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Trions, quasi-particles consisting of two electrons combined with one hole or of two holes with one electron, have recently been observed in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and drawn increasing attention due to potential…

Manipulating quantum states through light-matter interactions has been actively pursued in two-dimensional (2D) materials research. Significant progress has been made towards the optical control of the valley degrees of freedom in…

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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…

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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

Embedding a WS$_2$ monolayer in flakes of hexagonal boron nitride allowed us to resolve and study the photoluminescence response due to both singlet and triplet states of negatively charged excitons (trions) in this atomically thin…

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In van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures formed by stacking two monolayer semiconductors, lattice mismatch or rotational misalignment introduces an in-plane moir\'e superlattice. While it is widely recognized that a moir\'e superlattice can…

Doped van der Waals heterostructures host layer-hybridized trions, i.e. charged excitons with layer-delocalized constituents holding promise for highly controllable optoelectronics. Combining a microscopic theory with photoluminescence (PL)…

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We show that ordered monolayers of organic molecules stabilized by hydrogen bonding on the surface of exfoliated few-layer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) flakes may be incorporated into van der Waals heterostructures with integral few-layer…

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…

The impressive physics and applications of intra- and interlayer excitons in a transition metal dichalcogenide twisted-bilayer make these systems compelling platforms for exploring the manipulation of their optoelectronic properties through…

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors provide a unique possibility to access the electronic valley degree of freedom using polarized light, opening the way to valley information transfer between distant…

We report an experimental study of excitons in a double quantum well van der Waals heterostructure made of atomically thin layers of \Mo* and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). The emission of neutral and charged excitons is controlled by gate…

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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.…

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Excitons in optoelectronic devices have been generated through optical excitation, external carrier injection, or employing pre-existing charges. Here, we reveal a new way to electrically generate excitons in transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Sotirios Papadopoulos , Lujun Wang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Lukas Novotny

van der Waals heterostructures consisting of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and two-dimensional (2D) magnets offer a versatile platform to study the coexistence and transformation of different excitons. By focusing on TMD WSe$_2$…

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The combination of repulsive and attractive Coulomb interactions in a quantum electron(e)-hole(h) fluid can give rise to novel correlated phases of multiparticle charge complexes such as excitons, trions and biexcitons. Here we report the…

Controlling excitons at the nanoscale in semiconductor materials represents a formidable challenge in the fields of quantum photonics and optoelectronics. Achieving this control holds great potential for unlocking strong exciton-exciton…

Fabricating van der Waals (vdW) bilayer heterostructures (BL-HS) by stacking the same or different two-dimensional (2D) layers, offers a unique physical system with rich electronic and optical properties. Twist-angle between component…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Kha Tran , Junho Choi , Akshay Singh

van der Waals heterostructures consisting of vertically stacked transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a rich landscape of bright and dark intra- and interlayer excitons. In spite of a growing literature in this field of research,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Christopher Linderälv , Paul Erhart , Ermin Malic

The control of elastic and inelastic electron tunneling relies on materials with well defined interfaces. Van der Waals materials made of two-dimensional constituents form an ideal platform for such studies. Signatures of acoustic phonons…