Nanophotonics (Jan 2020)

Quantum confinement-induced enhanced nonlinearity and carrier lifetime modulation in two-dimensional tin sulfide

  • Zhang Feng,
  • Xu Ning,
  • Zhao Jinlai,
  • Wang Yunzheng,
  • Jiang Xiantao,
  • Zhang Ye,
  • Huang Weichun,
  • Hu Lanping,
  • Tang Yanfeng,
  • Xu Shixiang,
  • Zhang Han

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2019-0448
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 7
pp. 1963 – 1972

Abstract

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Two-dimensional tin sulfide (SnS), as a black phosphorus-analogue binary semiconductor, has received considerable attention in photonics and optoelectronics. Herein, the third-order nonlinearity susceptibility Im χ3 is enhanced from −(6.88 ± 0.10) × 10−14 esu to −(15.90 ± 0.27) × 10−14 esu by the size-related quantum confinement in layered SnS nanosheets. Due to the energy level alignment, a phonon-bottleneck effect is observed, which leads to a prolonged carrier lifetime. These results provide a platform for actively tuning the linear and nonlinear optics, and pave the way for designing SnS-based tunable and anisotropic optoelectronic devices.

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