Phonon Sidebands in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017

Excitons dominate the optical properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Besides optically accessible bright exciton states, TMDs exhibit also a multitude of optically forbidden dark excitons. Here, we show that efficient exciton-phonon scattering couples bright and dark states and gives rise to an asymmetric excitonic line shape. The observed asymmetry can be traced back to phonon-induced sidebands that are accompanied by a polaron redshift. We present a joint theory-experiment study investigating the microscopic origin of these sidebands in different TMD materials taking into account intra and intervalley scattering channels opened by optical and acoustic phonons. The gained insights contribute to a better understanding of the optical fingerprint of these technologically promising nanomaterials.

Författare

D. Christiansen

Technische Universität Berlin

M. Selig

Technische Universität Berlin

Gunnar Berghäuser

Chalmers, Fysik, Kondenserade materiens teori

R. Schmidt

Universität Münster

I. Niehues

Universität Münster

R. Schneider

Universität Münster

A. Arora

Universität Münster

S. M. de Vasconcellos

Universität Münster

R. Bratschitsch

Universität Münster

Ermin Malic

Chalmers, Fysik, Kondenserade materiens teori

A. Knorr

Technische Universität Berlin

Physical Review Letters

0031-9007 (ISSN) 1079-7114 (eISSN)

Vol. 119 18 187402

Ämneskategorier

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Den kondenserade materiens fysik

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.187402

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