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Two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures (HS) formed by transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers offer a unique platform for the study of intralayer and interlayer excitons as well as moir\'e-pattern-induced features. Particularly,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Mohammed Adel Aly , Manan Shah , Lorenz Maximilian Schneider , Kyungnam Kang , Martin Koch , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Arash Rahimi-Iman

Identifying two-dimensional heterostructures with exceptional electronic and optical properties remains an active area of research in advanced optoelectronics. Here, we present a comprehensive first-principles investigation of the…

Recent advances in van der Waals heterostructures have opened the new frontier of moir\'{e} physics, whereby tuning the interlayer twist angle or adjusting lattice parameter mismatch have led to a plethora of exotic phenomena such as…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene1, boron nitride2, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)3-5, have sparked wide interest in both device physics and technological applications at the atomic monolayer limit. These 2D…

We investigate the photoluminescence of interlayer excitons in heterostructures consisting of monolayer MoSe2 and WSe2 at low temperatures. Surprisingly, we find a doublet structure for such interlayer excitons. Both peaks exhibit long…

Heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unique opportunities in optoelectronics due to their strong light-matter interaction and the formation of dipolar interlayer excitons. Introducing a twist angle or lattice…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-16 Giuseppe Meneghini , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides provide a unique platform to engineer optoelectronic devices tuning their optical properties via stacking, twisting, or straining. Using ab initio Many-Body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 R. Reho , A. R. Botello-Méndez , D. Sangalli , M. J. Verstraete , Zeila Zanolli

Moir\'e patterns with angular mismatch in van der Waals heterostructures composed of atomically thin semiconducting materials are a fascinating platform to engineer the optically generated excitonic properties towards novel quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Keisuke Shinokita , Yuhei Miyauchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kazunari Matsuda

Monolayer (ML) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) integrated in optical microcavities host exciton-polaritons as a hallmark of the strong light-matter coupling regime. Analogous concepts for hybrid light-matter systems employing…

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals materials have revolutionized the study of electronic and excitonic systems by creating periodic electrostatic potentials. Extending this concept to magnetic materials promises new pathways in merging…

Interlayer excitons (IXs), composed of electron and hole states localized in different layers, excel in bilayers composed of atomically thin van der Waals materials such as semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Mauro Brotons-Gisbert , Brian D. Gerardot , Alexander W. Holleitner , Ursula Wurstbauer

The availability of accessible fabrication methods based on deterministic transfer of atomically thin crystals has been essential for the rapid expansion of research into van der Waals heterostructures. An inherent issue of these techniques…

Moire superlattices-twisted van der Waals (vdW) structures with small angles-are attracting increasing attention in condensed matter physics, due to important phenomena revealed therein, including unconventional superconductivity,…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 Jialin Chen , Xiao Lin , Mingyuan Chen , Tony Low , Hongsheng Chen , Siyuan Dai

Excitons in monolayer semiconductors have large optical transition dipole for strong coupling with light field. Interlayer excitons in heterobilayers, with layer separation of electron and hole components, feature large electric dipole that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Wei-Ting Hsu , Bo-Han Lin , Li-Syuan Lu , Ming-Hao Lee , Ming-Wen Chu , Lain-Jong Li , Wang Yao , Wen-Hao Chang , Chih-Kang Shih

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers exhibit periodic moir\'e potentials, which can trap excitons at certain high-symmetry sites. At small twist angles, TMD lattices undergo an atomic reconstruction, altering the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Strongly enhanced electron-electron interaction in semiconducting moir\'e superlattices formed by transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) heterobilayers has led to a plethora of intriguing fermionic correlated states. Meanwhile, interlayer…

Moir\'e patterns of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers have proven to be an ideal platform to host unusual correlated electronic phases, emerging magnetism, and correlated exciton physics. While the existence of novel…

Artificial moir\'e superlattices in 2d van der Waals heterostructure is a new venue for realizing and controlling correlated electronic phenomena. Recently, twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ emerged as a new robust moir\'e system hosting a correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhen Bi , Liang Fu

The optical spectra of vertically stacked MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterostructures contain additional 'interlayer' excitonic peaks that are absent in the individual monolayer materials and exhibit a significant spatial charge separation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Roland Gillen

Degenerate extrema in the energy dispersion of charge carriers in solids, also referred to as valleys, can be regarded as a binary quantum degree of freedom, which can potentially be used to implement valleytronic concepts in van der Waals…