Electron recoil effect in electrically tunable MoSe2 monolayers
Abstract
Radiative recombination of excitons dressed by the interactions with free charge carriers often occurs under simultaneous excitation of either electrons or holes to unbound states. This phenomenon, known as the electron recoil effect, manifests itself in pronounced, asymmetric spectral lineshapes of the resulting emission. We study the electron recoil effect experimentally in electrically-tunable monolayer semiconductors and derive it theoretically using both trion and Fermi-polaron pictures. Time-resolved analysis of the recoil lineshapes is employed to access transient, non-equilibrium states of the exciton-carrier complexes. We demonstrate cooling of the initially overheated populations on the picosecond timescales and reveal the impact of lattice temperature and free carrier density. Both thermally activated phonons and the presence of free charges are shown to accelerate equilibration. Finally, we find strong correlations between relaxation times from recoil analysis and luminescence rise times, providing a consistent interpretation for the initial dynamics of trion/Fermi-polaron states.
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@article{arxiv.2111.07676,
title = {Electron recoil effect in electrically tunable MoSe2 monolayers},
author = {Jonas Zipfel and Koloman Wagner and Marina A. Semina and Jonas D. Ziegler and Takashi Taniguchi and Kenji Watanabe and Mikhail M. Glazov and Alexey Chernikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.07676},
year = {2022}
}