Temperature Renormalization of Optical Spectra of Monolayer MoS2

Abstract

Newly measured optical absorption and photoluminescence spectra reveal substantial frequency shifts of both exciton and trion peaks as monolayer MoS2 is cooled from 363 K to 4 K. First-principles simulations using the GW-Bethe-Salpeter Equation approach satisfactorily reproduce these frequency shifts by incorporating many-electron interactions and the thermal expansion of the in-plane lattice constant. Studying these temperature effects in monolayer MoS2 is crucial for rectifying the results of room-temperature experiments with the previous predictions of zero-temperature-limit simulations. Moreover, we estimate that the thermal expansion coefficient of monolayer MoS2 is around 25% less than that of bulk counterpart by tracking the frequency shifts of the exciton or trion peaks in optical spectra. This may serve as a convenient way to estimate thermal expansion coefficients of general two-dimensional chalcogenides.

12 pages and 4 figures

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