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Spin-valley dynamics in alloy-based transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers. / Kravtsov, Vasily; Liubomirov, Aleksey D.; Cherbunin, Roman V.; Catanzaro, Alessandro; Genco, Armando; Gillard, Daniel; Alexeev, Evgeny M.; Ivanova, Tatiana; Khestanova, Ekaterina; Shelykh, Ivan A.; Tartakovskii, Alexander I.; Skolnick, Maurice S.; Krizhanovskii, Dmitry N.; Iorsh, Ivan V.
In: 2D Materials, Vol. 8, No. 2, 025011, 01.04.2021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Spin-valley dynamics in alloy-based transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers
AU - Kravtsov, Vasily
AU - Liubomirov, Aleksey D.
AU - Cherbunin, Roman V.
AU - Catanzaro, Alessandro
AU - Genco, Armando
AU - Gillard, Daniel
AU - Alexeev, Evgeny M.
AU - Ivanova, Tatiana
AU - Khestanova, Ekaterina
AU - Shelykh, Ivan A.
AU - Tartakovskii, Alexander I.
AU - Skolnick, Maurice S.
AU - Krizhanovskii, Dmitry N.
AU - Iorsh, Ivan V.
N1 - Funding Information: The authors acknowledge funding from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation through Megagrant No. 14.Y26.31.0015. Time-resolved experiments were funded by the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 19-72-00146. Heterobilayer assembly was funded by the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 20-72-00157. A.D.L. and R.V.C. acknowledge Saint-Petersburg State University for a research Grant No. 51125686. V.K. acknowledges support by the Government of the Russian Federation through the ITMO Fellowship and Professorship Program. A.C. and A.I.T. thank the financial support of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under ITN Spin-NANO Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 676108. A.G., D.G. and A.I.T. acknowledge funding by EPSRC (EP/P026850/1 and EP/S030751/1). E.M.A. and A.I.T. thank the financial support of the Graphene Flag-ship Project under Grant Agreements 696656 and 785219. We thank Mikhail M. Glazov for helpful discussion. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/4/1
Y1 - 2021/4/1
N2 - Van der Waals heterobilayers based on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides have been recently shown to support robust and long-lived valley polarization for potential valleytronic applications. However, the roles of the chemical composition and geometric alignment of the constituent layers in the underlying dynamics remain largely unexplored. Here we study spin-valley relaxation dynamics in heterobilayers with different structures and optical properties engineered via the use of alloyed monolayer semiconductors. Through a combination of time-resolved Kerr rotation spectroscopic measurements and theoretical modeling for Mo1 − xWxSe2/WSe2 samples with different chemical compositions and stacking angles, we uncover the contributions of the interlayer exciton recombination and charge carrier spin depolarization to the overall valley dynamics. We show that the corresponding decay rates can be tuned in a wide range in transitions from a misaligned to an aligned structure, and from a hetero- to a homo-bilayer. Our results provide insights into the microscopic spin-valley polarization mechanisms in van der Waals heterostructures for the development of future 2D valleytronic devices.
AB - Van der Waals heterobilayers based on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides have been recently shown to support robust and long-lived valley polarization for potential valleytronic applications. However, the roles of the chemical composition and geometric alignment of the constituent layers in the underlying dynamics remain largely unexplored. Here we study spin-valley relaxation dynamics in heterobilayers with different structures and optical properties engineered via the use of alloyed monolayer semiconductors. Through a combination of time-resolved Kerr rotation spectroscopic measurements and theoretical modeling for Mo1 − xWxSe2/WSe2 samples with different chemical compositions and stacking angles, we uncover the contributions of the interlayer exciton recombination and charge carrier spin depolarization to the overall valley dynamics. We show that the corresponding decay rates can be tuned in a wide range in transitions from a misaligned to an aligned structure, and from a hetero- to a homo-bilayer. Our results provide insights into the microscopic spin-valley polarization mechanisms in van der Waals heterostructures for the development of future 2D valleytronic devices.
KW - 2D alloys
KW - Transition metal dichalcogenides
KW - Ultrafast dynamics
KW - Valleytronics
KW - MONOLAYER MOS2
KW - transition metal dichalcogenides
KW - ultrafast dynamics
KW - WAALS
KW - valleytronics
KW - CHARGE-TRANSFER
KW - POLARIZATION
KW - INTERLAYER EXCITONS
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U2 - 10.1088/2053-1583/abcf12
DO - 10.1088/2053-1583/abcf12
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099199629
VL - 8
JO - 2D Materials
JF - 2D Materials
SN - 2053-1583
IS - 2
M1 - 025011
ER -
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