Title
Magnetic-gateable valley exciton emission
Date Issued
01 December 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad de Brasilia
Publisher(s)
Nature Research
Abstract
The use of valley excitonic states of transition metal dichalcogenides to store and manipulate information is hampered by fast carrier recombination and short valley lifetime. We propose theoretically a scheme to overcome such an obstacle, by applying a tilted exchange field through the magnetic proximity effect on monolayer MoS2. While the in-plane component of the exchange field brightens the dark exciton by spin mixing, the out-of-plane field can effectively gate the emission with an ON/OFF ratio of 2700. Importantly, the brightening is valley selective, leading to nearly 100% valley and spin polarization at room temperature. The resulting strongly gateable dark-exciton emission with long lifetime and near unity valley polarization makes it convenient to manipulate the valley degree of freedom, which may offer new paradigm for information processing and transmission.
Volume
6
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85087542511
Source
npj Computational Materials
ISSN of the container
20573960
Sponsor(s)
The authors are grateful to CENAPAD-SP for the provision of computational facilities. This work was partially supported by CNPq, FAPDF, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoa-mento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, and US National Science Foundation (US NSF DMR-1104994 and CBET-1510121). The authors thank A. H. MacDonald and S.J. Xie for illuminating discussions.
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