Betraying excitonic processes and chemical bonding in MoS2 by x-ray-absorption near-edge structure and resonant-Auger electron emission

Published

March 10, 2021

Author(s)

Joseph Woicik, Nicholas F. Quackenbush, Conan Weiland, Eric L. Shirley, Abdul K. Rumaiz, Michael T. Brumbach, James M. Ablett

Abstract

Electron core-hole processes at absorption edges sport several signatures, primarily in the form of bound states and/or excitonic enhancement. Through analysis of the resonant-Raman Auger effect for the 2-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenide MoS2, we demonstrate that these effects can have significant manifestations at the S 1s x-ray edge. We characterize two asymmetric excitonically enhanced edges: one at the fundamental band edge and one several electron volts above it following a second band gap that lies entirely within the unoccupied states, with the latter revealing an anomalous post-collision interaction effect. Our interpretation is supported by comparison of the absorption spectra with electronic structure calculations obtained using an ab initio solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation, which accurately accounts for the electron-core-hole interaction.

Citation

Physical Review B

Volume

98

Issue

11

Pub Type

Journals

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https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.115149

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Keywords

MOS2, Sulfur 1s, exciton

Citation

Woicik, J. , Quackenbush, N. , Weiland, C. , , E. , Rumaiz, A. , Brumbach, M. and Ablett, J. (2021), Betraying excitonic processes and chemical bonding in MoS2 by x-ray-absorption near-edge structure and resonant-Auger electron emission, Physical Review B, [online], https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.115149, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=926252 (Accessed November 21, 2024)