Exciton-polaritons in multilayer WSe 2 in a planar microcavity
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Abstract Due to high binding energy and oscillator strength, excitons in thin flakes of transition metal dichalcogenides constitute a perfect foundation for realizing a strongly coupled light-matter system. In this paper we investigate mono- and few-layer WSe 2 flakes encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride and incorporated into a planar dielectric cavity. We use an open cavity design which provides tunability of the cavity mode energy by as much as 150 meV. We observe a strong coupling regime between the cavity photons and the neutral excitons in direct-bandgap monolayer WSe 2 , as well as in few-layer WSe 2 flakes exhibiting indirect bandgap. We discuss the dependence of the exciton’s oscillator strength and resonance linewidth on the number of layers and predict the exciton–photon coupling strength.
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OpenAlex topics: 2D Materials and Applications · Strong Light-Matter Interactions · Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
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