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- Title
Room-temperature high-speed electrical modulation of excitonic distribution in a monolayer semiconductor.
- Authors
Zhu, Guangpeng; Zhang, Lan; Li, Wenfei; Shi, Xiuqi; Zou, Zhen; Guo, Qianqian; Li, Xiang; Xu, Weigao; Jie, Jiansheng; Wang, Tao; Du, Wei; Xiong, Qihua
- Abstract
Excitons in monolayer semiconductors, benefitting from their large binding energies, hold great potential towards excitonic circuits bridging nano-electronics and photonics. However, achieving room-temperature ultrafast on-chip electrical modulation of excitonic distribution and flow in monolayer semiconductors is nontrivial. Here, utilizing lateral bias, we report high-speed electrical modulation of the excitonic distribution in a monolayer semiconductor junction at room temperature. The alternating charge trapping/detrapping at the two monolayer/electrode interfaces induces a non-uniform carrier distribution, leading to controlled in-plane spatial variations of excitonic populations, and mimicking a bias-driven excitonic flow. This modulation increases with the bias amplitude and eventually saturates, relating to the energetic distribution of trap density of states. The switching time of the modulation is down to 5 ns, enabling high-speed excitonic devices. Our findings reveal the trap-assisted exciton engineering in monolayer semiconductors and offer great opportunities for future two-dimensional excitonic devices and circuits. 2D excitonic devices hold potential for on-chip optoelectronic applications. Here, the authors report high-speed in-plane electrical modulations of the excitonic distribution in monolayer semiconductor/Au electrode junctions, showing switching times as low as 5 ns at room temperature.
- Subjects
SEMICONDUCTORS; MONOMOLECULAR films; SEMICONDUCTOR junctions; BRIDGE circuits; DENSITY of states
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-023-42568-w