Abstract
We present a density functional theory parametrized hybrid tight-binding model for electronic properties of atomically thin films of transition-metal dichalcogenides, , Se). We use this model to analyze intersubband transitions in - and -doped films and predict the line shapes of the intersubband excitations, determined by the subband-dependent two-dimensional electron and hole masses, as well as excitation lifetimes due to emission and absorption of optical phonons. We find that the intersubband spectra of atomically thin films of the 2H- family with thicknesses of to 7 layers densely cover the infrared spectral range of wavelengths between 2 and . The detailed analysis presented in this paper shows that for thin -doped films, the electronic dispersion and spin-valley degeneracy of the lowest-energy subbands oscillate between odd and even number of layers, which may also offer interesting opportunities for quantum Hall effect studies in these systems.
10 More- Received 25 March 2018
- Revised 9 June 2018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.035411
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