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Albert F Rigosi1, Heather M Hill1, Yilei Li1
1Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States.
Abstract:
We have applied optical absorption spectroscopy to investigate van der Waals heterostructures formed of pairs of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide crystals, choosing MoS2/WS2 and MoSe2/WSe2 as test cases. In the heterostructure spectra, we observe a significant broadening of the excitonic transitions compared to the corresponding features in the isolated layers. The broadening is interpreted as a lifetime effect arising from decay of excitons initially created in either layer through charge transfer processes expected for a staggered band alignment. The measured spectral broadening of 20 meV - 35 meV implies lifetimes for charge separation of the near band-edge A and B excitons in the range of 20-35 fs. Higher-lying transitions exhibit still greater broadening.
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