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Current Applied Physics, Vol.17, No.2, 321-325, 2017
The electrical and valley properties of monolayer MoSe2
We studied the electrical, optical and valley properties of monolayer MoSe2. The measured PL circular polarization of monolayer MoSe2 was negligibly small, compared with the more-than 60% circular polarization of monolayer MoSe2. Doping-dependent PL measurement and Kelvin probe microscopy show that the small circular polarization because of its longer exciton lifetime in monolayer MoSe2. Furthermore, it is found that the longer exciton lifetime is due to the nearly intrinsic electrical property of monolayer MoSe2, where non-radiative trion decay, which is the dominant exciton decay mechanism in n-type monolayer MoSe2, is minimized due to the low density of excess electrons (holes). We believe that S and Se vacancies play an important role in determining the Fermi level position for these materials. Our experimental results show that monolayer MoSe2 can be a better valleytronics material than monolayer MoSe2 in spite of its small circular polarization. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.