Band Nesting in Two-Dimensional Crystals: An Exceptionally Sensitive Probe of Strain.

ABSTRACT: Band nesting occurs when conduction and valence bands are approximately equispaced over regions in the Brillouin zone. In two-dimensional materials, band nesting results in singularities of the joint density of states and thus in a strongly enhanced optical response at resonant frequencies. We exploit the high sensitivity of such resonances to small changes in the band structure to sensitively probe strain in semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We measure and calculate the polarization-resolved optical second harmonic generation (SHG) at the band nesting energies and present the first measurements of the energy-dependent nonlinear photoelastic effect in atomically thin TMDs (MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2) combined with a theoretical analysis of the underlying processes. Ex

SUBMITTER: Mennel L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7291349 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature