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Tailoring MoS2 valley-polarized photoluminescence with super chiral near-field

  • Ziwei Li
  • , Changxu Liu
  • , Xin Rong
  • , Yang Luo
  • , Haotian Cheng
  • , Liheng Zheng
  • , Feng Lin
  • , Bo Shen
  • , Yongji Gong
  • , Shuang Zhang
  • , Zheyu Fang
  • Peking University
  • University of Birmingham

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Abstract

Transition metal dichalcogenides with intrinsic spin–valley degrees of freedom hold great potentials for applications in spintronic and val-leytronic devices. MoS2 monolayer possesses two inequivalent valleys in the Brillouin zone, with each valley coupling selectively with circularly polarized photons. The degree of valley polarization (DVP) is a parameter to characterize the purity of valley-polarized photoluminescence (PL) of MoS2 monolayer. Usually, the detected values of DVP in MoS2 monolayer show achiral property under optical excitation of opposite helicities due to reciprocal phonon-assisted intervalley scattering process. Here, it is reported that valley-polarized PL of MoS2 can be tailored through near-field interaction with plasmonic chiral metasurface. The resonant field of the chiral metasurface couples with valley-polarized excitons, and tailors the measured PL spectra in the far-field, resulting in observation of chiral DVP of MoS2-metasurface under opposite helicities excitations. Valley-contrast PL in the chiral heterostructure is also observed when illuminated by linearly polarized light. The manipulation of valley-polarized PL in 2D materials using chiral metasurface represents a viable route toward valley-polaritonic devices.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1801908
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume30
Issue number34
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2018

Keywords

  • Exciton
  • Metasurface
  • MoS
  • Photoluminescence
  • Plasmon interactions

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