Direct exciton emission from atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures near the lifetime limit

Abstract

We demonstrate the reduction of the inhomogeneous linewidth of the free excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) MoSe${}_2$, WSe${}_2$ and MoS${}_2$ by encapsulation within few nanometer thick hBN. Encapsulation is shown to result in a significant reduction of the 10K excitonic linewidths down to $\sim 3.5\text{ meV}$ for n-MoSe${}_2$, $\sim 5.0\text{ meV}$ for p-WSe${}_2$ and $\sim 4.8\text{ meV}$ for n-MoS${}_2$. Evidence is obtained that the hBN environment effectively lowers the Fermi level since the relative spectral weight shifts towards the neutral exciton emission in n-doped TMDCs and towards charged exciton emission in p-doped TMDCs. Moreover, we find that fully encapsulated MoS${}_2$ shows resolvable exciton and trion emission even after high power density excitation in contrast to non-encapsulated materials. Our findings suggest that encapsulation of mechanically exfoliated few-monolayer TMDCs within nanometer thick hBN dramatically enhances optical quality, producing ultra-narrow linewidths that approach the homogeneous limit.

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