Two dimensional semiconductors have attracted considerable attention owing to their exceptional electronic and optical characteristics. However, their practical application has been hindered by the limited light absorption resulting from their atomically thin thickness and low quantum yield. A highly effective approach to manipulate optical properties and address these limitations is integrating subwavelength plasmonic nanostructures with these monolayers. In this study, we employed electron beam lithography and electroplating technique to fabricate a gold nanodisc (AuND) array capable of enhancing the photoluminescence (PL) of monolayer MoS2 giantly. Monolayer MoS2 placed on the top of the AuND array yields up to 150-fold PL enhancement compared to that on a gold film. We explain our experimental findings based on electromagnetic simulations.
@article{arxiv.2306.13507,
title = {An electroplating-based plasmonic platform for giant emission enhancement in monolayer semiconductors},
author = {Abhay Anand V S and Mihir Kumar Sahoo and Faiha Mujeeb and Abin Varghese and Subhabrata Dhar and Saurabh Lodha and Anshuman Kumar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.13507},
year = {2023}
}