Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 93, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.155435
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Funding
- National Research Fund, Luxembourg [C14/MS/773152/FAST-2DMAT, INTER/ANR/13/20/NANOTMD]
- European Science Foundation (ESF)
- EC [CoExAN GA644076]
- Futuro in Ricerca of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research MIUR [RBFR12SW0J]
- European Union [H2020-EINFRA-2015-1, 676598]
- Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis - Europe [H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015, 654360]
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Temperature influences the performance of two-dimensional (2D) materials in optoelectronic devices. Indeed, the optical characterization of these materials is usually realized at room temperature. Nevertheless, most ab initio studies are still performed without including any temperature effect. As a consequence, important features are thus overlooked, such as the relative height of the excitonic peaks and their broadening, directly related to the temperature and to the nonradiative exciton relaxation time. We present ab initio calculations of the optical response of single-layer MoS2, a prototype 2D material, as a function of temperature using density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory. We compute the electron-phonon interaction using the full spinorial wave functions, i.e., fully taking into account the effects of spin-orbit interaction. We find that bound excitons (A and B peaks) and resonant excitons (C peak) exhibit different behavior with temperature, displaying different nonradiative linewidths. We conclude that the inhomogeneous broadening of the absorption spectra is mainly due to electron-phonon scattering mechanisms. Our calculations explain the shortcomings of previous (zero-temperature) theoretical spectra and match well with the experimental spectra acquired at room temperature. Moreover, we disentangle the contributions of acoustic and optical phonon modes to the quasiparticles and exciton linewidths. Our model also allows us to identify which phonon modes couple to each exciton state, which is useful for the interpretation of resonant Raman-scattering experiments.
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