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We demonstrate a new approach for dynamically manipulating the optical response of an atomically thin semiconductor, a monolayer of MoSe2, by suspending it over a metallic mirror. First, we show that suspended van der Waals heterostructures…

Strong many-body interactions in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors give rise to efficient exciton-exciton annihilation (EEA). This process is expected to result in the generation of unbound high energy carriers. Here, we report an…

Collective excitations of bound electron-hole pairs -- known as excitons -- are ubiquitous in condensed matter, emerging in systems as diverse as band semiconductors, molecular crystals, and proteins. Recently, their existence in strongly…

Long lifetimes of spatially indirect excitons (IXs), also known as interlayer excitons, make possible long-range IX propagation. Van der Waals heterostructures composed of atomically thin layers of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 L. H. Fowler-Gerace , Zhiwen Zhou , E. A. Szwed , L. V. Butov

Semiconductor heterostructures are backbones for solid state based optoelectronic devices. Recent advances in assembly techniques for van der Waals heterostructures has enabled the band engineering of semiconductor heterojunctions for…

In this work, we propose novel van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures composed of Xenes, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), phosphorene, and transition metal trichalcogenides (TMTCs), which are separated by insulating hexagonal boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Anastasia Spiridonova , Klaus Ziegler

Van der Waals heterostructures usually formed using atomic thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with a direct bandgap in the near-infrared to the visible range are promising candidates for low-dimensional optoelectronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Guanghui Cheng , Baikui Li , Chunyu Zhao , Xin Yan , Hong Wang , Kei May Lau , Jiannong Wang

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

Excitons in van der Waals heterostructures come in many different forms. In bilayer structures, the electron and hole may be localized on the same layer or they may be separated forming an interlayer exciton with a finite out-of-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Thorsten Deilmann , Kristian Sommer Thygesen

Controlling the flow of charge neutral interlayer exciton (IX) quasiparticles can potentially lead to low loss excitonic circuits. Here, we report unidirectional transport of IXs along nanoscale electrostatically defined channels in an…

Excitons, composite electron-hole quasiparticles, are known to play an important role in optoelectronic phenomena in many semiconducting materials. Recent experiments and theory indicate that the band-gap optics of the newly discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Yuri N. Gartstein , Xiao Li , Chuanwei Zhang

Van der Waals materials enable the construction of atomically sharp interfaces between compounds with distinct crystal and electronic properties. This is dramatically exploited in moir\'e systems, where a lattice mismatch or twist between…

Excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) dominate their optical response due to exceptionally large binding energies arising from their two-dimensional nature. Several theoretical models have been proposed to describe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Anabel Atash Kahlon , Matan Meshulam , Tomer Eini , Thomas Poirier , James H. Edgar , Seth Ariel Tongay , Itai Epstein

Vertically stacked van der Waals heterostructures constitute a promising platform for providing tailored band alignment with enhanced excitonic systems. Here we report observations of neutral and charged interlayer excitons in trilayer…

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

Excitons are key to the optoelectronic applications of van der Waals semiconductors with the potential for versatile on-demand tuning of properties. Yet, their electrical manipulation is complicated by their inherent charge neutrality and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Sarthak Das , Ding Huang , Ivan Verzhbitskiy , Zi-En Ooi , Chit Siong Lau , Rainer Lee , Calvin Pei Yu Wong , Kuan Eng Johnson Goh

Atomically thin semiconductor heterostructures provide a two-dimensional (2D) device platform for creating high densities of cold, controllable excitons. Interlayer excitons (IEs), bound electrons and holes localized to separate 2D quantum…

Due to a strong Coulomb interaction, excitons dominate the excitation kinetics in 2D materials. While Coulomb-scattering between electrons has been well studied, the interaction of excitons is more challenging and remains to be explored. As…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Daniel Erkensten , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Moir\'e superlattices in atomically thin van-der-Waals heterostructures hold great promise for an extended control of electronic and valleytronic lifetimes, the confinement of excitons in artificial moir\'e lattices, and the formation of…

Excitons in van der Waals heterostructures based on atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides are considered as potential candidates for the formation of a superfluid state in two-dimensional systems. A number of studies reported…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 M. M. Glazov , R. A. Suris