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Photoexcited intralayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) with type-II band alignment have been observed to tunnel into interlayer excitons on ultrafast timescales. Such interlayer excitons have sufficiently long lifetimes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Høgni C. Kamban , Thomas G. Pedersen

We investigate excitons in stacked transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) layers under perpendicularly applied electric field, herein MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ van der Waals heterostructures. Band structures are obtained with density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 A. Chaves , J. G. Azadani , V. Ongun Özçelik , R. Grassi , T. Low

Hybridisation of electronic bands of two-dimensional materials, assembled into twistronic heterostructures, enables one to tune their optoelectronic properties by selecting conditions for resonant interlayer hybridisation. Resonant…

The ultrathin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as promising materials for various applications using two dimensional (2D) semiconductors. They have attracted increasing attention due to their unique optical properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 Aïda Hichri , Imen Ben Amara , Sabrine Ayari , Sihem Jaziri

Generation of photocurrents in semiconducting materials requires dissociation of excitons into free charge carriers. While thermal agitation is sufficient to induce dissociation in most bulk materials, an additional push is required to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Høgni C. Kamban , Thomas G. Pedersen

We introduce a novel two-dimensional electronic system with ultrastrong interlayer interactions, namely twisted bilayer graphene with a large twist angle, as an ideal ground for realizing interlayer-coherent excitonic condensates. In these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Dohun Kim , Byungmin Kang , Yong-Bin Choi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil-Ho Lee , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

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…

One of the most striking features of novel 2D semiconductors (e.g., transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers or phosphorene) is a strong Coulomb interaction between charge carriers resulting in large excitonic effects. In particular, this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Kirill A. Velizhanin , Avadh Saxena

We demonstrate dynamic pressure tuning (0-6.6 GPa) of layer-hybridized excitons in AB-stacked trilayer WSe$_2$ via diamond-anvil-cell-integrated reflectance spectroscopy. Pressure-controlled interlayer coupling manifests in enhanced…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-04 Xuan Zhao , Jing Song , Wenqi Xiong , Qianying Hu , Yuxuan Song , Xin He , Tianzhong Yang , Song Liu , Shengjun Yuan , Hongyi Yu , Yang Xu

Exciton condensates (EC) are macroscopic coherent states arising from condensation of electron-hole pairs. Bilayer heterostructures, consisting of two-dimensional electron and hole layers separated by a tunnel barrier, provide a versatile…

Controlling interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures holds promise for exploring Bose-Einstein condensates and developing novel optoelectronic applications, such as excitonic integrated circuits. Despite intensive studies,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Lifu Zhang , Ruihao Ni , Liuxin Gu , Ming Xie , Suji Park , Houk Jang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , You Zhou

We propose that excitons in moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers offer a promising platform for investigating collective radiative properties. While some of these optical properties resemble those of cold atom arrays, moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Tsung-Sheng Huang , Yu-Xin Wang , Yan-Qi Wang , Darrick Chang , Mohammad Hafezi , Andrey Grankin

We revisit low-temperature optical spectra of transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers and point to a possible crystallization of electrons (or holes) at low to moderate charge densities. To calculate the excitonic spectra under such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Dinh Van Tuan , Hanan Dery

In the present work, we consider the excitonic effects in the twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) within the rotated bilayer Hubbard model. Both, intralayer and interlayer Coulomb interactions have been considered and the half-filling condition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 V. Apinyan , T. K. Kopeć

Transitions metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct semiconductors in the atomic monolayer (ML) limit with fascinating optical and spin-valley properties. The strong optical absorption of up to 20 % for a single ML is governed by excitons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 B. Han , C. Robert , E. Courtade , M. Manca , S. Shree , T. Amand , P. Renucci , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , X. Marie , L. E. Golub , M. M. Glazov , B. Urbaszek

Emerging photo-induced excitonic processes in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers, e.g., coupling, dephasing, and energy transfer of intra- and inter-layer excitons, allow new opportunities for ultrathin photonic devices.…

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…

Excitons -- quasiparticles formed by the binding of an electron and a hole through electrostatic attraction -- hold promise in the fields of quantum light confinement and optoelectronic sensing. Atomically thin transition metal…

Spatially indirect excitons can be created when an electron and a hole, confined to separate layers of a double quantum well system, bind to form a composite Boson. Because there is no recombination pathway such excitons are long lived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 J. I. A. Li , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , C. R. Dean

Many-body interactions can produce novel ground states in a condensed-matter system. For example, interacting electrons and holes can spontaneously form excitons, a neutral bound state, provided that the exciton binding energy exceeds the…