Observation of a Burstein-Moss shift in rhenium-doped MoS2 nanoparticles.

Sun, Qi-C; Yadgarov, Lena; Rosentsveig, Rita; Seifert, Gotthard; Tenne, Reshef; Musfeldt, Janice L · ACS Nano · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We investigated the optical properties of rhenium-doped MoS2 nanoparticles and compared our findings with the pristine and bulk analogues. Our measurements reveal that confinement softens the exciton positions and reduces spin-orbit coupling, whereas doping has the opposite effect. We model the carrier-induced exciton blue shift in terms of the Burstein-Moss effect. These findings are important for understanding doping and finite length scale effects in low-dimensional nanoscale materials.

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