Trion formation resolves observed peak shifts in the optical spectra of transition metal dichalcogenides

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Hauptverfasser: Sayer, Thomas, Farah, Yusef R., Austin, Rachelle, Sambur, Justin, Krummel, Amber T., Montoya-Castillo, Andrés
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author Sayer, Thomas
Farah, Yusef R.
Austin, Rachelle
Sambur, Justin
Krummel, Amber T.
Montoya-Castillo, Andrés
author_facet Sayer, Thomas
Farah, Yusef R.
Austin, Rachelle
Sambur, Justin
Krummel, Amber T.
Montoya-Castillo, Andrés
contents Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have the potential to unlock novel photonic and chemical technologies if their optoelectronic properties can be understood and controlled. Yet, recent work has offered contradictory explanations for how TMD absorption spectra change with carrier concentration, fluence, and time. Here, we test our hypothesis that the large broadening and shifting of the strong band-edge features observed in optical spectra arise from the formation of negative trions. We do this by fitting an ab initio based, many-body model to our experimental electrochemical data. Our approach provides an excellent, global description of the potential-dependent linear absorption data. We further leverage our model to demonstrate that trion formation explains the non-monotonic potential dependence of the transient absorption spectra, including through photoinduced derivative lineshapes for the trion peak. Our results motivate the continued development of theoretical methods to describe cutting-edge experiments in a physically transparent way.
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spellingShingle Trion formation resolves observed peak shifts in the optical spectra of transition metal dichalcogenides
Sayer, Thomas
Farah, Yusef R.
Austin, Rachelle
Sambur, Justin
Krummel, Amber T.
Montoya-Castillo, Andrés
Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Chemical Physics
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have the potential to unlock novel photonic and chemical technologies if their optoelectronic properties can be understood and controlled. Yet, recent work has offered contradictory explanations for how TMD absorption spectra change with carrier concentration, fluence, and time. Here, we test our hypothesis that the large broadening and shifting of the strong band-edge features observed in optical spectra arise from the formation of negative trions. We do this by fitting an ab initio based, many-body model to our experimental electrochemical data. Our approach provides an excellent, global description of the potential-dependent linear absorption data. We further leverage our model to demonstrate that trion formation explains the non-monotonic potential dependence of the transient absorption spectra, including through photoinduced derivative lineshapes for the trion peak. Our results motivate the continued development of theoretical methods to describe cutting-edge experiments in a physically transparent way.
title Trion formation resolves observed peak shifts in the optical spectra of transition metal dichalcogenides
topic Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12297