Monolayer WS<sub>2</sub> electro- and photo-luminescence enhancement by TFSI treatment
Alisson R. Cadore, Bárbara L. T. Rosa, Ioannis Paradisanos, Sandro Mignuzzi, Domenico De Fazio, Evgeny M. Alexeev, Alva Dagkli, Jakob E. Muench, George Kakavelakis, S M Shinde, Duhee Yoon, Sefaattin Tongay, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Elefterios Lidorikis, Ilya Goykhman, Giancarlo Soavi, Andrea C. Ferrari
Abstract
Abstract Layered material heterostructures (LMHs) can be used to fabricate electroluminescent devices operating in the visible spectral region. A major advantage of LMH-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) is that electroluminescence (EL) emission can be tuned across that of different exciton complexes (e.g. biexcitons, trions, quintons) by controlling the charge density. However, these devices have an EL quantum efficiency as low as ∼10 −4 %. Here, we show that the superacid bis-(triuoromethane)sulfonimide (TFSI) treatment of monolayer WS 2 -LEDs boosts EL quantum efficiency by over one order of magnitude at room temperature. Non-treated devices emit light mainly from negatively charged excitons, while the emission in treated ones predominantly involves radiative recombination of neutral excitons. This paves the way to tunable and efficient LMH-based LEDs.