Filling Exciton Trap-States in Two-Dimensional Tungsten Disulfide (WS) and Diselenide (WSe) Monolayers

Overview

Journal Nanomaterials (Basel)

Date 2021 Apr 3

PMID 33803656

Citations 3

Authors

Zeynep Ezgi Eroglu

Dillon Contreras

Pouya Bahrami

Nurul Azam

Masoud Mahjouri-Samani

Abdelaziz Boulesbaa

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Abstract

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D-TMDs) hold a great potential to platform future flexible optoelectronics. The beating hearts of these materials are their excitons known as X and X, which arise from transitions between spin-orbit split (SOS) levels in the conduction and valence bands at the K-point. The functionality of 2D-TMD-based devices is determined by the dynamics of these excitons. One of the most consequential channels of exciton decay on the device functionality is the defect-assisted recombination (DAR). Here, we employ steady-state absorption and emission spectroscopies, and pump density-dependent femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy to report on the effect of DAR on the lifetime of excitons in monolayers of tungsten disulfide (2D-WS) and diselenide (2D-WSe). These pump-probe measurements suggested that while exciton decay dynamics in both monolayers are driven by DAR, in 2D-WS, defect states near the X exciton fill up before those near the X exciton. However, in the 2D-WSe monolayer, the defect states fill up similarly. Understanding the contribution of DAR on the lifetime of excitons and the partition of this decay channel between X and X excitons may open new horizons for the incorporation of 2D-TMD materials in future optoelectronics.

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