Valley dynamics probed through charged and neutral exciton emission in monolayer WSe2
By Gang Wang, L. Bouet, D. Lagarde, M. Vidal, A. Balocchi, T. Amand, Xavier Marie, Bernhard Urbaszek. 2014
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Optical interband transitions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides such as WSe2 and MoS2 are governed by chiral selection rules. This allows efficient optical initialization of an electron in a specific K valley in momentum space. Here we probe the valley dynamics in monolayer WSe2 by monitoring the emission and polarization dynamics of the well-separated neutral excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) and charged excitons (trions) in photoluminescence. The neutral exciton photoluminescence intensity decay time is about 4 ps, whereas the trion emission occurs over several tens of ps. The trion polarization dynamics shows a partial, fast initial decay within tens of ps before reaching a stable polarization of ≈20%, for which a typical valley polarization decay time of the order of 1 ns can be inferred. © 2014 American Physical Society.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry
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