Optical properties of Fermi polarons in a GaInP/MoSe2 monolayer heterostructure

TL;DR

This study investigates the optical properties of Fermi polarons at a GaInP/MoSe2 heterostructure interface, revealing their potential for manipulating TMDC optical behavior in integrated photonic devices.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed analysis of Fermi polaron resonances at a TMDC heterointerface, combining experimental measurements with microscopic theory.

Findings

Verification of type II hetero-interface with disorder-free photoluminescence

Charged complexes exhibit substantial oscillator strength

Suppression of carrier recoil effect in photoluminescence

Abstract

Engineering optical properties, such as luminescence purity and charge transfer, is crucial for harnessing the application potential of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). While electrostatic gating is widely applied to gain charge control in TMDC monolayers, charge transfer can also be engineered via coupling of TMDC monolayers at semiconductor III/V, organic, or van der Waals interfaces. This confers great advantages, such as ease in implementation and compatibility in device integration. Here, we shed light on the optical properties of many-particle complexes emerging at the GaInP/MoSe2 interface as a highly relevant material combination to manipulate the optical properties of TMDCs in integrated photonic devices. Our study verifies its nature as a type II hetero-interface, which bears the feasibility to display disorder-free photoluminescence. Through optical absorption measurements, we verify that the charged complexes acquire substantial oscillator strength. Furthermore, temperature-dependent photoluminescence, supported by a microscopic theory framework, evidences the suppression of the characteristic carrier recoil effect that was previously observed in the photoluminescence of trions in TMDCs. These phenomena allow us to identify the optical signatures at the TMDC-GaInP interface as Fermi polaron quasiparticle resonances, which are of high importance in researching Bose-Fermi mixtures in condensed matter systems.