Light emission from the layered metal 2H-TaSe$_2$ and its potential applications

Kausik Majumdar; Medha Dandu; Mehak Mahajan; Naresh Sharma; Sangeeth Kallatt; Shilpi Gupta

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Light emission from the layered metal 2H-TaSe$_2$ and its potential applications

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Pith's one-line read The metallic layered compound 2H-TaSe2 emits strong photoluminescence, transfers energy to MoS2, and drives a vertical photodetector with above 10 A/W responsivity at 0.1 MHz.

desk verdict Solid, well-controlled observation of PL from metallic 2H-TaSe2, but the hot-electron-injector story built on sub-IRF lifetimes does not hold up. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.06913 v1 pith:E6PCVGOL submitted 2019-08-19 cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Mehak Mahajan , Sangeeth Kallatt , Medha Dandu , Naresh Sharma , Shilpi Gupta , Kausik Majumdar This is my paper · ORCID

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keywords 2H-TaSe2transitionmetaldichalcogenidechargedensitywavephotoluminescencenon-radiativeresonantenergytransferhot-electroninjectionverticalheterostructurephotodetectorMoS2

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The reading

The paper argues that 2H-TaSe2, a layered metal with charge-density-wave order, is also a strong light absorber and emitter, and that this combination makes it useful in optoelectronic devices where metals normally only serve as contacts. It reports a seven-fold enhancement of multilayer MoS2 photoluminescence by non-radiative resonant energy transfer from TaSe2, and hot-electron injection from TaSe2 that produces photocurrent even when the laser spot sits several micrometers from the junction. On top of this, a vertical TaSe2/MoS2/graphene photodetector is demonstrated with responsivity above 10 $AW^{{-1}}$ at 0.1 MHz at zero external bias. A sympathetic reader would care because, if true, a single metallic layered material could absorb light, emit light, donate energy, and inject hot carriers, removing the usual separation between passive metal electrodes and active semiconductor layers in two-dimensional optoelectronics.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is the specific band structure of 2H-TaSe2: a narrow charge-density-wave-reconstructed band around the Fermi energy, with a large energy separation to the next bands, gives the material both metallic conductivity and optical inter-band transitions; the parallel-band region between $\Gamma$ and K provides strong absorption, and phonon-assisted relaxation feeds the broad emission. The second mechanism is non-radiative resonant energy transfer: the quasi-two-dimensional in-plane transition dipoles of TaSe2 and MoS2 allow momentum-matched dipole-dipole coupling, described by a rate-equation model whose central parameter is the transfer rate $\Gamma_{ET}$ from TaSe2 to MoS2. The third mechanism is the vertical built-in field in the TaSe2/MoS2/graphene stack, which separates photo-generated carriers and, together with hole trapping in MoS2 gap states, provides photoconductive gain.

What would settle it

Measure the photoluminescence decay of 2H-TaSe2 with a setup whose time resolution is better than 1 picosecond, for example a streak camera or femtosecond upconversion. If the decay time comes out below about 1 ps, the long-lifetime hot-carrier story collapses; a second check is to map photocurrent versus laser-spot-to-contact distance on bare TaSe2 and see whether the decay length matches a diffusion length computed from the true lifetime.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On the paper's own terms, the discovery is that the metallic character of 2H-TaSe2 does not prevent strong inter-band optical transitions. Its band structure has a narrow band at the Fermi energy and well-separated bands above and below; with 2.33 eV excitation, a direct transition at the K point and a parallel-band transition between $\Gamma$ and K both contribute to absorption, and photoexcited carriers relax indirectly with phonon assistance, producing a broad photoluminescence peak near 2.0-2.1 eV rather than the weak emission expected of a conventional metal. The same photoexcited carriers are claimed to survive for picoseconds, long enough to transfer energy by dipole-dipole coupling to MoS2 excitons or to be collected as hot electrons over micrometer distances. The paper then demonstrates that a vertical TaSe2/MoS2/graphene stack turns these effects into a zero-bias photodetector that simultaneously has internal gain and a response up to 0.1 MHz.

Load-bearing premise

The paper's account of long-lived hot carriers depends on measured light-decay times of 2.5 to 6.8 picoseconds, obtained by removing the instrument's own ~95 picosecond response from data that decay almost as fast as the instrument; the paper itself notes that this removal is only trustworthy down to about 9.5 picoseconds, so the real decay could be much faster.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

2H-TaSe2 can be used as both electrical contact and light-absorbing layer, so a single material replaces the separate metal electrode and absorber in thin-film optoelectronics.
Because its broad emission overlaps the A-exciton absorption of MoS2, TaSe2 can sensitize multilayer MoS2 by non-radiative energy transfer, brightening an otherwise dark indirect-gap emitter.
Hot-electron injection from TaSe2 makes it a candidate source for carrier injection into TMDC channels without a conventional metal's short-lived hot carriers.
The vertical TaSe2/MoS2/graphene geometry combines built-in field, short transit time, and trap-assisted gain, enabling zero-bias operation with responsivity above 10 A/W at 0.1 MHz.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Inference: If the true hot-carrier lifetime is below about 1 ps, the micrometer-scale photocurrent observed on bare TaSe2 away from the junction would have to come from something other than long-lived hot electrons, such as lateral carrier diffusion driven by the built-in field or a photothermoelectric current; the paper's zero-bias and 785 nm control experiments narrow this down but cannot fully
Inference: The same band-separation argument should apply to other 2H polytype metallic TMDCs with charge-density-wave gaps, so the luminescence and energy-transfer effects may be a family property and not unique to TaSe2; testing a sibling compound like 2H-TaS2 would show whether the mechanism generalizes.
Inference: The thickness-dependent emission peak (about 100 meV shift from monolayer to 50 nm) could be used as an optical ruler for flake thickness in device fabrication, and might allow tuning the donor-acceptor spectral overlap to optimize NRET in heterostructures.

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Colleague — quick take on 1908.06913. The paper has one strong, novel result: 2H-TaSe2, a metal, shows genuine photoluminescence. The controls are solid — high vacuum, low power, inert exfoliation, no oxide Raman peak, and a thickness-dependent peak shift. I was convinced on that point before finishing the introduction. The 7-fold MoS2 PL enhancement and the vertical photodetector with >10 A/W at 0.1 MHz are direct measurements and look real.

The soft spots are in the mechanism section. The 'rather long lifetime' for hot electrons rests on TRPL decays that, by the authors' own admission, are below the reliable deconvolution floor (~9.5 ps for a 95 ps IRF). Their extracted means are 6.8 ps and 2.5 ps. Those numbers don't support 'long.' Worse, even a 10 ps lifetime gives a diffusion length of tens of nanometers in a metal, not the multi-micrometer lateral collection claimed in the scanning photocurrent (points 5–6 in Fig. 4b). So the off-junction photocurrent is probably not hot-electron collection; a bolometric or photoconductive response would also be bias-dependent and weak at 785 nm, and the paper doesn't rule that out. The NRET attribution relies on a rate-equation model with unmeasured rates — fine as a qualitative picture, not as proof.

In short: the PL observation and device demonstrations are solid and worth publishing. The 'excellent hot electron injector' claim is not supported by the data, and the abstract and discussion overstate it. That is a real but fixable flaw. Getting better TRPL time resolution, or dropping the long-lifetime claim and treating the off-junction response as photothermal, would fix it. The 785 nm control should be done at matched absorbed power to exclude heating.

Would I send this to referees? Yes. The core observation is new and carefully controlled, and a good referee will catch the mechanism issue. The authors clearly know the deconvolution limit; they just let the story outrun the data. That is what peer review is for. Read it for the PL controls and the photodetector; take the hot-carrier claims with salt.

Referee Report

3 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper reports strong photoluminescence and inter-band optical absorption in the layered metal 2H-TaSe2, and uses this in three applications: non-radiative resonant energy transfer (NRET) to enhance MoS2 photoluminescence, hot-electron injection from TaSe2 into MoS2, and a vertical TaSe2/MoS2/graphene photodetector with reported responsivity greater than 10 A/W at 0.1 MHz. The authors characterize the polytype using temperature-dependent resistivity and Raman spectroscopy, rule out oxide-related emission through vacuum, inert-atmosphere, Raman, and stability controls, and present scanning photocurrent, time-resolved photoluminescence, and device-level electrical measurements.

Significance. If the claims are established, the paper demonstrates a multifunctional metallic 2D material that can serve simultaneously as a contact, an absorber, a PL donor, and a hot-carrier source, which would be of genuine interest for all-2D optoelectronics. The paper has real strengths: careful controls for oxide-related emission (Section 2.1 and Supplementary Notes 3-5), polytype identification by multiple techniques, a large set of TRPL statistics across seven flakes, and a vertical photodetector with a useful performance comparison table. These direct measurements are valuable independently of the mechanistic interpretations. However, two load-bearing mechanistic claims—the long hot-electron lifetime and the NRET attribution—rest on evidence that is weaker than the paper's framing suggests, and they need to be re-supported or reframed before publication.

major comments (3)

[Supplementary Note 7; Section 2.1; Abstract] The paper's central claim that TaSe2 has a 'rather long lifetime' and is an 'excellent hot electron injector' is not supported by the TRPL data. The mean deconvolved lifetimes (6.8 ps at 45 µW and 2.5 ps at 140 µW) are below the authors' own accuracy threshold, stated as 10% of the IRF width (about 9.5 ps for an IRF FWHM of ~95 ps). The Supplementary Note itself concludes that the lifetimes are 'shorter than 10 ps', and the main text acknowledges 'some inaccuracy'. Calling these values 'significantly longer than conventional metals' therefore overstates what the measurement can establish. The authors should either provide a direct measurement with faster time resolution (e.g., a streak camera or upconversion setup) or explicitly downgrade the claim to an upper bound of about 10 ps.
[Section 2.3, Points 5 and 6 in Figure 4] The off-junction photocurrent observed when the 532 nm laser is on TaSe2 several micrometers away from the contact is attributed to collection of photoexcited carriers over that distance. This is quantitatively difficult to reconcile with a carrier lifetime of at most tens of picoseconds. For a conservative mobility of 100 cm2/Vs and a lifetime of 10 ps, the diffusion length is of order 50 nm, orders of magnitude shorter than the micrometer-scale collection shown in Figure 4b,d. The alternative bolometric or photoconductive response of the TaSe2 channel—which would also be bias-dependent and vanish at zero bias—is not excluded by the 785 nm control, because that control only shows a weaker photoresponse, not the absence of a thermal mechanism. The authors should provide a quantitative carrier-collection model or a discriminating experiment (e.g., temperature dependence of the photocurrent, time-resolved photocurrent, or a study of the photocurrent versus contact distance).
[Section 2.2, Equation (1) and Supplementary Note 8] The NRET attribution of the sevenfold MoS2 PL enhancement relies on a rate-equation model with several unmeasured rates (Gamma_ET, Gamma_CT, Gamma_s, Gamma_d, and the generation ratio). The model is not fitted to the data, and the derivation assumes that charge transfer, cavity/reflection effects, and changes in MoS2 absorption are negligible. No spacer-layer control (e.g., inserting hBN of varying thickness) is provided to establish the distance-dependent dipole-dipole character of the enhancement. As written, the data show a real PL enhancement but do not uniquely identify the mechanism. Please add a control experiment or explicitly model the alternative contributions.

minor comments (6)

[Abstract and Section 3] The abstract and discussion state that TaSe2 exhibits a 'rather long lifetime' of photoelectrons, while Supplementary Note 7 concludes that the lifetime is shorter than 10 ps. These statements should be reconciled so the main text does not contradict the supplementary data.
[Section 2.1] The claim of 'strong optical absorption' is not directly quantified. The differential reflectance data in Supplementary Figure 9 show a broad interference-dominated response with no sharp excitonic feature. An absorption spectrum or a quantitative comparison with a known absorber would strengthen the statement.
[Figure 2c] The caption states that error bars are obtained from a large number of flakes and positions, but it does not specify whether they are standard deviations or standard errors, nor the number of samples. Please provide this information.
[Figure 4d] The top panel of Figure 4d is described as the spatial distribution of the built-in field, but it has no axis labels or scale. A quantitative relationship between this schematic field profile and the photocurrent data would help the reader evaluate the argument.
[Supplementary Note 7] The sentence 'deconvolution can accurately extract lifetimes only up to 10% of the IRF width' should read 'down to 10% of the IRF width'. The extracted values below this threshold are currently reported as means with standard deviations, which suggests a precision the authors themselves disclaim; a clear uncertainty statement is needed.
[Section 2.4, Figure 6f] The high-speed measurement is performed with a 10 MΩ oscilloscope termination. Please state the RC-limited bandwidth of the measurement chain so that the 0.1 MHz response is not overinterpreted as the intrinsic detector bandwidth.

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No significant circularity: the paper's central claims rest on new measurements, and the rate-equation model is not fitted to the quantity it is used to explain.

full rationale

I examined the derivation chain for the PL enhancement, the hot-electron-lifetime claim, and the photodetector responsivity. The PL enhancement from MoS2 in the TaSe2/MoS2 stack is a directly measured seven-fold change, and the rate-equation model in Supplementary Note 8 (Eqs. 1-4) is a phenomenological description using unmeasured rates; the enhancement factor alpha is not obtained by fitting the model to the enhancement, so Eq. (1) does not reduce to its own input by construction. The hot-electron claim is supported by two independent measurements, TRPL lifetimes and scanning photocurrent, and the paper uses the extracted lifetimes to interpret the photocurrent rather than fitting the photocurrent to define a lifetime. The vertical photodetector responsivity is a measured device result compared against external benchmarks in Supplementary Table 1. The paper cites the authors' prior work (refs 5, 20, 42) for NRET and vertical-device frameworks, but those citations are not load-bearing for the new measurements: the NRET framework is also supported by independent references 17-19, and the central experimental claims do not depend on an unverified self-citation. The TRPL limitation noted in Supplementary Note 7 (deconvolution can extract lifetimes only down to about 10% of the IRF width, while the extracted means are 6.8 ps and 2.5 ps) is a measurement-accuracy caveat, not a circular step, and the paper explicitly acknowledges the resulting inaccuracy. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, no uniqueness theorem is imported from the authors' own work, and no ansatz is smuggled in through self-citation. I therefore find no circularity in the claimed derivation chain.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on a set of unmeasured rates, prior band-structure calculations, an assumed validity of TRPL deconvolution at the IRF limit, and an assumed optical equivalence of MoS2 on TaSe2 and SiO2. No new entities are introduced.

free parameters (1)

Power-law exponent n = 0.52
Fit to photocurrent versus optical power in Fig 6a (I_ph is proportional to P_op^0.52); used to infer trap-dominated gain, but not independently predicted.

assumptions (4)

ad hoc to paper The PL enhancement of MoS2 on TaSe2 is modeled solely by non-radiative energy transfer rates (Gamma_ET, Gamma_CT, Gamma_s, Gamma_d) without measurable values; other contributions such as charge transfer, cavity or reflection effects, and altered absorption are assumed negligible.
Section 2.2 and Supplementary Note 8; the equation (Eq. 1) contains several unmeasured rates, so it can rationalize rather than independently verify the 7x enhancement.
domain assumption Published band structures and ARPES data for 2H-TaSe2 (refs 11-15, 29-31) are accurate enough to assign the observed PL to specific interband transitions at 2.33 eV.
Section 2.1 uses these references for the qualitative band diagram in Fig 2d; no first-principles calculation is performed in this paper.
domain assumption The deconvolved TRPL lifetimes (2.5-6.8 ps) are treated as physically meaningful carrier lifetimes even though the measured decays are close to the instrument response function and the paper states deconvolution is only reliable to about 10 percent of the IRF width.
Supplementary Note 7; the long lifetime statement in the abstract and Section 2.3 depends on these values.
domain assumption The ratio of measured PL intensities (MoS2 on TaSe2 vs on SiO2) is taken directly as the exciton-density enhancement; no correction is made for possible differences in laser absorption, outcoupling, or interference in the stack.
Section 2.2 and Eq. (1); if the collection efficiency differs between the two areas, the 7x factor would not equal the physical NRET enhancement.

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abstract

Conventional metals, in general, do not exhibit strong photoluminescence. 2H-TaSe$_2$ is a layered transition metal dichalcogenide that possesses metallic property with charge density wave characteristics. Here we show that 2H-TaSe$_2$ exhibits a surprisingly strong optical absorption and photoluminescence resulting from inter-band transitions. We use this perfect combination of electrical and optical properties in several optoelectronic applications. We show a seven-fold enhancement in the photoluminescence intensity of otherwise weakly luminescent multi-layer MoS$_2$ through non-radiative resonant energy transfer from TaSe$_2$ transition dipoles. Using a combination of scanning photocurrent and time-resolved photoluminescence measurements, we also show that the hot electrons generated by light absorption in TaSe$_2$ have a rather long lifetime unlike conventional metals, making TaSe$_2$ an excellent hot electron injector. Finally, we show a vertical TaSe$_2$/MoS$_2$/graphene photodetector demonstrating a responsivity of $>10$ AW$^{-1}$ at $0.1$ MHz - one of the fastest reported photodetectors using MoS$_2$.

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**Figure 1.** Raman and electrical characterization of 2H-TaSe2.(a) Schematic representation of crystal structure of 2H-TaSe2. (b) Current-voltage characteristics of a two-probe device using multi-layer 2H-TaSe2 as the channel at different temperatures. (c) Variation of resistance (scaled by the width of the flake) with temperature as extracted from (b). (d) Raman shift in multi-layer 2H-TaSe2 at room temperature using a 532 nm … view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Photoluminescence (PL) from 2H-TaSe2. (a)-(b) Temperature dependent PL spectra of monolayer [in (a)] and 50 nm thick [in (b)] 2H-TaSe2 flakes. (c) Variation of the PL peak position as the function of thickness. The error bars are obtained by characterizing a large number of flakes, and several measurements from different positions on each flake. (d) Schematic bandstructure of 2H-TaSe2 with crystal momenta along diff… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Non-radiative resonant energy transfer (NRET) between TaSe2 and MoS2.(a) Schematic representation of spectral overlap required between a donor and an acceptor for NRET process. (b) Schematic representation in-plane dipole-dipole interaction between MoS2 and TaSe2. (c-e) Photoluminescence (PL) spectra from (c) isolated TaSe2, (d) isolated multi-layer MoS2, and (e) MoS2/TaSe2 junction at 295 K. The PL intensity from … view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Hot Carrier injection from TaSe2 to MoS2. (a) Schematic representation of the device. (b) Optical image of the fabricated heterojunction device indicating laser excitation spots (1-6) for 532 nm wavelength. The arrow indicates the direction of laser scan. Scale bar is …

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Photocurrent generation mechanism in TaSe2/MoS2/graphene vertical heterojunction. (a)-(b) Schematic diagram and optical micrograph of the device. (c) Currentvoltage characteristics of the device with various incident power of 532 nm laser. Inset: Currentvoltage chara…

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Performance of TaSe2/MoS2/graphene photodetector.(a) Photocurrent as a function of incident optical power for 532 nm wavelength. Exponent in the power law fitting is 0.52, showing the role of traps in the device performance. The error bars are obtained from multiple me…

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