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We present results on the rates of interlayer energy transfer between excitons in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We consider both radiative (mediated by real photons) and non-radiative (mediated by virtual photons)…

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The trend towards ever smaller high-performance devices in modern technology requires novel materials with new functionalities. The recent emergence of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials has opened up possibilities for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Maja Feierabend , Zahra Khatibi , Gunnar Berghäuser , 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

Excitons drive the optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductors which underpin devices including solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Here we show that excitons can exhibit topologically non-trivial states protected by inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Joshua J. P. Thompson , Bartomeu Monserrat , Robert-Jan Slager

Indirect excitons (IXs), also known as interlayer excitons, can form the medium for excitonic devices whose operation is based on controlled propagation of excitons. A proof of principle for excitonic devices was demonstrated in GaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 L. H. Fowler-Gerace , D. J. Choksy , L. V. Butov

Van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides provide a unique platform to engineer optoelectronic devices tuning their optical properties via stacking, twisting, or straining. Using ab initio Many-Body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 R. Reho , A. R. Botello-Méndez , D. Sangalli , M. J. Verstraete , Zeila Zanolli

Metasurfaces enable flat optical elements by leveraging optical resonances in metallic or dielectric nanoparticles to obtain accurate control over the amplitude and phase of the scattered light. While highly efficient, these resonances are…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-07 Jason Lynch , Ludovica Guarneri , Deep Jariwala , Jorik van de Groep

We propose an optoelectronic scheme to define and manipulate an indirect neutral exciton qubit within a quantum dot molecule. We demonstrate coherent dynamics of indirect excitons resilient against decoherence effects, including direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 Juan E. Rolon , Sergio E. Ulloa

Atomically thin semiconductors provide an excellent platform to study intriguing many-particle physics of tightly-bound excitons. In particular, the properties of tungsten-based transition metal dichalcogenides are determined by a complex…

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (tTMDs) provide a highly tunable platform to explore the interplay between strong correlation and topology. Among them, the properties involving the charge degree of freedom have been extensively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-25 Wei-Tao Zhou , Zhao-Yang Dong , Zhao-Long Gu , Jian-Xin Li

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

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

Excitons in bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (2L-TMDs) are Coulomb-bound electron/hole pairs that can be viewed as broadly tunable analogs of atomic or molecular systems. Here, we study the properties of 2L-TMD excitons under strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 S. Kovalchuk , K. Greben , A. Kumar , S. Pessel , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Christiansen , M. Selig , A. Knorr , K. I. Bolotin

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

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 optoelectronic and transport properties of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors (2D TMDs) are highly susceptible to external perturbation, enabling precise tailoring of material function through post-synthetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-18 Haowen Su , Ding Xu , Shan-Wen Cheng , Baichang Li , Song Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Timothy C. Berkelbach , James Hone , Milan Delor

Defects in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) broadly affect their optical and electronic properties. Directly capturing the ultrafast processes of exciton trapping and defect-bound exciton formation is crucial for…

Over the past few decades, thin film optoelectronic devices based on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have made significant progress. However, the sensitivity of the exciton states to environmental change presents challenges for…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-13 Shuangping Han , Pengyu Zan , Yu Yan , Yaoxing Bian , Chengbing Qin , Liantuan Xiao

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) feature exceptional optical properties that are dominated by excitons, tightly bound electron-hole pairs. Forming van der Waals heterostructures by deterministically stacking individual…

The additional layer degree of freedom in trilayer moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenides enables the emergence of novel excitonic species, such as quadrupolar excitons, which exhibit unique excitonic interactions and…