2020/10/21 by Takashi Kuroda, Yusuke Hoshi, Satoru Masubuchi +5
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #2D Materials and Applications #Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques #Atomic physics #Condensed matter physics #Exciton #Luminescence #Optics #Perovskite Materials and Applications #Photoluminescence #Physics #Picosecond #Relaxation (psychology) #Scattering #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.102.195407
published as Phys. Rev. B 102, 195407 (2020); open access · 8 pages, 7 figures
arxiv created 2020/10/21 · openalex created_date 2020/10/29 · openalex publication_date 2020/11/05 · arxiv updated 2020/11/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
The luminescence yield of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers frequently suffers from the formation of long-lived dark states, which include excitons with intervalley charge carriers, spin-forbidden transitions, and a large center-of-mass momentum located outside the light cone of dispersion relations. Efficient relaxation from bright exciton states to dark states suppresses the quantum yield of photon emission. In addition, the radiative recombination of excitons is heavily influenced by Auger-type exciton-exciton scattering, which yields another nonradiative relaxation channel at room temperature. Here, we show that Auger-type scattering is promoted not only between (bright) excitons but also between excitons and long-lived dark states. We studied the luminescence dynamics of monolayer WS2 capped with hexagonal BN over broad time ranges of picoseconds to milliseconds using carefully designed pump-and-probe techniques. We observed that luminescence quenching associated with Auger-type scattering occurs on 1--100-\ensuremathμs timescales, which thus correspond to the lifetimes of the relevant dark states. The broad distribution of the measured lifetimes implies the impact of various types of long-lived states on the exciton annihilation process.