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Identifying materials hosting an excitonic insulator ground state has been one of the major pursuits in condensed matter physics in recent years. Promising candidates in transition metal chalcogenide compounds (TMC), including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Yao Zeng , Shi-Cong Mo , Wéi Wú

The ability in experiments to control the relative twist angle between successive layers in two-dimensional (2D) materials offers a new approach to manipulating their electronic properties; we refer to this approach as "twistronics". A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Stephen Carr , Daniel Massatt , Shiang Fang , Paul Cazeaux , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

While exciton relaxation in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) has been intensively studied, spatial exciton propagation has received only little attention - in spite of being a key process for optoelectronics and having already shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Roberto Rosati , Raül Perea-Causín , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

We propose a scheme for the spatial exciton energy control and exciton routing in a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayer which lies on a quantum paraelectric substrate. It relies on the ultrasensitive response of the substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 V. Shahnazaryan , O. Kyriienko , H. Rostami

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the first truly two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor, providing an excellent platform to investigate light-matter interaction in the 2D limit. Apart from fundamental scientific…

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer tunable optical and electronic properties, making them highly promising for next-generation optoelectronic devices. One effective approach to engineering these properties is…

The optical spectra of two dimensional (2D) materials exhibit sharp absorption peaks that are commonly identified with exciton and trions (or charged excitons). In this paper, we show that excitons and trions in doped 2D materials can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Farhan Rana , Okan Koksal , Christina Manolatou

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a remarkable exciton physics including optically accessible (bright) as well as spin- and momentum-forbidden (dark) excitonic states. So far the dark exciton landscape has not been revealed…

The strong excitonic effect in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors has enabled many fascinating light-matter interaction phenomena. Examples include strongly coupled exciton-polaritons and nearly perfect atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Hongchao Xie , Shengwei Jiang , Daniel A. Rhodes , James C. Hone , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

The geometry and binding energy of excitons, set by electron-hole wavefunction distributions, are fundamental factors that underpin their many-body interactions and determine optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. However, in typical…

The nature of trions and their interaction with light has remained a puzzle. The composition and dispersion of polaritons involving trions provide insights into this puzzle. Trions and excitons in doped two-dimensional (2D) materials are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Okan Koksal , Minwoo Jung , Christina Manolatou , A. Nick Vamivakas , Gennady Shvets , Farhan Rana

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayer has recently emerged as an important two-dimensional semiconductor with promising potentials for electronic and optoelectronic devices. Unlike semi-metallic graphene, layered TMDC has a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Ziliang Ye , Ting Cao , Kevin O'Brien , Hanyu Zhu , Xiaobo Yin , Yuan Wang , Steven G. Louie , Xiang Zhang

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

The ability to extract materials just a few atoms thick has led to discovery of graphene, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and other important two-dimensional materials. The next step in promoting understanding and utility…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Battulga Munkhbat , Andrew B. Yankovich , Ruggero Verre , Eva Olsson , Timur O. Shegai

Electrochemical gating has been demonstrated as a powerful tool to tune the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, leading to lots of fascinating quantum phenomena. However, the reported liquid-nature electrolytes (e.g,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Xin Hu , Shou-Xin Zhao , Yang Li , Zhao-Yuan Sun , Liang Zhen , Cheng-Yan Xu

We studied the exciton properties in double layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with a dielectric spacer between the layers. We developed a method based on an expansion of Chebyshev polynomials to solve the Wannier equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Luiz G. M. Tenório , Teldo A. S. Pereira , K. Mohseni , T. Frederico , M. R. Hadizadeh , Diego R. da Costa , André J. Chaves

Excitons with binding energies of a few hundreds of meV control the optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Knowledge of the fine structure of these excitons is therefore essential to understand the optoelectronic…

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

We study theoretically the Coulomb interaction between excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers. We calculate direct and exchange interaction for both ground and excited states of excitons. The screening of the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 V. Shahnazaryan , I. Iorsh , I. A. Shelykh , O. Kyriienko

Transition-metal dichalcogenide heterostructures exhibit moir\'e patterns that spatially modulate the electronic structure across the material's plane. For certain material pairs, this modulation acts as a potential landscape with deep,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Isaac Soltero , Francisco Mireles