Luminescent Emission of Excited Rydberg Excitons from Monolayer WSe2

Nano Lett. 2019 Apr 10;19(4):2464-2471. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00029. Epub 2019 Mar 25.

Abstract

We report the experimental observation of radiative recombination from Rydberg excitons in a two-dimensional semiconductor, monolayer WSe2, encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. Excitonic emission up to the 4 s excited state is directly observed in photoluminescence spectroscopy in an out-of-plane magnetic field up to 31 T. We confirm the progressively larger exciton size for higher energy excited states through diamagnetic shift measurements. This also enables us to estimate the 1 s exciton binding energy to be about 170 meV, which is significantly smaller than most previous reports. The Zeeman shift of the 1 s to 3 s states, from both luminescence and absorption measurements, exhibits a monotonic increase of the g-factor, reflecting nontrivial magnetic-dipole-moment differences between ground and excited exciton states. This systematic evolution of magnetic dipole moments is theoretically explained from the spreading of the Rydberg states in momentum space.

Keywords: Rydberg exciton; Zeeman shift; diamagnetic shift; magnetic dipole moment; tungsten diselenide.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.