measurements, we observe indications of IEX diffusion in an inhomogeneous potential landscape. Excitation-density-dependent measurements reveal a dipolar, repulsive exciton-exciton interaction. PL measurements in applied magnetic fields show a giant valley-selective splitting of the IEX luminescence, with an effective g factor of about -15. This large value stems from the alignment of K+ and K-valleys of the constituent monolayers in our heterostructure, making intervalley transitions optically bright, so that contributions to the field-induced splitting arising from electron and hole valley magnetic moments add up. This giant splitting enables us to generate a near-unity valley polarization of interlayer excitons even under linearly polarized excitation by applying sufficiently large magnetic fields.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXII |
Editors | Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi, Markus Betz |
Publisher | SPIE - The international society for optics and photonics, Bellingham |
ISBN (electronic) | 9781510615458 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
Series | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
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Volume | 10530 |
ISSN | 0277-786X |
Conference
Title | Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXII 2018 |
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Duration | 29 - 31 January 2018 |
City | San Francisco |
Country | United States of America |
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Keywords
- interlayer excitons, optical spectroscopy, Transition metal dichalcogenides, van der Waals heterostructures