Localization of laterally confined modes in a 2D semiconductor microcavity
Monolayer semiconductor embedded planar microcavities are becoming a promising light-matter interacting system to uncover a wealth of photonic, excitonic, and polaritonic physics at the two-dimensional (2D) limit. In these 2D semiconductor microcavities employing the longitudinal Fabry-Perot resonan...
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| author | Zhang, Xuewen Wu, Lishu Yang, Weihuang Feng, Shun Wang, Xu Zhang, Xingwang Shang, Jingzhi Huang, Wei Yu, Ting |
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| description | Monolayer semiconductor embedded planar microcavities are becoming a promising light-matter interacting system to uncover a wealth of photonic, excitonic, and polaritonic physics at the two-dimensional (2D) limit. In these 2D semiconductor microcavities employing the longitudinal Fabry-Perot resonance, major attention has been paid to the coupling of excitons with vertically confined cavity photons; by contrast, the lateral confinement effect on exciton-photon interactions is still elusive. Here we observe the localized distribution of laterally confined modes with discrete energies in a 2D semiconductor embedded microcavity. Monolayer tungsten disulfides with equilateral triangular geometries but varied edge lengths are selected as the active media incorporated into a dielectric planar microcavity. With the shortening of the edge length, photoluminescence mappings of active regions present spatially localized emission patterns, which are attributed to the presence of in-plane triangular waveguiding resonance caused by total internal reflection at the one-dimensional closed boundary between the monolayer semiconductor and its surrounding cavity material. Unlike the conventional quantum confinement effect of native excitons appearing at the nanometer scale, the mode emission at the active-medium center exhibits apparent size-dependent features at the micrometer scale due to the optical confinement effect correlated with its photonic nature. By reducing the area of active media, single-mode dominant emission is achieved together with its nondispersive energy and improved directionality. Our work highlights the crucial role of lateral mode control in monolayer semiconductor embedded planar microcavities and encourages the investigation of the quantum billiard problem in 2D semiconductors. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1560592023-02-28T20:02:50Z Localization of laterally confined modes in a 2D semiconductor microcavity Zhang, Xuewen Wu, Lishu Yang, Weihuang Feng, Shun Wang, Xu Zhang, Xingwang Shang, Jingzhi Huang, Wei Yu, Ting School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Science::Physics::Optics and light 2D Semiconductor Microcavity Monolayer semiconductor embedded planar microcavities are becoming a promising light-matter interacting system to uncover a wealth of photonic, excitonic, and polaritonic physics at the two-dimensional (2D) limit. In these 2D semiconductor microcavities employing the longitudinal Fabry-Perot resonance, major attention has been paid to the coupling of excitons with vertically confined cavity photons; by contrast, the lateral confinement effect on exciton-photon interactions is still elusive. Here we observe the localized distribution of laterally confined modes with discrete energies in a 2D semiconductor embedded microcavity. Monolayer tungsten disulfides with equilateral triangular geometries but varied edge lengths are selected as the active media incorporated into a dielectric planar microcavity. With the shortening of the edge length, photoluminescence mappings of active regions present spatially localized emission patterns, which are attributed to the presence of in-plane triangular waveguiding resonance caused by total internal reflection at the one-dimensional closed boundary between the monolayer semiconductor and its surrounding cavity material. Unlike the conventional quantum confinement effect of native excitons appearing at the nanometer scale, the mode emission at the active-medium center exhibits apparent size-dependent features at the micrometer scale due to the optical confinement effect correlated with its photonic nature. By reducing the area of active media, single-mode dominant emission is achieved together with its nondispersive energy and improved directionality. Our work highlights the crucial role of lateral mode control in monolayer semiconductor embedded planar microcavities and encourages the investigation of the quantum billiard problem in 2D semiconductors. National Research Foundation (NRF) Submitted/Accepted version We thank the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61904151, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi under Grant No. 2020JM-108, and the Joint Research Funds of the Department of Science & Technology of Shaanxi Province and Northwestern Polytechnical University (No. 2020GXLHZ-020), the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) under the Competitive Research Programs (NRF-CRP-21- 2018-0007), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BM2012010), Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (YX03001), Ministry of Education of China (IRT1148), Synergetic Innovation Center for Organic Electronics and Information Displays (61136003), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51173081), and Fundamental Studies of Perovskite Solar Cells (2015CB932200). X.Z. thanks the support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12174422) and Suzhou Municipal Science & Technology Bureau (Grant Nos. ZXL2022380, SJC2021005). S.F. is supported by H2020-MSCA-IF-2020 SingExTr project No. 101031596. 2022-04-04T02:56:01Z 2022-04-04T02:56:01Z 2022 Journal Article Zhang, X., Wu, L., Yang, W., Feng, S., Wang, X., Zhang, X., Shang, J., Huang, W. & Yu, T. (2022). Localization of laterally confined modes in a 2D semiconductor microcavity. ACS Nano, 16(3), 4940-4946. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c00914 1936-0851 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156059 10.1021/acsnano.2c00914 35199985 2-s2.0-85125952038 3 16 4940 4946 en NRF-CRP21-2018-0007 ACS Nano This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Nano, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c00914. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Science::Physics::Optics and light 2D Semiconductor Microcavity Zhang, Xuewen Wu, Lishu Yang, Weihuang Feng, Shun Wang, Xu Zhang, Xingwang Shang, Jingzhi Huang, Wei Yu, Ting Localization of laterally confined modes in a 2D semiconductor microcavity |
| title | Localization of laterally confined modes in a 2D semiconductor microcavity |
| title_full | Localization of laterally confined modes in a 2D semiconductor microcavity |
| title_fullStr | Localization of laterally confined modes in a 2D semiconductor microcavity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Localization of laterally confined modes in a 2D semiconductor microcavity |
| title_short | Localization of laterally confined modes in a 2D semiconductor microcavity |
| title_sort | localization of laterally confined modes in a 2d semiconductor microcavity |
| topic | Science::Physics::Optics and light 2D Semiconductor Microcavity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156059 |
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