Electrical control over the energy exchange between exciton states mediated by cavity-polaritons at room temperature is demonstrated. A field-effect device, based on a monolayer of WS2, is built on the bottom metallic mirror of a tuneable Fabry–Pérot microcavity; on the top mirror, a monolayer of MoS2 is placed leaving a controllable gap of ∼1 μm between the top and bottom semiconductors. This device is specially designed for the multiple hybridization of microcavity modes with the two exciton species supported by WS2 and MoS2, allowing for polariton-mediated exciton energy exchange. It is further shown that the tuning of the free carrier density in the WS2 film through field-effect gating leads to strong modulation of the Rabi splitting that modifies the excitonic and photonic nature of exciton-polaritons. Electrical control of polaritonic devices may lead to technological applications using switchable quantum states.
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12 August 2019
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August 13 2019
Electrically tuneable exciton energy exchange between spatially separated 2-dimensional semiconductors in a microcavity
H. A. Fernandez
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H. A. Fernandez
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter
, Exeter EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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F. Withers
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F. Withers
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter
, Exeter EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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S. Russo
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S. Russo
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter
, Exeter EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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W. L. Barnes
W. L. Barnes
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter
, Exeter EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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H. A. Fernandez
F. Withers
W. L. Barnes
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter
, Exeter EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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Appl. Phys. Lett. 115, 071103 (2019)
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Received:
May 17 2019
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July 27 2019
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H. A. Fernandez, F. Withers, S. Russo, W. L. Barnes; Electrically tuneable exciton energy exchange between spatially separated 2-dimensional semiconductors in a microcavity. Appl. Phys. Lett. 12 August 2019; 115 (7): 071103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5110492
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