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Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are known to support complex excitonic states. Revealing the differences in relaxation dynamics among different excitonic species and elucidating the transition dynamics between them may provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Anran Wang , Yuhan Wang , Jianfei Li , Ning Xu , Songlin Li , Xinran Wang , Yi Shi , Fengqiu Wang

Integrating two-dimensional van der Waals materials with optical cavities has revealed a fascinating platform to study exciton-polariton physics. Manipulating exciton polaritons often requires external control over the electrical and…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-08 Zhi Wang , Li He , Bumho Kim , Bo Zhen

Heterostructures of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host long-lived, tunable excitons, making them intriguing candidates for material-based quantum information applications. Light absorption in these systems induces a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 Tomer Amit , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct-gap semiconductors with strong light-matter and Coulomb interaction. The latter accounts for tightly bound excitons, which dominate the optical properties of these…

Moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures give rise to rich excitonic phenomena associated with the interlayer twist angle and induced changes in the involved quantum states. Theoretical calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-13 Sudipta Kundu , Tomer Amit , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

The two-dimensional character and reduced screening in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) lead to the ubiquitous formation of robust excitons with binding energies orders of magnitude larger than in bulk semiconductors.…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-26 Benedikt Scharf , Gaofeng Xu , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić

Monolayers of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are characterized by an extraordinarily strong Coulomb interaction giving rise to tightly bound excitons with binding energies of hundreds of meV. Excitons dominate the optical response…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-30 Samuel Brem , Gunnar Berghaeuser , Malte Selig , Ermin Malic

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

We demonstrate an on demand spatial control of excitonic magnetic lattices for the potential applications of excitonic-based quantum optical devices. A two dimensional magnetic lattice of indirect excitons can form a transition to one…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-16 Ahmed M. Abdelrahman , Byoung S. Ham

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

Exciton mobility in two-dimensional semiconductors is a key ingredient in materials-based design of optoelectronic functionalities. Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) set a good test case, with tightly bound excitons and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-17 Amir Kleiner , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

Semiconducting transitional metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) moir\'e superlattice provides an exciting platform for manipulating excitons. The in-situ control of moir\'e potential confined exciton would usher in unprecedented functions of…

Several monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct band gap semiconductors and potentially efficient emitters in light emitting devices. Photons are emitted when strongly bound excitons decay radiatively, and accurate…

Charge-transfer excitons possessing long radiative lifetime and net permanent dipole moment are highly appealing for quantum dot (QD) based energy harvesting and photodetecting devices, in which the efficiency of charge separation after…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Yamei Zhou , Christos S. Garoufalis , Zaiping Zeng , Sotirios Baskoutas , Yu Jia , Zuliang Du

Strong light-matter interactions in layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) open up vivid possibilities for novel exciton-based devices. The optical properties of TMDs are dominated mostly by the tightly bound excitons and more…

Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality and crystal symmetry. The family of semiconducting…

Lateral heterostructures built of monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are characterized by a thin 1D interface exhibiting a large energy offset. Recently, the formation of spatially separated charge-transfer (CT) excitons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Roberto Rosati , Sai Shradha , Julian Picker , Andrey Turchanin , Bernhard Urbaszek , Ermin Malic

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have demonstrated significant potential as versatile quantum materials for light absorption and emission. Their unique properties are primarily governed by exciton-photon interactions, which can be…

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…

We investigate how external screening shapes excitons in two-dimensional (2d) semiconductors embedded in laterally structured dielectric environments. An atomic scale view of these elementary excitations is developed using models which…