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Van der Waals heterostructures based on TMDC semiconducting materials have emerged as promising materials due to their spin-valley properties efficiently contrived by the stacking-twist angle. The twist angle drastically alters the…

The creation of moir\'e patterns in crystalline solids is a powerful approach to manipulate their electronic properties, which are fundamentally influenced by periodic potential landscapes. In 2D materials, a moir\'e pattern with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Kyle L. Seyler , Pasqual Rivera , Hongyi Yu , Nathan P. Wilson , Essance L. Ray , David Mandrus , Jiaqiang Yan , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu

Controlling exciton recombination in atomically thin semiconductors is central to their optoelectronic functionality, as the competition between radiative and non-radiative decay channels governs emission efficiency. Existing approaches,…

Bilayer van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures such as MoS2/WS2 and MoSe2/WSe2 have attracted much attention recently, particularly because of their type II band alignments and the formation of interlayer exciton as the lowest-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Shiyuan Gao , Li Yang , Catalin D. Spataru

Moir\'e potentials in two-dimensional materials have been proven to be of fundamental importance to fully understand the electronic structure of van der Waals heterostructures, from superconductivity to correlated excitonic states. However,…

Moir\'e lattices created in two-dimensional heterostructures exhibit rich many-body physics of interacting electrons and excitons and, at the same time, suggest promising optoelectronic applications. Here, we study the cooperative radiance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Jan Kumlin , Ajit Srivastava , Thomas Pohl

Distinguished by their long lifetimes, strong dipolar interactions, and periodic confinement, moir\'e excitons provide a fertile territory for realizing interaction-driven excitonic phases beyond conventional semiconductor systems. Formed…

We investigate the magnetic proximity effect in van der Waals heterostructure formed by a monolayer semiconductor stacked on a 2D ferromagnet, where the lattice mismatch and twisting between the layers typically lead to the formation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-20 Qingjun Tong , Mingxing Chen , Wang Yao

We investigate excitons in stacked transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) layers under perpendicularly applied electric field, herein MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ van der Waals heterostructures. Band structures are obtained with density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 A. Chaves , J. G. Azadani , V. Ongun Özçelik , R. Grassi , T. Low

The moir\'e pattern observed in stacked non-commensurate crystal lattices, such as hetero-bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, produces a periodic modulation of their bandgap. Excitons subjected to this potential landscape exhibit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-08 I. R. Lavor , D. R. da Costa , L. Covaci , M. V. Milošević , F. M. Peeters , A. Chaves

Van der Waals heterostructures formed by stacking two-dimensional atomic crystals are a unique platform for exploring new phenomena and functionalities. Interlayer excitons, bound states of spatially separated electron-hole pairs in van der…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-14 Zefang Wang , Yi-Hsin Chiu , Kevin Honz , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Neutral and charged excitons (trions) in atomically-thin materials offer important capabilities for photonics, from ultrafast photodetectors to highly-efficient light-emitting diodes and lasers. Recent studies of van der Waals (vdW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Jaydeep Joshi , Tong Zhou , Sergiy Krylyuk , Albert V. Davydov , Igor Zutic , Patrick M. Vora

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have attracted great interest because of their rich material combinations.The discovery of two-dimensional magnets has provided a new platform for magnetic vdW heterointerfaces; however, research on…

The ability to assemble layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials to form permutations of van der Waals heterostructures provides significant opportunities in materials design and synthesis. Interlayer interactions provide a path to new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-09 Zachariah Hennighausen , Jisoo Moon , Kathleen M. McCreary , Connie H. Li , Olaf M. J. van `t Erve , Berend T. Jonker

Moir\'e superlattices of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) enable unprecedented spatial control of electron wavefunctions in an artificial lattice with periodicities more than ten times larger than that of atomic…

Excitons in semiconductors, bound pairs of excited electrons and holes, can form the basis for new classes of quantum optoelectronic devices. A van der Waals heterostructure built from atomically thin semiconducting transition metal…

We investigate the impact of crystal alignment on excitonic behavior in WSe$_{2}$/MoS$_{2}$ van der Waals heterostructures by comparing eclipsed (AA) and staggered (AB) stacking configurations. Our first-principles and symmetry-based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Widad Louafi , Karim Rezouali , Daniele Varsano , Maurizia Palummo , Maurits W. Haverkort , Samir Lounis

Photoexcited intralayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) with type-II band alignment have been observed to tunnel into interlayer excitons on ultrafast timescales. Such interlayer excitons have sufficiently long lifetimes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Høgni C. Kamban , Thomas G. Pedersen

Moir\'e superlattices created by stacking atomic layers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have emerged as a class of fascinating artificial photonic and electronic materials. An appealing attribute of these structures is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yueh-Chun Wu , Matthew DeCapua , ZhongChen Xu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , YouGuo Shi , Jun Yan

Van der Waals heterostructures (vdWH) provide an ideal playground for exploring light-matter interactions at the atomic scale. In particular, structures with a type-II band alignment can yield detailed insight into free carrier-to-photon…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Simone Latini , Kirsten T. Winther , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen