2020/03/31 by Wencan Jin, Hyun Ho Kim, Zhipeng Ye +15
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #2D Materials and Applications #Antiferromagnetism #Character (mathematics) #Coupling (piping) #Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides #Exciton #Ferromagnetism #Iron-based superconductors research #Phonon #Photoluminescence #Polaron #Raman spectroscopy #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18627-x
published as Nature Communications 11, 4780 (2020) · 21 pages, 4 figures + Supplementary Information
arxiv created 2020/09/22 · openalex publication_date 2020/09/22 · arxiv updated 2020/09/23 · openalex created_date 2020/10/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Abstract Exciton dynamics can be strongly affected by lattice vibrations through electron-phonon coupling. This is rarely explored in two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors. Focusing on bilayer CrI 3 , we first show the presence of strong electron-phonon coupling through temperature-dependent photoluminescence and absorption spectroscopy. We then report the observation of periodic broad modes up to the 8th order in Raman spectra, attributed to the polaronic character of excitons. We establish that this polaronic character is dominated by the coupling between the charge-transfer exciton at 1.96 eV and a longitudinal optical phonon at 120.6 cm −1 . We further show that the emergence of long-range magnetic order enhances the electron-phonon coupling strength by ~50% and that the transition from layered antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic order tunes the spectral intensity of the periodic broad modes, suggesting a strong coupling among the lattice, charge and spin in two-dimensional CrI 3 . Our study opens opportunities for tailoring light-matter interactions in two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors.