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Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy At Ultra-low Temperatures
Published on: October 9, 2012
Directly Visualizing Photoinduced Renormalized Momentum-Forbidden Electronic Quantum States in an Atomically Thin
Hao-Yu Chen1, Hung-Chang Hsu1, Chuan-Chun Huang1
1Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Resolving the momentum degree of freedom of photoexcited charge carriers and exploring the excited-state physics in the hexagonal Brillouin zone of atomically thin semiconductors have recently attracted great interest for optoelectronic technologies. We demonstrate a combination of light-modulated scanning tunneling microscopy and the quasiparticle interference (QPI) technique to offer a directly accessible approach to reveal and quantify the unexplored momentum-forbidden electronic quantum states in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers. Our QPI results affirm the large spin-splitting energy at the spin-valley-coupled Q valleys in the conduction band (CB) of a tungsten disulfide monolayer. Furthermore, we also quantify the photoexcited carrier density-dependent band renormalization at the Q valleys. Our findings directly highlight the importance of the excited-state distribution at the Q valley in the band renormalization in TMDs and support the critical role of the CB Q valley in engineering the quantum electronic valley degree of freedom in TMD devices.
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