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Moir\'e materials offer a versatile platform for engineering excitons with unprecedented control, promising next-generation optoelectronic applications. While continuum models are widely used to study moir\'e excitons due to their…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-08 Indrajit Maity , Johannes Lischner , Arash A. Mostofi , Ángel Rubio

At cryogenic temperature and at the single emitter level, the optical properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes depart drastically from that of a one-dimensional (1D) object. In fact, the (usually unintentional) localization of excitons in…

Electrons and holes can spontaneously form excitons and condense in a semimetal or semiconductor, as predicted decades ago. This type of Bose condensation can happen at much higher temperatures in comparison with dilute atomic gases.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Qiang Gao , Yang-hao Chan , Yuzhe Wang , Haotian Zhang , Jinxu Pu , Shengtao Cui , Yichen Yang , Zhengtai Liu , Dawei Shen , Zhe Sun , Juan Jiang , Tai C. Chiang , Peng Chen

The excitonic spectra of single layer GeS and GeSe are predicted by ab initio GW-Bethe Salpeter equation calculations. G 0 W 0 calculations for the band structures find a fundamental band gap of 2.85 eV for GeS and 1.70 eV for GeSe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Lidia C. Gomes , P. E. Trevisanutto , A. Carvalho , A. S. Rodin , A. H. Castro Neto

Optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers are controlled by the Wannier-Mott excitons forming a series of $1s$, $2s$, $2p$,... hydrogen-like states. We develop the theory of the excited excitonic states energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 M. M. Glazov , L. E. Golub , G. Wang , X. Marie , T. Amand , B. Urbaszek

Electronic and optical excitations in two-dimensional moir\'e systems are uniquely sensitive to local atomic registries, leading to materials- and twist-angle specific correlated electronic ground states with varied degree of localization.…

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayer has recently emerged as an important two-dimensional semiconductor with promising potentials for electronic and optoelectronic devices. Unlike semi-metallic graphene, layered TMDC has a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Ziliang Ye , Ting Cao , Kevin O'Brien , Hanyu Zhu , Xiaobo Yin , Yuan Wang , Steven G. Louie , Xiang Zhang

Excitons in thin layers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are highly subject to the strongly modified Coulomb electron-hole interaction in these materials. Therefore, they do not follow the model system of a two-dimensional…

The trend towards ever smaller high-performance devices in modern technology requires novel materials with new functionalities. The recent emergence of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials has opened up possibilities for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Maja Feierabend , Zahra Khatibi , Gunnar Berghäuser , Ermin Malic

Monolayer C$_3$N is an emerging two-dimensional indirect band gap semiconductor with interesting mechanical, thermal, and electronic properties. In this work we present a description of C$_3$N electronic and dielectric properties, focusing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Miki Bonacci , Matteo Zanfrognini , Elisa Molinari , Alice Ruini , Marilia J. Caldas , Andrea Ferretti , Daniele Varsano

The effect of an hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer close aligned with twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is studied. At sufficiently low angles between twisted bilayer graphene and hBN, $\theta_{hBN} \lesssim 2^\circ$, the graphene electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-28 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

Encapsulating graphene in hexagonal Boron Nitride has several advantages: the highest mobilities reported to date are achieved in this way, and precise nanostructuring of graphene becomes feasible through the protective hBN layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Yongping Du , Ning Xu , Xianqing Lin , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We introduced a method to obtain the continuum description of the elastic properties of mono- layer h-BN through ab initio density functional theory. This thermodynamically rigorous contin- uum description of the elastic response is…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-01 Qing Peng , Amir R. Zamiri , Suvranu De

We have investigated excitons in highly-aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) through optical spectroscopy at low temperature (1.5 K) and high magnetic fields ($\textbf{\textit{B}}$) up to 55 T. SWCNT/polyacrylic acid films were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Shaver , S. A. Crooker , J. A. Fagan , E. K. Hobbie , N. Ubrig , O. Portugall , V. Perebeinos , Ph. Avouris , J. Kono

The evolution of excitons from 2D to 3D is of great importance in photo-physics, yet the layer-dependent exciton polarizability has not been investigated in 2D semiconductors. Here, we determine the exciton polarizabilities for 3- to…

A theoretical study of the exciton binding energy in the two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride monolayer is presented within the tight-binding approximation (TBA). A self-consistent equation for the interband electron-hole propagators is…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-28 Zoran Rukelj , Vito Despoja

Excitons with binding energies of a few hundreds of meV control the optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Knowledge of the fine structure of these excitons is therefore essential to understand the optoelectronic…

The high-quality structures containing semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (S-TMDs) monolayer (MLs) required for optical and electrical studies are achieved by their encapsulation in hexagonal BN (hBN) flakes. To examine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 A. O. Slobodeniuk , M. R. Molas

The existence of spontaneous magnetization that fingerprints a ground-state ferromagnetic order was recently observed in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials. Despite progress in the fabrication and manipulation of the atom-thick…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 S. Mikkola , I. Chestnov , I. Iorsh , V. Shahnazaryan

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is unique among two-dimensional materials, with a large band gap (~6 eV) and high thermal conductivity (>400 W/m/K), second only to diamond among electrical insulators. Most electronic studies to date have…