Tunable near-infrared light emission from layered TiS<sub>3</sub> nanoribbons

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2024, Vol. 19

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Tunable near-infrared light emission from layered TiS₃ nanoribbons

Junrong Zhang^1,², Cheng Chen^1,², Yanming Wang^1,², Yang Lu^1,², Honghong Li³, Xingang Hou², Yaning Liang^2,⁴, Long Fang^2,⁵, Du Xiang³(

), Kai Zhang^1,²(

), Junyong Wang^1,²(

)

¹. School of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
². CAS Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Materials and Devices & Key Laboratory of Nanodevices and Applications, i-Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China
³. Frontier Institute of Chip and System, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
⁴. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
⁵. College of Energy & Power Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China

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Abstract

The low-dimensional light source shows promise in photonic integrated circuits. Stable layered van der Waals material that exhibits luminescence in the near-infrared optical communication waveband is an essential component in on-chip light sources. Herein, the tunable near-infrared photoluminescence (PL) of the air-stable layered titanium trisulfide (TiS₃) is reported. Compared with iodine particles as a transport agent, TiS₃ grown by chemical vapor transport using sulfur powder as a transport agent has fewer sulfur vacancies, which increases the luminescence intensity by an order of magnitude. The PL emission wavelength can be regulated in the near-infrared regime by thickness control. In addition, we observed an interesting anisotropic strain response of PL in layered TiS₃ nanoribbon: a blue shift of PL was achieved when the uniaxial tensile strain was applied along the b-axis, while a negligible shift was observed when the strain was applied along the a-axis. Our work reveals the tunable near-infrared luminescent properties of TiS₃ nanoribbons, suggesting their potential applications as near-infrared light sources in photonic integrated circuits.

Keywords titanium trisulfide near-infrared luminescence S-vacancy tunability strain engineering

Corresponding Author(s): Du Xiang,Kai Zhang,Junyong Wang

Issue Date: 05 February 2024

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Junrong Zhang,Cheng Chen,Yanming Wang, et al. Tunable near-infrared light emission from layered TiS₃ nanoribbons[J]. Front. Phys. , 2024, 19(4): 43203.

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Fig.1 Optical properties of quasi-1D TiS₃ nanoribbons. (a) Atomic structure model of TiS₃. (b) XRD patterns of the TiS₃ nanoribbons. (c) Polarized Raman intensity mapping of TiS₃ nanoribbon as a function of Raman shift and incident angle. Here the polarization direction of excitation (E) was parallel to the direction of detection (D). (d) UV-vis absorption spectrum of TiS₃ nanoribbon at room temperature, the inset is Tacu plot of TiS₃ nanoribbon extracted from the absorption spectrum. (e) Photoluminescence spectra of TiS₃ nanoribbon under various excitation powers at 300 K. (f) Polar plot of the polarized photoluminescence, cps: counts per second.

Fig.2 Tune the PL emission intensity of TiS₃ nanoribbons by defect engineering. (a) The SEM image of TiS_3?x. (b) The SEM image of TiS₃. (c, d) High-resolution XPS spectra of S and Ti core level spectra of TiS_3?x and TiS₃, respectively. (e, f) PL spectra and intensity of TiS_3?x and TiS₃.

Fig.3 PL emissions of TiS₃ nanoribbons by thickness regulation. (a) Thickness dependence of the PL spectra of TiS₃ nanoribbons. (b) Thickness dependence of TiS₃ band gap. (c) PL spectra of TiS₃ nanoribbons with a graded thickness. (d) The height profile of the thickness of the flake in (c) and the inset illustration is the AFM image.

Fig.4 Anisotropic response of PL spectra of TiS₃ nanoribbons under tensile strain. (a) Schematic diagram of the strain experiment and home-built setup. Strains are applied along the a-axis (perpendicular to the chain direction, orange arrow) and the b-axis (along the chain direction, blue arrow), respectively. (b) Raman and PL spectra of TiS₃ nanoribbon with the strain applied along the b-axis. (c) Raman and PL spectra of TiS₃ nanoribbon with the strain applied along the a-axis. (d) Schematic diagram of the existence of the wrinkle along the b-axis direction in TiS₃ nanoribbon. (e) Raman and PL spectra of the wrinkled TiS₃ nanoribbon.

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