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The creation of moir\'e patterns in crystalline solids is a powerful approach to manipulate their electronic properties, which are fundamentally influenced by periodic potential landscapes. In 2D materials, a moir\'e pattern with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Kyle L. Seyler , Pasqual Rivera , Hongyi Yu , Nathan P. Wilson , Essance L. Ray , David Mandrus , Jiaqiang Yan , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu

Moir\'e superlattices of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host strongly interacting Bose-Fermi mixtures in which bosonic excitons coexist with correlated electron lattices. Using ultrafast, time- and energy-resolved photoluminescence…

Excitons in van der Waals (vdW) stacking interfaces can be trapped in ordered moire potential arrays giving rise to attractive phenomenons of quantum optics and bosonic many-body effects. Compare to the prevalent transition metal…

Moir\'{e} excitons (MXs) are electron-hole pairs localised by the periodic (moir\'{e}) potential forming in two-dimensional heterostructures (HSs). MXs can be exploited, $e.g.$, for creating nanoscale-ordered quantum emitters and achieving…

Based on \emph{ab initio} theoretical calculations of the optical spectra of vertical heterostructures of MoSe$_2$ (or MoS$_2$) and WSe$_2$ sheets, we reveal two spin-orbit-split Rydberg series of excitonic states below the \textsl{A}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Roland Gillen , Janina Maultzsch

Structural engineering of van der Waals heterostructures via stacking and twisting has recently been used to create moir\'e superlattices, enabling the realization of new optical and electronic properties in solid-state systems. In…

Controlling exciton recombination in atomically thin semiconductors is central to their optoelectronic functionality, as the competition between radiative and non-radiative decay channels governs emission efficiency. Existing approaches,…

We perform a comprehensive first-principles study of the electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) trilayers via intercalating a two-dimensional (2D) monolayer (ML = BN, MoSe2, WS2, or WSe2) between MoS2 bilayer to form various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 N. Lu , H. Y. Guo , L. Wang , X. J. Wu , X. C. Zeng

The propagation of excitons in TMD monolayers has been intensively studied revealing interesting many-particle effects, such as halo formation and non-classical diffusion. Initial studies have investigated how exciton transport changes in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Willy Knorr , Samuel Brem , Giuseppe Meneghini , Ermin Malic

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

Neutral and charged excitons (trions) in atomically-thin materials offer important capabilities for photonics, from ultrafast photodetectors to highly-efficient light-emitting diodes and lasers. Recent studies of van der Waals (vdW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Jaydeep Joshi , Tong Zhou , Sergiy Krylyuk , Albert V. Davydov , Igor Zutic , Patrick M. Vora

Twisted atomically thin semiconductors are characterized by moir\'{e} excitons. Their optical signatures and selection rules are well understood. However, their hybridization with photons in the strong coupling regime for heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jamie M. Fitzgerald , Joshua J. P. Thompson , Ermin Malic

Van der Waals (vdW) homo-/hetero-structures are ideal systems for studying interfacial tribological properties such as structural superlubricity. Previous studies concentrated on the mechanism of translational motion in vdW interfaces.…

Moir\'e structures in van der Waals heterostructures lead to emergent phenomena including superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene and optically accessible strongly-correlated electron states in transition metal dichalcogenide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Liam P. McDonnell , Jacob J. S. Viner , Pasqual Rivera , Antonio Cammarata , Huseyin S. Sen , Xiaodong Xu , David C. Smith

The ability to assemble layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials to form permutations of van der Waals heterostructures provides significant opportunities in materials design and synthesis. Interlayer interactions provide a path to new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-09 Zachariah Hennighausen , Jisoo Moon , Kathleen M. McCreary , Connie H. Li , Olaf M. J. van `t Erve , Berend T. Jonker

Strongly bound excitons and many-body interactions between them determine light-matter interactions in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures of 2D semiconductors. Unlike fundamental particles, quasiparticles in condensed matter, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Weijie Li , Zach Hadjri , Jin Zhang , Luka M. Devenica , Song Liu , James Hone , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Angel Rubio , Ajit Srivastava

The moir\'e superlattices formed by stacking 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with twisting angle or lattice mismatch have provided a versatile platform with unprecedented tunability for exploring many frontier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Dawei Zhai , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures provide a tunable platform to study emergent properties that are absent in the natural crystal form. Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TB-TMDs) can host moir\'e flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 En Li , Jin-Xin Hu , Xuemeng Feng , Zishu Zhou , Liheng An , Kam Tuen Law , Ning Wang , Nian Lin

Due to their unique two-dimensional nature, charge carriers in semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit strong unscreened Coulomb interactions and sensitivity to defects and impurities. The versatility of van der Waals…

Van der Waals heterostructures offer attractive opportunities to design quantum materials. For instance, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess three quantum degrees of freedom: spin, valley index, and layer index. Further, twisted…