We report light emission around 1200 nm from a vertical heterostructure consisting of M0S2 and WSe2 monolayers. The emission, arising from the fundamental interlayer exciton, can be tuned by nearly 100 nm by electrical gating.
Excitons
in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides have
a valley degree of freedom that can be optically manipulated for quantum
information processing. Here, we integrate MoS2 monolayers
with achiral silicon disk array metasurfaces to enhance and control
valley-specific absorption and emission. Through the coupling to the
metasurface electric and magnetic Mie modes, the intensity and lifetime
of the emission of neutral excitons, trions, and defect bound excitons
can be enhanced and shortened, respectively, while the spectral shape
can be modified. Additionally, the degree of polarization (DOP) of
exciton and trion emission from the valley can be symmetrically enhanced
at 100 K. The DOP increase is attributed to both the metasurface-enhanced
chiral absorption of light and the metasurface-enhanced exciton emission
from the Purcell effect. Combining Si-compatible photonic design with
large-scale 2D materials integration, our work makes an important
step toward on-chip valleytronic applications approaching room-temperature
operation.
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