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

Feng Zhang, Ning Xu, Jinlai Zhao, Yunzheng Wang, Xiantao Jiang, Ye Zhang, Weichun Huang, Lanping Hu, Yanfeng Tang, Shixiang Xu, Han Zhang
2020 Nanophotonics  
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
more » ... a platform for actively tuning the linear and nonlinear optics, and pave the way for designing SnS-based tunable and anisotropic optoelectronic devices.
doi:10.1515/nanoph-2019-0448 fatcat:icg6kymlmvhs5l7q3kt6x7474i