Giant Enhancement of Defect-Bound Exciton Luminescence and Suppression of Band-Edge Luminescence in Monolayer WSe<sub>2</sub>-Ag Plasmonic Hybrid Structures.
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Abstract
We have investigated how the photoluminescence (PL) of WSe<sub>2</sub> is modified when coupled to Ag plasmonic structures at low temperature. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown monolayer WSe<sub>2</sub> flakes were transferred onto a Ag film and a Ag nanotriangle array that had a 1.5 nm Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> capping layer. Using low-temperature (7.5 K) micro-PL mapping, we simultaneously observed enhancement of the defect-bound exciton emission and quenching of the band edge exciton emission when the WSe<sub>2</sub> was on a plasmonic structure. The enhancement of the defect-bound exciton emission was significant with enhancement factors of up to ∼200 for WSe<sub>2</sub> on the nanotriangle array when compared to WSe<sub>2</sub> on a 1.5 nm Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> capped Si substrate with a 300 nm SiO<sub>2</sub> layer. The giant enhancement of the luminescence from the defect-bound excitons is understood in terms of the Purcell effect and increased light absorption. In contrast, the surprising result of luminescence quenching of the bright exciton state on the same plasmonic nanostructure is due to a rather unique electronic structure of WSe<sub>2</sub>: the existence of a dark state below the bright exciton state.