Coulomb-Engineered Heterojunctions and Dynamical Screening in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers

Abstract

The manipulation of two-dimensional materials via their dielectric environment offers novel opportunities to control electronic as well as optical properties and allows to imprint nanostructures in a non-invasive way. Here we asses the potential of monolayer semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) for Coulomb engineering in a material realistic and quantitative manner. We compare the response of different TMDC materials to modifications of their dielectric surrounding, analyze effects of dynamic substrate screening, i.e. frequency dependencies in the dielectric functions, and discuss inherent length scales of Coulomb-engineered heterojunctions. We find symmetric and rigid-shift-like quasi-particle band-gap modulations for both, instantaneous and dynamic substrate screening. From this we derive short-ranged self energies for an effective multi-scale modeling of Coulomb engineered heterojunctions composed of an homogeneous monolayer placed on a spatially structured substrate. For these heterojunctions, we show that band gap modulations on the length scale of a few lattice constants are possible rendering external limitations of the substrate structuring more important than internal effects. We find that all semiconducting TMDCs are similarly well suited for these external and non-invasive modifications.

arXiv comment10 pages, 7 figures

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