Large Photoluminescence Enhancement by an Out-of-Plane Magnetic Field in Exfoliated WS$_2$ Flakes
Sibai Sun1,2, Jianchen Dang1,2, Xin Xie1,2, Yang Yu1,2, Longlong Yang1,2, Shan Xiao1,2, Shiyao Wu1,2, Kai Peng1,2, Feilong Song1,2, Yunuan Wang1,3, Jingnan Yang1,2, Chenjiang Qian1,2, Zhanchun Zuo1,2, and Xiulai Xu1,2,4*
1Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 2CAS Center for Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation and School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 3Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information (Ministry of Education), Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China 4Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
Abstract:We report an out-of-plane magnetic field induced large photoluminescence enhancement in WS$_2$ flakes at $4$ K, in contrast to the photoluminescence enhancement provided by an in-plane field in general. Two mechanisms for the enhancement are proposed. One is a larger overlap of the electron and hole caused by the magnetic field induced confinement. The other is that the energy difference between $\varLambda$ and $K$ valleys is reduced by magnetic field, and thus enhancing the corresponding indirect-transition trions. Meanwhile, the Landé $g$ factor of the trion is measured to be $-0.8$, whose absolute value is much smaller than normal exciton, which is around $|-4|$. A model for the trion $g$ factor is presented, confirming that the smaller absolute value of the Landé $g$ factor is a behavior of this $\varLambda$–$K$ trion. By extending the valley space, we believe this work provides a further understanding of the valleytronics in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides.
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