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We measure the coherent nonlinear response of excitons in a single-layer of molybdenum disulphide embedded in hexagonal boron nitride, forming a $h$-BN/MoS$_2$/$h$-BN heterostructure. Using four-wave mixing microscopy and imaging, we…

Moir\'e materials offer a versatile platform for engineering excitons with unprecedented control, promising next-generation optoelectronic applications. While continuum models are widely used to study moir\'e excitons due to their…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-08 Indrajit Maity , Johannes Lischner , Arash A. Mostofi , Ángel Rubio

Strong Coulomb interactions can drive electrons to crystallize into a Wigner lattice. Achieving the bosonic analogue - a crystal of excitons - has remained elusive due to their short lifetimes and weaker interactions. Here, we report the…

Twisted two-dimensional semiconductors generate a moir\'e landscape that confines excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) into programmable lattices, offering routes to efficient light sources, sensing, and room-temperature information…

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising building blocks for the realization of integrated quantum photonic systems. However, their spectral inhomogeneity currently limits their potential applications. Here, we apply…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-13 Noah Mendelson , Marcus Doherty , Milos Toth , Igor Aharonovich , Toan Trong Tran

We study a mechanism to induce superconductivity in atomically thin semiconductors where excitons mediate an effective attraction between electrons. Our model includes interaction effects beyond the paradigm of phonon-mediated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Jonas von Milczewski , Xin Chen , Atac Imamoglu , Richard Schmidt

Nanoscale control and observation of photophysical processes in semiconductors is critical for basic understanding and applications from optoelectronics to quantum information processing. In particular, there are open questions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Hyowon Moon , Lukas Mennel , Chitraleema Chakraborty , Cheng Peng , Jawaher Almutlaq , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Dirk Englund

Monolayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are a strongly emergent platform for exploring quantum phenomena in condensed matter, building novel opto-electronic devices with enhanced functionalities. Due to their atomic…

Excitons -- bound electron-hole pairs -- play a central role in light-matter interaction phenomena, and are crucial for wide-ranging applications from light harvesting and generation to quantum information processing. A long-standing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Jenny Hu , Etienne Lorchat , Xueqi Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tony F. Heinz , Puneet A. Murthy , Thibault Chervy

Two-dimensional semiconducting systems, such as quantum wells and transition metal dichalcogenides, are the foundations to investigate low dimensional light-matter interactions. To date, the study of elementary photoexcitation, namely the…

In superlattices of twisted semiconductor monolayers, tunable moir\'e potentials emerge, trapping excitons into periodic arrays. In particular, spatially separated interlayer excitons are subject to a deep potential landscape and they…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

We investigate strongly asymmetric self-assembled nanostructures with one of dimensions reaching hundreds of nanometers. Close to the nanowire-like type of confinement, such objects are sometimes assigned as one-dimensional in nature. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 M. Gawełczyk , P. Wyborski , P. Podemski , J. P. Reithmaier , S. Höfling , G. Sęk

We propose and design photonic crystal cavities (PCCs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) for diverse photonic and quantum applications. Two dimensional (2D) hBN flakes contain quantum emitters which are ultra-bright and photostable at room…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Sejeong Kim , Milos Toth , Igor Aharonovich

Strong optical nonlinearities at the few-photon level are a central goal for quantum photonics, yet they remain difficult to realize in solid-state systems. In doped two-dimensional semiconductors, coupling between excitons and a degenerate…

We have theoretically shown that optical properties of semiconductor nanorods are controlled by 1D excitons. The theory, which takes into account anisotropy of spacial and dielectric confinement, describes size dependence of interband…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Shabaev , Al. L. Efros

Achieving localized light emission from monolayer two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) embedded in the matrix of another TMD has been theoretically proposed but not experimentally proven. In this study, we used…

Due to their low surface mass density, two-dimensional materials with a strong piezoelectric response are interesting for nanoelectromechanical systems with high force sensitivity. Unlike graphene, the two sublattices in a monolayer of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-05 Matthias Droth , Guido Burkard , Vitor M. Pereira

Coupled two-dimensional electron-hole bilayers provide a unique platform to study strongly correlated Bose-Fermi mixtures in condensed matter. Electrons and holes in spatially separated layers can bind to form interlayer excitons, composite…

Quantum mixtures of moir\'e excitons have arisen as a platform for realizing novel phases of light and matter. Here, we study moir\'e polaritons coupled to a Bose-Einstein condensate of dark-state excitons confined to a moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Moroni Santiago-García , Shunashi G. Castillo-López , David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Arturo Camacho-Guardian

We have successfully confined trions into a one-dimensional restricted space of a MoSe2 device with CNT gate electrodes. The dry transfer process, including deterministic dry transfer of aligned CNTs, has led to an hBN-encapsulated MoSe2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Takato Hotta , Haruna Nakajima , Shohei Chiashi , Taiki Inoue , Shigeo Maruyama , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ryo Kitaura