Spectroscopic view of ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in single- and bilayer 
transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors

Majchrzak, Paulina; Volckaert, Klara; Čabo, Antonija Grubišić; Biswas, Deepnarayan; Bianchi, Marco; Mahatha, Sanjoy K.; Dendzik, Maciej; Andreatta, Federico; Grønborg, Signe S.; Marković, Igor; Riley, Jonathon M.; Johannsen, Jens C.; Lizzit, Daniel; Bignardi, Luca; Lizzit, Silvano; Cacho, Cephise; Alexander, Oliver; Matselyukh, Dan; Wyatt, Adam S.; Chapman, Richard T.; Springate, Emma; Lauritsen, Jeppe V.; King, Phil D. C.; Sanders, Charlotte E.; Miwa, Jill A.; Hofmann, Philip; Ulstrup, Søren

doi:10.1016/j.elspec.2021.147093

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Spectroscopic view of ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in single- and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors

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Marković, Igor
Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Majchrzak, P., Volckaert, K., Čabo, A. G., Biswas, D., Bianchi, M., Mahatha, S. K., et al. (2021). Spectroscopic view of ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in single- and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 250: 147093, pp. 1-7. doi:10.1016/j.elspec.2021.147093.

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The quasiparticle spectra of atomically thin semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and their response to an ultrafast optical excitation critically depend on interactions with the underlying substrate. Here, we present a comparative time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TR-ARPES) study of the transient electronic structure and ultrafast carrier dynamics in the single- and bilayer TMDCs MoS2 and WS2 on three different substrates: Au(111), Ag(111) and graphene/SiC. The photoexcited quasiparticle bandgaps are observed to vary over the range of 1.9–2.5 eV between our systems. The transient conduction band signals decay on a sub-50 fs timescale on the metals, signifying an efficient removal of photoinduced carriers into the bulk metallic states. On graphene, we instead observe a fast timescale on the order of 170 fs, followed by a slow dynamics for the conduction band decay in MoS2. These timescales are explained by Auger recombination involving MoS2 and in-gap defect states. In bilayer TMDCs on metals we observe a complex redistribution of excited holes along the valence band that is substantially affected by interactions with the continuum of bulk metallic states. © 2021 The Author(s)