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- Title
Interlayer exciton mediated second harmonic generation in bilayer MoS<sub>2</sub>.
- Authors
Shree, Shivangi; Lagarde, Delphine; Lombez, Laurent; Robert, Cedric; Balocchi, Andrea; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Marie, Xavier; Gerber, Iann C.; Glazov, Mikhail M.; Golub, Leonid E.; Urbaszek, Bernhard; Paradisanos, Ioannis
- Abstract
Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a non-linear optical process, where two photons coherently combine into one photon of twice their energy. Efficient SHG occurs for crystals with broken inversion symmetry, such as transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Here we show tuning of non-linear optical processes in an inversion symmetric crystal. This tunability is based on the unique properties of bilayer MoS2, that shows strong optical oscillator strength for the intra- but also interlayer exciton resonances. As we tune the SHG signal onto these resonances by varying the laser energy, the SHG amplitude is enhanced by several orders of magnitude. In the resonant case the bilayer SHG signal reaches amplitudes comparable to the off-resonant signal from a monolayer. In applied electric fields the interlayer exciton energies can be tuned due to their in-built electric dipole via the Stark effect. As a result the interlayer exciton degeneracy is lifted and the bilayer SHG response is further enhanced by an additional two orders of magnitude, well reproduced by our model calculations. Since interlayer exciton transitions are highly tunable also by choosing twist angle and material combination our results open up new approaches for designing the SHG response of layered materials. Efficient second-harmonic generation (SHG) occurs for crystals with broken inversion symmetry, such as transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Here the authors show SHG tuning in bilayer MoS2 - an inversion-symmetric crystal - mediated by interlayer excitons.
- Subjects
SECOND harmonic generation; EXCITON theory; SYMMETRY breaking; STARK effect; OSCILLATOR strengths; TRANSITION metals
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-021-27213-8