Brem, Samuel and Zipfel, Jonas and Selig, Malte and Raja, Archana and Waldecker, Lutz and Ziegler, Jonas D. and Taniguchi, Takashi and Watanabe, Kenji and Chernikov, Alexey and Malic, Ermin (2019) Intrinsic lifetime of higher excitonic states in tungsten diselenide monolayers. NANOSCALE, 11 (25). pp. 12381-12387. ISSN 2040-3364, 2040-3372
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The reduced dielectric screening in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides allows to study the hydrogen-like series of higher exciton states in optical spectra even at room temperature. The width of excitonic peaks provides information about the radiative decay and phonon-assisted scattering channels limiting the lifetime of these quasi-particles. While linewidth studies so far have been limited to the exciton ground state, encapsulation with hBN has recently enabled quantitative measurements of the broadening of excited exciton resonances. Here, we present a joint experiment-theory study combining microscopic calculations with spectroscopic measurements on the intrinsic linewidth and lifetime of higher exciton states in hBN-encapsulated WSe2 monolayers. Surprisingly, despite the increased number of scattering channels, we find both in theory and experiment that the linewidth of higher excitonic states is similar or even smaller compared to the ground state. Our microscopic calculations ascribe this behavior to a reduced exciton-phonon scattering efficiency for higher excitons due to spatially extended orbital functions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Divisions: | Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Junior Research Group Alexey Chernikov |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2020 06:31 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Apr 2020 06:31 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/26649 |
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