Reduced Dielectric Screening and Enhanced Energy Transfer in Single- and Few-Layer MoS2

Prins, Ferry; Goodman, Aaron J.; Tisdale, William A.

doi:10.1021/nl5019386

Title: Reduced Dielectric Screening and Enhanced Energy Transfer in Single- and Few-Layer MoS₂

Journal Article · Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/nl5019386· OSTI ID:1387548

Prins, Ferry ^[1]; Goodman, Aaron J. ^[1]; Tisdale, William A. ^[1]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

We report here highly efficient nonradiative energy transfer from cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots to monolayer and few-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂). The quenching of the donor quantum dot photoluminescence increases as the MoS₂ flake thickness decreases with the highest efficiency (>95%) observed for monolayer MoS₂. This counterintuitive result arises from reduced dielectric screening in thin layer semiconductors having unusually large permittivity and a strong in-plane transition dipole moment, as found in MoS₂. Excitonic energy transfer between a zero-dimensional emitter and a two-dimensional absorber is fundamentally interesting and enables a wide range of applications including broadband optical down-conversion, optical detection, photovoltaic sensitization, and color shifting in light-emitting devices.

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Research Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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OSTI ID:: 1387548

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Vol. 14, Issue 11; ISSN 1530-6984

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