Plasmon-assisted channel-tunable bistable states in a monolayer MoS2 nanoresonator coupled to a metallic nanoshell.

Abstract

We study how to obtain the channel-tunable bistable states in a coupled system consisting of a monolayer MoS₂ nanomechanical resonator (NR) and a metallic nanoshell (MNS) beyond the dipole approximation. The MNS is constructed by a metallic core and a dielectric shell. The calculated results show that the linear absorption spectrum exhibits some new features, such as three-phonon resonance, Rayleigh resonance, and ac-Stark resonance. In a strong exciton-plasmon coupling regime, the absorption peak and amplification peak in the absorption spectrum can be greatly enhanced by adjusting the exciton-phonon coupling strength. Especially, we plot the bistability phase diagrams in the system's parameter space and highlight the strong dependency of the lower (upper) bistable threshold on the pumping intensity, the MNS-NR distance, and the dielectric shell thickness. The ratio of linear absorption in the upper and lower stable states can reach 42. For a given MNS with a fixed shell thickness, it is easy to achieve single-channel or dual-channel bistable states by only adjusting the exciton-phonon coupling strength via modulation of the length of the MoS₂ nanosheet along the NR axis. The findings obtained here are very useful for extensive applications such as optical memory cells and channel-tunable bistable switches.