Ultra-confined q2/3- plasmons and optical properties of graphene-transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures

TL;DR

This paper explores ultra-confined plasmons in graphene-transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures, revealing enhanced confinement, tunable optical properties, and unique plasmon dispersion behavior beneficial for optoelectronic devices.

Contribution

It introduces the analysis of q2/3 plasmon dispersion and optical properties in GrTMD heterostructures, highlighting their superior confinement and tunability over standalone graphene.

Findings

Plasmon confinement is significantly enhanced in GrTMD heterostructures.

Plasmon dispersion follows a q2/3 behavior, unlike the q1/2 in pure graphene.

Absorbance and transmittance increase with frequency and gate voltage.

Abstract

We report the interesting possibilities related to the plasmonics and the key parameters of optoelectronics, such as the absorbance and the transmittance, in Van der Waals heterostructures of graphene monolayer on 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (GrTMD) substrate here. We obtain the gapped bands with a Rashba spin-orbit coupling dependent pseudo Zeeman field due to the interplay of substrate induced interactions. This enables us to obtain an expression of the dielectric function in the finite doping case ignoring the spin-flip scattering events completely. We observe that the relative strength of screening is nearly a constant with relative to the changes in the the carrier density.The stronger confinement capability of GrTMD Plasmon(tunable)compared to that of standalone graphene is a major outcome of our analysis;the plasmon dispersion yields the q2/3 behavior and not the well known q1/2 behavior. We also find that the absorbance and the transmittance are increasing functions of the frequency and the gate voltage. This outcome is useful for devices utilizing photoconductivity and the photo-electric effect.