Coupled plasmon–phonon modes in monolayer MoS2

Abstract

We present a theoretical study of the plasmon–phonon coupling in a suspended monolayer MoS2 and a MoS2 substrate system using a diagrammatic self-consistent field theory. The four coupled plasmon–phonon modes and the four plasmon-surface phonon modes are observed due to the spin–orbit and electron-optic phonon interactions. The two of coupled plasmon–phonon and plasmon-surface phonon modes are optic-like and the other two are acoustic-like. The plasmon are strongly coupled with the optic-phonon in MoS2 and the surface optic-phonon in the substrates as the electron density or wave-vector increases. The strong plasmon–phonon coupling shows that the optoelectronic properties of monolayer MoS2 are evidently modulated by electron–phonon interactions. The hybrid plasmon–phonon polaritons can be achieved by strong light-mater interactions. This study is relevant to the application of MoS2 as novel plasmonic and nanophotonic devices.