Browsing by Author "Stier, A.V."

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    Magnetooptics of Exciton Rydberg States in a Monolayer Semiconductor
    (American Physical Society, 2018) Stier, A.V.; Wilson, N.P.; Velizhanin, K.A.; Kono, J.; Xu, X.; Crooker, S.A.; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Materials Science and Nanoengineering; Physics and Astronomy
    We report 65 T magnetoabsorption spectroscopy of exciton Rydberg states in the archetypal monolayer semiconductor WSe2. The strongly field-dependent and distinct energy shifts of the 2s, 3s, and 4s excited neutral excitons permits their unambiguous identification and allows for quantitative comparison with leading theoretical models. Both the sizes (via low-field diamagnetic shifts) and the energies of the ns exciton states agree remarkably well with detailed numerical simulations using the nonhydrogenic screened Keldysh potential for 2D semiconductors. Moreover, at the highest magnetic fields, the nearly linear diamagnetic shifts of the weakly bound 3s and 4s excitons provide a direct experimental measure of the exciton’s reduced mass mr=0.20±0.01m0.
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    Scaling law for excitons in 2D perovskite quantum wells
    (Springer Nature, 2018) Blancon, J.-C.; Stier, A.V.; Tsai, H.; Nie, W.; Stoumpos, C.C.; Traoré, B.; Pedesseau, L.; Kepenekian, M.; Katsutani, F.; Noe, G.T.; Kono, J.; Tretiak, S.; Crooker, S.A.; Katan, C.; Kanatzidis, M.G.; Crochet, J.J.; Even, J.; Mohite, A.D.; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Materials Science and Nanoengineering; Physics and Astronomy
    Ruddlesden-Popper halide perovskites are 2D solution-processed quantum wells with a general formula A2A'n-1M n X3n+1, where optoelectronic properties can be tuned by varying the perovskite layer thickness (n-value), and have recently emerged as efficient semiconductors with technologically relevant stability. However, fundamental questions concerning the nature of optical resonances (excitons or free carriers) and the exciton reduced mass, and their scaling with quantum well thickness, which are critical for designing efficient optoelectronic devices, remain unresolved. Here, using optical spectroscopy and 60-Tesla magneto-absorption supported by modeling, we unambiguously demonstrate that the optical resonances arise from tightly bound excitons with both exciton reduced masses and binding energies decreasing, respectively, from 0.221 m0 to 0.186 m0 and from 470 meV to 125 meV with increasing thickness from n equals 1 to 5. Based on this study we propose a general scaling law to determine the binding energy of excitons in perovskite quantum wells of any layer thickness.