Dark excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides
By E. Malic, M. Selig, Maja Feierabend, S. Brem, D. Christiansen, F. Wendler, A. Knorr, G. Berghauser. 2017
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Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a remarkably strong Coulomb interaction that manifests in tightly bound excitons. Due to the complex electronic band structure exhibiting several spin-split valleys in the conduction and valence band, dark excitonic states can be formed. They are inaccessibly by light due to the required spin-flip and/or momentum transfer. The relative position of these dark states with respect to the optically accessible bright excitons has a crucial impact on the emission efficiency of these materials and thus on their technological potential. Based on the solution of the Wannier equation, we present the excitonic landscape of the most studied TMD materials including the spectral position of momentum- and spin-forbidden excitonic states. We show that the knowledge of the electronic dispersion does not allow to conclude about the nature of the material's band gap, since excitonic effects can give rise to significant changes. Furthermore, we reveal that an exponentially reduced photoluminescence yield does not necessarily reflect a transition from a direct to a non-direct gap material, but can be ascribed in most cases to a change of the relative spectral distance between bright and dark excitonic states.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Exciton physics and device application of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors (2018, background): “e phenomena, such as the formation of different types of excitons including optically allowed and forbidden dark excitons (Fig. 2a), as well as spatially separated interlayer exciton states (Fig. 2b) [43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48]. They exhibit binding energies in the range of 0.5 eV, which is one to two ”