Robust Excitons and Trions in Monolayer MoTe2

Molybdenum telluride (MoTe2) has emerged as a special member in the family of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, owing to the strong spin-orbit coupling and relatively small energy gap, which offers new applications in valleytronic and excitonic devices. Here we successfully demonstrated the electrical modulation of negatively charged (X(-)), neutral (X(0)), and positively charged (X(+)) excitons in monolayer MoTe2 via photoluminescence spectroscopy. The binding energies of X(+) and X(-) were measured to be ∼24 and ∼27 meV, respectively.The exciton binding energy of monolayer MoTe2 was measured to be 0.58 ± 0.08 eV via photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy, which matches well with our calculated value of 0.64 eV.