Nonlinear light absorption in Ti3C2Tx MXene: a theoretical study
Hayk Minassian, Armen Melikyan, Manuel Rodrigues Gonçalves, Petros Petrosyan
TL;DR
This paper explains how titanium carbide MXene absorbs light in a nonlinear way using its electronic band structure and density matrix theory.
Contribution
The study introduces a novel theoretical approach to calculate nonlinear absorption in MXene using its band structure and density matrix theory.
Findings
Nonlinear absorption in titanium carbide MXene was calculated using a two-band model and density matrix theory.
The saturation dynamics of absorption were revealed for pump wavelengths between 1000 nm and 1500 nm.
The microscopic mechanism of nonlinear absorption was explained based on the MXene's band structure.
Abstract
Nonlinear absorption of MXenes has been investigated experimentally in several recent publications, and applications of these new 2D materials in broadband ultrafast photonics has already been demonstrated. In particular, MXenes have been used in the generation of highly stable femtosecond pulses in mode-locked fiber lasers. The optical nonlinearities appearing in different MXenes in the vis-NIR wavelength range have been explained theoretically based on the theory of saturation of nonlinear absorption in a two-level atomic system. This approach requires a fitting procedure applied to determine the saturation intensity of the MXene. However, this approximation does not account for the band structure of MXene, and therefore the microscopic character of the saturation of nonlinear absorption is still not understood. In this communication we use published results of calculations of the…
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Taxonomy
TopicsMXene and MAX Phase Materials · 2D Materials and Applications · Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research