All-electrical near-field injection of excitons in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

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Main Authors: Ziegler, Jonas D., Papadopoulos, Sotirios, Moilanen, Antti J., Valenzuela, Marcelo M., Lin, Qia, Mosina, Kseniia, Taniguchi, Takashi, Watanabe, Kenji, Sofer, Zdenek, Dirnberger, Florian, Novotny, Lukas
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author Ziegler, Jonas D.
Papadopoulos, Sotirios
Moilanen, Antti J.
Valenzuela, Marcelo M.
Lin, Qia
Mosina, Kseniia
Taniguchi, Takashi
Watanabe, Kenji
Sofer, Zdenek
Dirnberger, Florian
Novotny, Lukas
author_facet Ziegler, Jonas D.
Papadopoulos, Sotirios
Moilanen, Antti J.
Valenzuela, Marcelo M.
Lin, Qia
Mosina, Kseniia
Taniguchi, Takashi
Watanabe, Kenji
Sofer, Zdenek
Dirnberger, Florian
Novotny, Lukas
contents Van der Waals materials have become a promising building block for future electronics and photonics. The two-dimensional magnet CrSBr came into the spotlight of solid state research due to its intriguing combination of antiferromagnetic order, strong light-matter coupling and unusual quasi-1D electronic bandstructure. This study reports the electrical excitation of excitons in CrSBr layers from cryogenic temperatures up to room temperature. By exploiting the energy transfer via tunneling electrons in a graphene tunnel junction strongly bound excitons are excited in proximate CrSBr layers. This facilitates electrically-excited emission from CrSBr crystals ranging in thickness from a bilayer up to 250 nm, in which the strong linear polarization of the electroluminescence confirms the excitonic origin. For thicker layers, clear evidence for the electrically excited emission from self-hybridized exciton polaritons is observed, highlighting the strong coupling between optical excitations and confined photon modes in CrSBr. These results pave the way for future applications in spintronic and optical readout of magnetic properties.
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spellingShingle All-electrical near-field injection of excitons in a van der Waals antiferromagnet
Ziegler, Jonas D.
Papadopoulos, Sotirios
Moilanen, Antti J.
Valenzuela, Marcelo M.
Lin, Qia
Mosina, Kseniia
Taniguchi, Takashi
Watanabe, Kenji
Sofer, Zdenek
Dirnberger, Florian
Novotny, Lukas
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Van der Waals materials have become a promising building block for future electronics and photonics. The two-dimensional magnet CrSBr came into the spotlight of solid state research due to its intriguing combination of antiferromagnetic order, strong light-matter coupling and unusual quasi-1D electronic bandstructure. This study reports the electrical excitation of excitons in CrSBr layers from cryogenic temperatures up to room temperature. By exploiting the energy transfer via tunneling electrons in a graphene tunnel junction strongly bound excitons are excited in proximate CrSBr layers. This facilitates electrically-excited emission from CrSBr crystals ranging in thickness from a bilayer up to 250 nm, in which the strong linear polarization of the electroluminescence confirms the excitonic origin. For thicker layers, clear evidence for the electrically excited emission from self-hybridized exciton polaritons is observed, highlighting the strong coupling between optical excitations and confined photon modes in CrSBr. These results pave the way for future applications in spintronic and optical readout of magnetic properties.
title All-electrical near-field injection of excitons in a van der Waals antiferromagnet
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15457