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An emerging class of semiconductor heterostructures involves stacking discrete monolayers such as the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) to form van der Waals heterostructures. In these structures, it is possible to create interlayer…

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are promising materials for next-generation optoelectronic devices, owing to their strong excitonic responses and atomic thickness. Controlling their light emission electrically is a…

Ultrafast charge separation after photoexcitation is a common phenomenon in various van-der-Waals (vdW) heterostructures with great relevance for future applications in light harvesting and detection. Theoretical understanding of this…

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are promising materials for next-generation optoelectronic devices, yet their implementation is hindered by limited sample stability and challenges in forming reliable electrical…

Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors exhibit strong excitonic effects and hold promise for optical and optoelectronic applications. Yet, electron doping of TMDs leads to the conversion of neutral excitons into…

Exciton binding energies of hundreds of meV and strong light absorption in the optical frequency range make transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) promising for novel optoelectronic nanodevices. In particular, atomically thin TMDs can be…

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Semiconductor heterostructures are the fundamental platform for many important device applications such as lasers, light-emitting diodes, solar cells and high-electron-mobility transistors. Analogous to traditional heterostructures, layered…

Two dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials, such as MoS2, WS2, MoSe2, and WSe2, have received extensive attention in the past decade due to their extraordinary physical properties. The unique properties make them…

Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures (HS) exhibit twist-angle ($\theta$) dependent interlayer charge transfer, driven by moir\'e potential that tunes the electronic band structure with varying $\theta$. Apart from the magic angles…

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Excitons dominate the optics of atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides and 2D van der Waals heterostructures. Interlayer 2D excitons, with an electron and a hole residing in different layers, form rapidly in heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 M. G. Burdanova , M. Liu , M. Staniforth , Y. Zheng , R. Xiang , S. Chiashi , A. Anisimov , E. I. Kauppinen , S. Maruyama , J. Lloyd-Hughes

Van der Waals heterostructures give access to a wide variety of new phenomena that emerge thanks to the combination of properties brought in by the constituent layered materials. We show here that owing to an enhanced interaction cross…

Van der Waals heterostructures built by vertically stacked transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a rich energy landscape including interlayer and intervalley excitons. Recent experiments demonstrated an ultrafast charge transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Giuseppe Meneghini , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

The interlayer quasi-chemical-bonding (QCB) interactions of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials promote the research field of interlayer-engineering and cause interlayer charge density redistributions (ICDRs). The ICDRs have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-11 Yu-Meng Gao , Nie-Wei Wang , Shi-Xuan Yuan , Wen-Xin Xia , Jiang-Long Wang , Xing-Qiang Shi

Monolayer two-dimensional transitional metal dichalcogenides, such as MoS2, WS2 and WSe2, are direct band gap semiconductors with large exciton binding energy. They attract growing attentions for opto-electronic applications including solar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Shoujun Zheng , Jinkyu So , Fucai Liu , Zheng Liu , Nikolay Zheludev , Hong Jin Fan

Charge separated interlayer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterobilayers are being explored for moir\'e exciton lattices and exciton condensates. The presence of permanent dipole moments and the poorly screened Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jue Wang , Qianhui Shi , En-Min Shih , Lin Zhou , Wenjing Wu , Yusong Bai , Daniel A. Rhodes , Katayun Barmak , James Hone , Cory R. Dean , X. -Y. Zhu

Ultrafast charge transfer processes provide a facile way to create interlayer excitons in directly contacted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) layers. More sophisticated heterostructures composed of TMD/hBN/TMD enable new ways to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Yoseob Yoon , Zuocheng Zhang , Ruishi Qi , Andrew Y. Joe , Renee Sailus , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Sefaattin Tongay , Feng Wang

Van der Waals heterostructures have become a rapidly growing field in condensed matter research, offering a platform to engineer novel quantum systems by stacking different two-dimensional (2D) materials. A diverse range of material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Bharti Matta , Philipp Rosenzweig , Craig Polley , Ulrich Starke , Kathrin Küster

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures constructed with two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted great interests, due to their fascinating properties and potential for novel applications. While earlier efforts have advanced the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Zhonghui Nie , Yuhan Wang , Ziling Li , Yue Sun , Xiaoping Liu , Edmond Turcu , Yi Shi , Rong Zhang , Yu Ye , Yongbing Xu , Fengqiu Wang

Janus MoSSe monolayers were recently synthesised by replacing S by Se on one side of MoS$_2$ (or vice versa for MoSe$_2$). Due to the different electronegativity of S and Se these structures carry a finite out-of-plane dipole moment. As we…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-02 Anders C. Riis-Jensen , Mohnish Pandey , Kristian S. Thygesen

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit an extensive variety of novel electronic properties, such as charge density wave quantum spin Hall phenomena, superconductivity, and Dirac and Weyl semi-metallic properties.…

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