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Exciton dissociation plays a crucial role in the performance of optoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In this work, we investigate the effect of an in-plane electric field on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-11 Tao Zhu , Chenhang Zheng , Lei Xu , Ming Yang

The equilibrium and non-equilibrium optical properties of single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are determined by strongly bound excitons. Exciton relaxation dynamics in TMDs have been extensively studied by time-domain…

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) and their moir\'e interfaces have been demonstrated for correlated electron states, including Mott insulators and electron/hole crystals commensurate with moir\'e superlattices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Yusong Bai , Yiliu Li , Song Liu , Yinjie Guo , Jordan Pack , Jue Wang , Cory R. Dean , James Hone , X. -Y. Zhu

Coherent coupling between excitons is at the heart of many-body interactions with transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures as an emergent platform for the investigation of these interactions. We employ multi-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Torben L. Purz , Eric W. Martin , Pasqual Rivera , William G. Holtzmann , Xiaodong Xu , Steven T. Cundiff

In transition metal dichalcogenides layers of atomic scale thickness, the electron-hole Coulomb interaction potential is strongly influenced by the sharp discontinuity of the dielectric function across the layer plane. This feature results…

Moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures give rise to rich excitonic phenomena associated with the interlayer twist angle and induced changes in the involved quantum states. Theoretical calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-13 Sudipta Kundu , Tomer Amit , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

The enhanced Coulomb interaction in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors leads to the tightly bound electron-hole pairs known as excitons. The large binding energy of excitons enables the formation of Rydberg excitons with high principal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Zhen Lian , Yun-Mei Li , Li Yan , Lei Ma , Dongxue Chen , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Chuanwei Zhang , Su-Fei Shi

We study a capacitor made of three monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) separated by hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN). We assume that the structure is symmetric with respect to the central layer plane. The symmetry includes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 M. Sammon , B. I. Shklovskii

The vertical stacking of two-dimensional materials into heterostructures gives rise to a plethora of intriguing optoelectronic properties and presents an unprecedented potential for technological development. While much progress has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 Joshua J. P. Thompson , Victoria Lumsargis , Maja Feierabend , Quichen Zhao , Kang Wang , Letian Dou , Libai Huang , Ermin Malic

Two dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures from transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) semiconductors show a new class of spatially separate excitons with extraordinary properties. The interlayer excitons (XI) have been studied…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-02 Jaehoon Ji , Jong Hyun Choi

In monolayers of the semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides, the electron-hole exchange interaction splits the exciton dispersion into a massive transverse branch, and a longitudinal branch that has very light or even zero mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Xu-Chen Yang , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

Twisted multilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a promising platform for realizing topological exciton phases. Here we propose that twisted TMD heterotrilayers WX$_2$/MX$_2$/WX$_2$ with layer symmetry represents a realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Ze-Hong Guo , Tao Yan , Jin-Zhu Zhao , Yuan-Jun Jin , Qizhong Zhu

The potential for low-threshold optical nonlinearity has received significant attention in the fields of photonics and conceptual optical neuron networks. Excitons in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are particularly promising in this…

We discuss neutral and charged complexes (biexciton and trion) formed by indirect excitons in layered quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. Indirect excitons -- long-lived neutral Coulomb-bound pairs of electrons and holes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Igor V. Bondarev , Maria R. Vladimirova

One-dimensional (1D) quantum systems are a cornerstone of many-body physics. However, their realization in solids has traditionally relied on top-down methods, which are limited by structural disorder and coarse confinement. Here, we…

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

When electron-hole pairs are excited in a semiconductor, it is a priori not clear if they form a fermionic plasma of unbound particles or a bosonic exciton gas. Usually, the exciton phase is associated with low temperatures. In atomically…

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures have unique properties that depend on the twisting angle and stacking order of two or more monolayers. However, their practical applications are limited by the low photoluminescence…

Excitons -- bound electron-hole pairs -- play a central role in light-matter interaction phenomena, and are crucial for wide-ranging applications from light harvesting and generation to quantum information processing. A long-standing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Jenny Hu , Etienne Lorchat , Xueqi Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tony F. Heinz , Puneet A. Murthy , Thibault Chervy

As a platform for optoelectronic devices based on exciton dynamics, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are often placed near metal interfaces or inside planar cavities. While the radiative properties of point dipoles at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Grace H. Chen , David Z. Li , Amy Butcher , Alexander A. High , Darrick E. Chang