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Moir\'e superlattices formed in van der Waals bilayers have enabled the creation and manipulation of new quantum states, as is exemplified by the discovery of superconducting and correlated insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene near…

The optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers are widely dominated by excitons, Coulomb-bound electron-hole pairs. These quasi-particles exhibit giant oscillator strength and give rise to narrow-band, well-pronounced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Christian Schneider , Mikhail M. Glazov , Tobias Korn , Sven Höfling , Bernhard Urbaszek

Valley selective hybridization and residual coupling of electronic states in commensurate van der Waals heterobilayers enable the control of the orbital character of interlayer excitons. We demonstrate electric field control of layer index,…

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

A GW calculation based on a truncated Coulomb interaction with an added small q limit was applied to 2D van der Waals heterolayered structures, and the Kane dispersion model was used to determine the accurate band gap edge. All ab initio…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-25 Eyasu Tadesse Muda , Tewodros Eyob Ada , Kenate Nemera Nigussa , Cecil N. M. Ouma

Excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors provide a novel platform for fundamental studies of many-body interactions. In particular, dipolar interactions between spatially indirect excitons may give rise to strongly correlated phases of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Rafał Ołdziejewski , Alessio Chiocchetta , Johannes Knörzer , Richard Schmidt

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are layered materials that have a semiconducting phase with many advantageous optoelectronic properties, including tightly bound excitons and spin-valley locking. In Tungsten-based TMDs, spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Saroj B. Chand , John M. Woods , Enrique Mejia , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Gabriele Grosso

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) became one of the most studied nanostructures in the last decade. Combining two different TMDC monolayers results in a heterostructure whose properties can be individually tuned by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Marten Richter

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…

The existence of strongly bound excitons is one of the hallmarks of the newly discovered atomically thin semi-conductors. While it is understood that the large binding energy is mainly due to the weak dielectric screening in two dimensions…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Simone Latini , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

Two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors provide a unique materials platform in which long-range magnetic order coexists with strongly bound excitons. Because excitonic states and magnetic moments originate from the same electronic orbitals…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit remarkable optical properties due to the diverse number of strongly bound excitons, which can be fine-tuned by alloying. Despite a flurry of research activity in characterizing these excitons,…

Moir\'e effects in twisted or lattice-incommensurate vertical assemblies of two-dimensional crystals give rise to a new class of quantum materials with rich transport and optical phenomena, including correlated electron physics in flat…

We report robust room temperature interlayer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures engineered via precise stacking orientation and twist-angle control. We integrate 2H-stacked…

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

When monolayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are stacked into van der Waals structures, interlayer electronic coupling can introduce entirely new properties, as exemplified by recent discoveries of moir\'e bands that host highly…

Semiconductor heterostructures form the cornerstone of many electronic and optoelectronic devices and are traditionally fabricated using epitaxial growth techniques. More recently, heterostructures have also been obtained by vertical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Marco M. Furchi , Andreas Pospischil , Florian Libisch , Joachim Burgdörfer , Thomas Mueller

The two-dimensional character and reduced screening in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) lead to the ubiquitous formation of robust excitons with binding energies orders of magnitude larger than in bulk semiconductors.…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-26 Benedikt Scharf , Gaofeng Xu , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić

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…

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been established in the last years as promising materials for novel optoelectronic devices. However, the performance of such devices is often limited by the dissociation of tightly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Raul Perea-Causin , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic