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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 6: 2D Materials 1 (joint session HL/CPP/DS)

HL 6.10: Vortrag

Montag, 5. September 2022, 12:30–12:45, H36

Strong exciton-plasmon coupling in hybrids of 2D semiconductors and metal supercrystals — •Lara Greten, Robert Salzwedel, Malte Selig, and Andreas Knorr — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) are direct semiconductors that exhibit tightly bound excitons with uniquely large optical amplitudes. Thus, they are promising for optoelectronic applications and a prime example to investigate excitonic effects.

Complementary, plasmonic supercrystals, that are arrays of metal nanoparticles, support collective plasmon modes. They facilitate an impressive amplification of the electric near-field which allows to tailor electric fields on the nano-scale.

In the presented work, we theoretically consider exciton-plasmon coupling in a hybrid structure of a TMDC layer interacting with a single metal nano-particle or a two-dimensional supercrystal. For this purpose, we develop a Maxwell-Bloch theory where the excitons are described within the Heisenberg equation of motion framework and the metal nano-particles are treated as coupled dipoles in Mie theory.

Our studies reveal new "plexcitonic" eigenstates of the hybrid system. Furthermore, we are able to compute the scattered light in the near- and far-field explicitly and identify signatures of strong exciton-plasmon coupling featuring a Rabi splitting of tens of meV.