Intervalley scattering in MoS2 imaged by two-photon photoemission with a high-harmonic probe

Abstract

We report on the direct mapping of electron transfer in the momentum space of bulk MoS2 by means of time- and angle-resolved two-photon photoemission with a high-harmonic probe. For this purpose, we have combined a high-repetition rate high-harmonic source with tunable femtosecond pump pulses and a 3D (kx,ky,E) electron spectrometer. We show that optical excitation slightly above the A exciton resonance results in an immediate occupation of the conduction band at K¯ followed by an ultrafast transfer (<50 fs) to the conduction band minimum at Σ¯. Both signals, at K¯ and Σ¯, do not vanish over the observed period of 400 fs. The technique described here enables direct access to the charge transfer dynamics in k-space and allows the study of decay times and decay channels in various systems with dependence on the excess energy or helicity of the excitation.