Visualizing Hot-Carrier Expansion and Cascaded Transport in WS2 by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Microscopy

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The competition between different spatiotemporal carrier relaxation determines the carrier harvesting in optoelectronic semiconductors, which can be greatly optimized by utilizing the ultrafast spatial expansion of highly energetic carriers before their energy dissipation via carrier–phonon interactions. Here, the excited-state dynamics in layered tungsten disulfide (WS2) are primarily imaged in the temporal, spatial, and spectral domains by transient absorption microscopy. Ultrafast hot carrier expansion is captured in the first 1.4 ps immediately after photoexcitation, with a mean diffusivity up to 980 cm2 s−1. This carrier diffusivity then rapidly weakens, reaching a conventional linear spread of 10.5 cm2 s−1 after 2 ps after the hot carriers cool down to the band edge and form bound excitons. The novel carrier diffusion can be well characterized by a cascaded transport model including 3D thermal transport and thermo-optical conversion, in which the carrier temperature gradient and lattice thermal transport govern the initial hot carrier expansion and long-term exciton diffusion rates, respectively. The ultrafast hot carrier expansion breaks the limit of slow exciton diffusion in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides, providing potential guidance for high-performance applications and thermal management of optoelectronic technology.

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Liu, Q., Wei, K., Tang, Y., Xu, Z., Cheng, X., & Jiang, T. (2022). Visualizing Hot-Carrier Expansion and Cascaded Transport in WS2 by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Microscopy. Advanced Science, 9(10). https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202105746

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