Abstract
Valley-related physics, optics, and electronics have been extensively investigated in transition metal dichalcogenides with a honeycomb lattice such as molybdenum disulfide. Their photoemission properties exhibit a circular dichroism due to energy degenerate but inequivalent valleys located at K and K′ in momentum space. Recently linear dichroism was observed in few-layer black phosphorus with highly anisotropic in-plane optical properties. Here, we report a novel valley-selective linear dichroism of the photoluminescence in layered thin-film tin sulfide (SnS). We identified two PL emission peaks, exhibiting an orthogonal linear dichroism, arising from two inequivalent valleys in the energy band. The photon emission from the Γ-X valley is completely x-polarized, while in contrast, the photon emission from the Γ-Y valley is purely y-polarized. This unique valley-selective linear dichroism in SnS is further confirmed by the band-edge absorption measurements along the Γ-X and Γ-Y directions, respectively. Ou...
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