Thickness-Dependent Differential Reflectance Spectra of Monolayer and Few-Layer MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2

Yue Niu; Sergio Gonzalez-Abad; Riccardo Frisenda; Philipp Marauhn; Matthias Drüppel; Patricia Gant; Robert Schmidt; Najme S. Taghavi; David Barcons; Aday J. Molina-Mendoza; Steffen Michaelis De Vasconcellos; Rudolf Bratschitsch; David Perez De Lara; Michael Rohlfing; Andres Castellanos-Gomez

doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0242.v1

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Niu, Y.; Gonzalez-Abad, S.; Frisenda, R.; Marauhn, P.; Drüppel, M.; Gant, P.; Schmidt, R.; Taghavi, N.S.; Barcons, D.; Molina-Mendoza, A.J.; de Vasconcellos, S.M.; Bratschitsch, R.; Perez De Lara, D.; Rohlfing, M.; Castellanos-Gomez, A. Thickness-Dependent Differential Reflectance Spectra of Monolayer and Few-Layer MoS₂, MoSe₂, WS₂ and WSe₂. Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 725. Niu, Y.; Gonzalez-Abad, S.; Frisenda, R.; Marauhn, P.; Drüppel, M.; Gant, P.; Schmidt, R.; Taghavi, N.S.; Barcons, D.; Molina-Mendoza, A.J.; de Vasconcellos, S.M.; Bratschitsch, R.; Perez De Lara, D.; Rohlfing, M.; Castellanos-Gomez, A. Thickness-Dependent Differential Reflectance Spectra of Monolayer and Few-Layer MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2. Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 725.

Abstract

The research field of two dimensional (2D) materials strongly relies on optical microscopy characterization tools to identify atomically thin materials and to determine their number of layers. Moreover, optical microscopy-based techniques also opened the door to study the optical properties of these nanomaterials. We present a comprehensive study of the differential reflectance spectra of 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), MoS₂, MoSe₂, WS₂ and WSe₂, with thickness ranging from one layer up to six layers. We analyze the thickness-dependent energy of the different excitonic features, indicating the change in the band structure of the different TMDC materials with the number of layers. Our work provides a route to employ differential reflectance spectroscopy for determining the number of layers of MoS₂, MoSe₂, WS₂ and WSe₂.

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Thickness-Dependent Differential Reflectance Spectra of Monolayer and Few-Layer MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2

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Thickness-Dependent Differential Reflectance Spectra of Monolayer and Few-Layer MoS₂, MoSe₂, WS₂ and WSe₂