標題: Evidence of indirect gap in monolayer WSe2
作者: Hsu, Wei-Ting
Lu, Li-Syuan
Wang, Dean
Huang, Jing-Kai
Li, Ming-Yang
Chang, Tay-Rong
Chou, Yi-Chia
Juang, Zhen-Yu
Jeng, Horng-Tay
Li, Lain-Jong
Chang, Wen-Hao
電子物理學系
Department of Electrophysics
公開日期: 13-Oct-2017
摘要: Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, such as MoS2 and WSe2, have been known as direct gap semiconductors and emerged as new optically active materials for novel device applications. Here we reexamine their direct gap properties by investigating the strain effects on the photoluminescence of monolayer MoS2 and WSe2. Instead of applying stress, we investigate the strain effects by imaging the direct exciton populations in monolayer WSe2-MoS2 and MoSe2-WSe2 lateral heterojunctions with inherent strain inhomogeneity. We find that unstrained monolayer WSe2 is actually an indirect gap material, as manifested in the observed photoluminescence intensity-energy correlation, from which the difference between the direct and indirect optical gaps can be extracted by analyzing the exciton thermal populations. Our findings combined with the estimated exciton binding energy further indicate that monolayer WSe2 exhibits an indirect quasiparticle gap, which has to be reconsidered in further studies for its fundamental properties and device applications.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01012-6
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/143919
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01012-6
期刊: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume: 8
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