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Ultrafast Interlayer Electron Transfer in Incommensurate Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Homobilayers

Journal

NANO LETTERS
Volume 17, Issue 11, Pages 6661-6666

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02608

Keywords

van der Waals interface; transition metal dichalcogenide; electron transfer; transient absorption; two-dimensional material

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11275203]
  2. Technological Development Grant of Hefei Science Center of CAS [2014TDG-HSC002]
  3. Madison AMP
  4. Lila Self Graduate Fellowship
  5. National Science Foundation of USA [DMR-1505852]

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Two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and phosphorene, can be used to construct van der Waals multilayer structures. This approach has shown potentials to produce new materials that combine novel properties of the participating individual layers. One key requirement for effectively harnessing emergent properties of these materials is electronic connection of the involved atomic layers through efficient interlayer charge or energy transfer. Recently, ultrafast charge transfer on a time scale shorter than 100 fs has been observed in several van der Waals bilayer heterostructures formed by two different materials. However, information on the transfer between two atomic layers of the same type is rare. Because these homobilayers are essential elements in Constructing multilayer structures with desired optoelectronic properties, efficient interlayer transfer is highly desired. Here we show that electron transfer between two monolayers of MoSe2 occurs on a picosecond time scale. Even faster transfer was observed in homobilayers of WS2 and WSe2. The samples were fabricated by manually stacking two exfoliated monolayer flakes. By adding a graphene layer as a fast carrier recombination channel for one of the two monolayers, the transfer of the photoexcited carriers from the populated to the drained monolayers was time-resolved by femtosecond transient absorption measurements. The observed efficient interlayer carrier transfer indicates that such homobilayers can be used in van der Waals multilayers to enhance their optical absorption without significantly compromising the interlayer transport performance. Our results also provide valuable information for understanding interlayer charge transfer in heterostructures.

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