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Plasmons in the Van Der Waals Charge-Density-Wave Material 2H-Tase2 ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20720-0 OPEN Plasmons in the van der Waals charge-density- wave material 2H-TaSe2 Chaoyu Song 1,2, Xiang Yuan 1,3, Ce Huang1, Shenyang Huang1,2, Qiaoxia Xing1,2, Chong Wang1,2, Cheng Zhang 1,4, Yuangang Xie1,2, Yuchen Lei1,2, Fanjie Wang1,2, Lei Mu1,2, Jiasheng Zhang1,2, ✉ Faxian Xiu 1,4,5 & Hugen Yan 1,2 Plasmons in two-dimensional (2D) materials beyond graphene have recently gained much 1234567890():,; attention. However, the experimental investigation is limited due to the lack of suitable materials. Here, we experimentally demonstrate localized plasmons in a correlated 2D charge-density-wave (CDW) material: 2H-TaSe2. The plasmon resonance can cover a broad spectral range from the terahertz (40 μm) to the telecom (1.55 μm) region, which is further tunable by changing thickness and dielectric environments. The plasmon dispersion flattens at large wave vectors, resulted from the universal screening effect of interband transitions. More interestingly, anomalous temperature dependence of plasmon resonances associated with CDW excitations is observed. In the CDW phase, the plasmon peak close to the CDW excitation frequency becomes wider and asymmetric, mimicking two coupled oscillators. Our study not only reveals the universal role of the intrinsic screening on 2D plasmons, but also opens an avenue for tunable plasmons in 2D correlated materials. 1 State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, 200433 Shanghai, China. 2 Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Fudan University, 200433 Shanghai, China. 3 State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, 200062 Shanghai, China. 4 Institute for Nanoelectronic Devices and Quantum Computing, Fudan University, 200433 Shanghai, China. 5 Shanghai ✉ Research Center for Quantum Sciences, 201315 Shanghai, China. email: [email protected] NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | (2021) 12:386 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20720-0 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications 1 ARTICLE NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20720-0 ith strong tunability and extraordinary light field Fig. 1c. When the polarization of incident light is along the ribbon confinement, plasmons in 2D materials show great direction, the extinction spectrum is dominated by free carrier W fi 1–11 −1 promise in recon gurable photonics . In the long response (Drude scattering rate 2000 cm ), as shown in Fig. 1d = = wavelength limit,p theffiffiffi plasmon frequency of 2D free electron gas is (sample T1, thickness d 40 nm, ribbon width W 500 nm), proportional to q4,12, with q as the wave vector. Such dispersion whereas plasmon resonances are observed with perpendicular may give us an illusion that the plasmon frequency can go as high polarization. The optical conductivity of plasmons is fitted by a as one wishes. However, recent theoretical studies suggest that the Lorentz oscillator model (Eqs. (4) and (5) in the “Methods” plasmon dispersion in real 2D materials flattens universally section). due to the intrinsic dielectric screening from interband transi- Figure 2a shows the extinction spectra of TaSe2 plasmons for tions13–15, which is inevitable for almost every crystal. The flat- ribbon arrays with different widths. The first-order and the tened dispersion renders slow plasmon group velocity and second-order plasmon peaks are simultaneously observed for facilitates plasmon localization15. Though with importance, the plasmonic devices with ribbon width larger than 500 nm. The experimental verification of such flattened dispersion remains resonance frequency of the first-order plasmon increases elusive up to date. significantly from 1035 to 6133 cm−1 as the ribbon width μ 2H-TaSe2 belongs to a transition metal dichalcogenide decreases from 2 m to 60 nm, which corresponds to the light (TMDC), which attracts much attention due to the appearance of wavelength λ changes from 9.6 to 1.6 μm. Moreover, the plasmon 16 CDW orders . It exhibits a normal-incommensurate charge- resonance of TaSe2 can cover terahertz and far-infrared (far-IR) = density-wave (CDW) phase transition at about TC1 122 K, regions as well, with the resonance light wavelength readily followed by an incommensurate–commensurate CDW phase beyond 40 μm (see Supplementary Fig. 1). The relatively broad = 16,17 transition at TC2 90 K . Previously, the bulk plasmon of spectral range of TaSe2 plasmons is originated from its high metallic TMDCs was studied by electron energy-loss spectroscopy carrier density and the absence of Landau damping channels (EELS) and the anomalous negative plasmon dispersion was within this spectral range at room temperature. The effective 18,19 fi observed . The interactions between CDW and plasmons were sheet carrier density of the TaSe2 lm with thickness of 40 nm is proposed as the physics origin of the negative dispersion19–21.In estimated to be 3.8 × 1017 cm−2 at room temperature (see the contrast, some later theoretical calculations and doping experi- Hall resistance measurement in Supplementary note 11), much ments revealed that the narrow d bands near the Fermi level may larger than that of graphene (2.5 × 1013 cm−2 for highly doped account for the negative dispersion22–24. All these studies based graphene5) and comparable to that of ultrathin gold films (1.8 × on EELS are for bulk plasmons, while the coupling between 2D 1016 cm−2 for d = 3nm25). plasmons and CDW excitations in TaSe2 thin films is still unclear. In the long-wavelength limit, the plasmon dispersion of a 2D Here, we report the experimental studies of localized 2D free electron system is given by4,12 sffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi plasmons in 2H-TaSe2 van der Waals (vdW) thin films. We fi e2 n patterned the vdW thin lms of 2H-TaSe2 into ribbon arrays and ω ð Þ¼ s ð1Þ p q ε ε q measured the plasmon resonances by Fourier-transform infrared 2 0 e m spectroscopy (FTIR). The plasmonic excitations correspond to ε ε the collective oscillations of carriers with the moving direction where 0 is the vacuum permittivity, e is the relative dielectric perpendicular to the ribbon1, analogous to localized plasmons in constant of the surrounding environment, ns is the sheet carrier traditional metallic nanostructures. Of course, propagating sur- density, and m is the effective mass of carriers. The wave vector q fi π= 6 face plasmons can be expected to show up in TaSe2 thin lms is W for the ribbon with widthpWffiffiffi . As shown in Fig. 2b, the through momentum compensation techniques, such as an atomic plasmon dispersion follows the q dependence at small wave force microscopy (AFM) tip in near field imaging experiments2,3. vectors, whereas it becomes almost dispersionless when the wave fi 7 −1 15 We nd that the resonance frequency of the plasmon in TaSe2 vector is larger than 3 × 10 m . As suggested by Jornada et al. , thin films covers a broad spectra range and extends to the telecom the deviation from the ideal 2D plasmon dispersion is originated region, which is unattainable for graphene plasmons6. In addi- from the screening effect of interband transitions, and the fl tion, TaSe2 plasmons sensitively depend on the layer thickness attening of plasmon dispersion at large q appears to be universal and dielectric environments. Particularly, we reveal that the for 2D metals. For metallic TMDCs, there are multiple interband plasmon dispersion becomes flat at large wave vectors due to the transitions between bands near the Fermi level, namely, the screening of interband transitions, fully consistent with theore- occupied (unoccupied) bands just below (above) the Femi level, tical predictions15. More interestingly, we find that the CDW whose onset energy is around 1–2 eV according to optical – phase has profound influence on the plasmon resonance. In our measurements26 28 and first-principles calculations14,15,22,23. The fi study, we observe the coupling effects between TaSe2 plasmons plasmon dispersion can be modi ed by introducing screening and CDW excitations, which causes non-monotonic change of effects of interband transitions into the effective dielectric constant ε 15 29 the peak height and linewidth when the temperature decreases. e , which becomes q-dependent in Keldysh model . In the long- For comparison, thin films of 2H-NbSe were fabricated into wavelength limit, the effective dielectric constant is approximately 2 þε ε ¼ 1 s þ ρ ε ribbon arrays as well. On the contrary to TaSe2, the plasmon expressed as e 2 0q, where s is the dielectric constant of ρ fi peak of NbSe2 continually becomes sharper with decreasing the substrate, 0 is the screening length of the 2D lm. For thin temperature. fi fi ρ ε= lms with nite thickness d, the screening length is 0 d 2, and ε is the intrinsic dielectric constant due to interband transitions29. By incorporating the q-dependent dielectric constant Results ε (q) into Eq. (1), the plasmon dispersion of 2D materials with The 2D plasmon dispersion of 2H-TaSe e 2. 2H-TaSe2 exhibits interband screening reads:15 fi hexagonal structures as illustrated in Fig. 1a. Thin lms of TaSe2 sffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi 2 were mechanically exfoliated from bulk crystals onto diamond nse q fi ω ðqÞ¼ ð2Þ substrates, as displayed in Fig. 1b. In one uniform TaSe2 lm, we p ε ð þ ε Þ= þ ρ 2 0m 1 s 2 q fabricated more than 10 plasmonic arrays with various ribbon 0 widths. The extinction spectra, which are directly determined by The plasmon dispersion as well as the saturation behavior at the optical conductivity, were measured by FTIR as illustrated in large wave vectors are well fitted by Eq. (2), as displayed in 2 NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | (2021) 12:386 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20720-0 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20720-0 ARTICLE Fig.
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