Enhanced Emission from Interlayer Excitons Coupled to Plasmonic Gap Cavities

Autor: Thinh N. Tran, Zai-Quan Xu, Tieshan Yang, Simon J. U. White, Licheng Xiao, Minh Nguyen, Sejeong Kim, Stefan Strauf, Igor Aharonovich
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany). 17(45)
ISSN: 1613-6829
Popis: The emergence of interlayer excitons (IEs) from atomic layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) heterostructures has drawn tremendous attention due to their unique and exotic optoelectronic properties. Coupling the IEs into optical cavities provides distinctive electromagnetic environments which plays an important role in controlling multiple optical processes such as optical nonlinear generation or photoluminescence enhancement. Here, the integration of IEs in TMDCs into plasmonic nanocavities based on a nanocube on a metallic mirror is reported. Spectroscopic studies reveal an order of magnitude enhancement of the IE at room temperature and a 5-time enhancement in fluorescence at cryogenic temperatures. Cavity modeling reveals that the enhancement of the emission is attributed to both increased excitation efficiency and Purcell effect from the cavity. The results show a novel method to control the excitonic processes in TMDC heterostructures to build high performance photonics and optoelectronics devices.
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