Giant room-temperature nonlinearities in a monolayer Janus topological semiconductor

Shi, Jiaojian; Xu, Haowei; Heide, Christian; HuangFu, Changan; Xia, Chenyi; de Quesada, Felipe; Shen, Hongzhi; Zhang, Tianyi; Yu, Leo; Johnson, Amalya; Liu, Fang; Shi, Enzheng; Jiao, Liying; Heinz, Tony; Ghimire, Shambhu; Li, Ju; Kong, Jing; Guo, Yunfan; Lindenberg, Aaron M.

doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40373-z

Giant room-temperature nonlinearities in a monolayer Janus topological semiconductor

Journal Article · Wed Aug 16 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40373-z· OSTI ID:2212837

; ; ; HuangFu, Changan; Xia, Chenyi; ; Shen, Hongzhi; ; Yu, Leo; ; ; ; ; Heinz, Tony; ; ; ; Guo, Yunfan;

Abstract

Nonlinear optical materials possess wide applications, ranging from terahertz and mid-infrared detection to energy harvesting. Recently, the correlations between nonlinear optical responses and certain topological properties, such as the Berry curvature and the quantum metric tensor, have attracted considerable interest. Here, we report giant room-temperature nonlinearities in non-centrosymmetric two-dimensional topological materials—the Janus transition metal dichalcogenides in the 1 T’ phase, synthesized by an advanced atomic-layer substitution method. High harmonic generation, terahertz emission spectroscopy, and second harmonic generation measurements consistently show orders-of-the-magnitude enhancement in terahertz-frequency nonlinearities in 1 T’ MoSSe (e.g., > 50 times higher than 2 H MoS ₂ for 18 ^th order harmonic generation; > 20 times higher than 2 H MoS ₂ for terahertz emission). We link this giant nonlinear optical response to topological band mixing and strong inversion symmetry breaking due to the Janus structure. Our work defines general protocols for designing materials with large nonlinearities and heralds the applications of topological materials in optoelectronics down to the monolayer limit.

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Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; SC0020042

OSTI ID:: 2212837

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2000756

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 14; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United Kingdom

Language:: English

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