Indirect to direct band gap crossover in two-dimensional WS2(1−x)Se2x alloys

Abstract In atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, there is a crossover from indirect to direct band gap as the thickness drops to one monolayer, which comes with a fast increase of the photoluminescence signal. Here, we show that for different alloy compositions of WS2(1−x)...

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Autores principales: Cyrine Ernandes, Lama Khalil, Hela Almabrouk, Debora Pierucci, Biyuan Zheng, José Avila, Pavel Dudin, Julien Chaste, Fabrice Oehler, Marco Pala, Federico Bisti, Thibault Brulé, Emmanuel Lhuillier, Anlian Pan, Abdelkarim Ouerghi
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/4f5cee023c774f3f8aba36b5f4a4d72c
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Sumario:Abstract In atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, there is a crossover from indirect to direct band gap as the thickness drops to one monolayer, which comes with a fast increase of the photoluminescence signal. Here, we show that for different alloy compositions of WS2(1−x)Se2x this trend may be significantly affected by the alloy content and we demonstrate that the sample with the highest Se ratio presents a strongly reduced effect. The highest micro-PL intensity is found for bilayer WS2(1−x)Se2x (x = 0.8) with a decrease of its maximum value by only a factor of 2 when passing from mono-layer to bi-layer. To better understand this factor and explore the layer-dependent band structure evolution of WS2(1−x)Se2x , we performed a nano-angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study coupled with first-principles calculations. We find that the high micro-PL value for bilayer WS2(1−x)Se2x (x = 0.8) is due to the overlay of direct and indirect optical transitions. This peculiar high PL intensity in WS2(1−x)Se2x opens the way for spectrally tunable light-emitting devices.