Observation of the polaronic character of excitons in a two-dimensional semiconducting magnet CrI₃.

ABSTRACT: Exciton dynamics can be strongly affected by lattice vibrations through electron-phonon coupling. This is rarely explored in two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors. Focusing on bilayer CrI₃, we first show the presence of strong electron-phonon coupling through temperature-dependent photoluminescence and absorption spectroscopy. We then report the observation of periodic broad modes up to the 8th order in Raman spectra, attributed to the polaronic character of excitons. We establish that this polaronic character is dominated by the coupling between the charge-transfer exciton at 1.96 eV and a longitudinal optical phonon at 120.6 cm^-1. We further show that the emergence of long-range magnetic order enhances the electron-phonon coupling strength by ~50% and that the tra

SUBMITTER: Jin W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7508859 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature