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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 formation of interfacial moir\'e patterns from angular and/or lattice mismatch has become a powerful approach to engineer a range of quantum phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures. For long-lived and valley-polarized interlayer…

Heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unique opportunities in optoelectronics due to their strong light-matter interaction and the formation of dipolar interlayer excitons. Introducing a twist angle or lattice…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-16 Giuseppe Meneghini , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene1, boron nitride2, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)3-5, have sparked wide interest in both device physics and technological applications at the atomic monolayer limit. These 2D…

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

Localized interlayer excitons (LIXs) in two-dimensional moir\'e superlattices exhibit sharp and dense emission peaks, making them promising as highly tunable single-photon sources. However, the fundamental nature of these LIXs is still…

Moir\'e superlattices of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) enable unprecedented spatial control of electron wavefunctions in an artificial lattice with periodicities more than ten times larger than that of atomic…

Moir\'e potentials in two-dimensional materials have been proven to be of fundamental importance to fully understand the electronic structure of van der Waals heterostructures, from superconductivity to correlated excitonic states. However,…

Moir\'e superlattices created by stacking atomic layers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have emerged as a class of fascinating artificial photonic and electronic materials. An appealing attribute of these structures is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yueh-Chun Wu , Matthew DeCapua , ZhongChen Xu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , YouGuo Shi , Jun Yan

Cascade transition between energy levels has important applications, such as in quantum information protocols and quantum cascade lasers. In two-dimensional heterostructure, the moir\'e superlattice potential can result in multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Qinghai Tan , Abdullah Rasmita , Zhaowei Zhang , K. S. Novoselov , Wei-bo Gao

Moir\'e superlattices can induce correlated-electronic phases in twisted van-der-Waals materials. Strongly correlated quantum phenomena emerge, such as superconductivity and the Mott-insulating state. However, moir\'e superlattices produced…

Recent experimental progresses have demonstrated the great potential of electronic and excitonic moir\'e superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) for quantum many-body simulations and quantum optics applications. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Qingjun Tong , Mingxing Chen , Feiping Xiao , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures formed by 2D atomic crystals provide a powerful approach towards designer condensed matter systems. Incommensurate heterobilayers with small twisting and/or lattice mismatch lead to the interesting…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-11 Qingjun Tong , Hongyi Yu , Qizhong Zhu , Yong Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

Distinguished by their long lifetimes, strong dipolar interactions, and periodic confinement, moir\'e excitons provide a fertile territory for realizing interaction-driven excitonic phases beyond conventional semiconductor systems. Formed…

Long lifetimes of spatially indirect excitons (IXs), also known as interlayer excitons, allow implementing both quantum exciton systems and long-range exciton transport. Van der Waals heterostructures (HS) composed of atomically thin layers…

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Stacking atomic monolayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) has emerged as an effective way to engineer their properties. In principle, the staggered band alignment of TMD heterostructures should result in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 M. Baranowski , A. Surrente , L. Klopotowski , J. M. Urban , N. Zhang , D. K. Maude , K. Wiwatowski , S. Mackowski , Y. C. Kung , D. Dumcenco , A. Kis , P. Plochocka

We investigate the photoluminescence of interlayer excitons in heterostructures consisting of monolayer MoSe2 and WSe2 at low temperatures. Surprisingly, we find a doublet structure for such interlayer excitons. Both peaks exhibit long…

Moir\'e superlattices, engineered through precise stacking of van der Waals (vdW) layers, hold immense promise for exploring strongly correlated and topological phenomena. However, these applications have been held back by the common…

Monolayer (ML) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) integrated in optical microcavities host exciton-polaritons as a hallmark of the strong light-matter coupling regime. Analogous concepts for hybrid light-matter systems employing…