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Suppressed Out-of-Plane Polarizability of Free Excitons in Monolayer WSe2.

Ivan A VerzhbitskiyDaniele VellaKenji WatanabeTakashi TaniguchiGoki Eda
Published in: ACS nano (2019)
Monolayer semiconductors are atomically thin quantum wells with strong confinement of electrons in a two-dimensional (2D) plane. Here, we experimentally study the out-of-plane polarizability of excitons in hBN-encapsulated monolayer WSe2 in strong electric fields of up to 1.6 V/nm (16 MV/cm). We monitor free exciton photoluminescence peaks with increasing electric fields at a constant carrier density, carefully compensating for unintentional photodoping in our double-gated device at 4 K. We show that the Stark shift is smaller than 0.4 meV despite the large electric fields applied, yielding an upper limit of polarizability α z to be ∼10-11 Dm/V. Such a small polarizability, which is nearly two orders of magnitude smaller than the previously reported value for MoS2, indicates strong atomic confinement of electrons in this 2D system and highlights the unusual robustness of free excitons against surface potential fluctuations.
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