posted on 2024-10-22, 21:40authored bySarthak Das, Ding Huang, Ivan A. Verzhbitskiy, Zi-En Ooi, Chit Siong Lau, Rainer Lee, Calvin Pei Yu Wong, Kuan Eng Johnson Goh
Excitons are key to the optoelectronic applications of
van der
Waals semiconductors, with the potential for versatile on-demand tuning
of properties. Yet, their electrical manipulation remains challenging
due to inherent charge neutrality and the additional loss channels
induced by electrical doping. We demonstrate the dynamic electrical
control of valley polarization in charged excitonic states of monolayer
tungsten disulfide, achieving up to a 6-fold increase in the degree
of circular polarization under off-resonant excitation. In contrast
to the weak direct tuning of excitons typically observed using electrical
gating, the charged exciton photoluminescence remains stable, even
with increased scattering from electron doping. By exciting at the
exciton resonances, we observed the reproducible nonmonotonic switching
of the charged state population as the electron doping is varied under
gate bias, indicating a resonant interplay between neutral and charged
exciton states.