• Marvin Kulig
  • Jonas Zipfel
  • Philipp Nagler
  • Sofia Blanter
  • Christian Schüller
  • Tobias Korn
  • Nicola Paradiso
  • Mikhail M. Glazov
  • Alexey Chernikov

We directly monitor exciton propagation in freestanding and SiO2-supported WS2 monolayers through spatially and time-resolved microphotoluminescence under ambient conditions. We find a highly nonlinear behavior with characteristic, qualitative changes in the spatial profiles of the exciton emission and an effective diffusion coefficient increasing from 0.3 to more than 30 cm2/s, depending on the injected exciton density. Solving the diffusion equation while accounting for Auger recombination allows us to identify and quantitatively understand the main origin of the increase in the observed diffusion coefficient. At elevated excitation densities, the initial Gaussian distribution of the excitons evolves into long-lived halo shapes with μm-scale diameter, indicating additional memory effects in the exciton dynamics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number207401
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume120
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 May 2018

    Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

    Research areas

  • TRANSITION-METAL DICHALCOGENIDES, ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS, QUANTUM-WELLS, WSE2, TRANSPORT, WS2, EXCITATION, MOS2, CU2O, PHOTOLUMINESCENCE

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