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This theoretical paper offers an explicit expression for the binding energy of excitons in a two-dimensional semiconductor with a flat valence band. The formula has been derived quasiclassically assuming that the exciton is tightly bound;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Maxim Trushin

Strain in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) has led to localized states with exciting optical properties, in particular in view of designing one photon sources. The naturally formed of the MoS2 monolayer deposed on…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-17 Adlen Smiri , Thierry Amand , Sihem Jaziri

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

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

Excitons -- elementary excitations formed by bound electron-hole pairs -- govern the optical properties and excited-state dynamics of materials. In two-dimensions (2D), excitons are theoretically predicted to have a linear energy-momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-14 Luna Y. Liu , Steffi Y. Woo , Jinyuan Wu , Bowen Hou , Cong Su , Diana Y. Qiu

We investigate the confinement of neutral excitons in a one-dimensional (1D) potential, engineered by proximizing hBN-encapsulated monolayer MoSe$_2$ to ferroelectric domain walls (DW) in periodically poled LiNbO$_3$. Our device exploits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Pedro Soubelet , Yao Tong , Asier Astaburuaga Hernandez , Peirui Ji , Katia Gallo , Andreas V. Stier , Jonathan J. Finley

The optical properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) feature prominent excitonic natures. Here we report an experimental approach toward measuring the exciton binding energy of monolayer WS2 with linear differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-27 Bairen Zhu , Xi Chen , Xiaodong Cui

Excitons are electron-hole pairs appearing below the band gap in insulators and semiconductors. They are vital to photovoltaics, but are hard to obtain with time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT), since most standard…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-22 Zeng-hui Yang , Carsten A. Ullrich

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…

The attraction between electrons and holes in semiconductors forms excitons, which largely determine the optical properties of the hosting material, and hence the device performance, especially for low-dimensional systems. Mono- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Guowei Zhang , Andrey Chaves , Shenyang Huang , Fanjie Wang , Qiaoxia Xing , Tony Low , Hugen Yan

The physics of excitons, electron-hole pairs that are bound together by their mutual Coulomb attraction, can to great extent be understood in the framework of the quantum-mechanical hydrogen model. This model has recently been challenged by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Maxim Trushin , Mark Oliver Goerbig , Wolfgang Belzig

Substrates have strong effects on optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, which have emerged as promising platforms for exotic physical phenomena and outstanding applications. To reliably interpret experimental results…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-26 Chunhao Guo , Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping

We re-examine the results of A. Thilagam [Phys. Rev. B 55, 7804 (1997)], who calculated the ratio of the binding energies of the two dimensional exciton complexes. We point out that, for charged biexciton complexes, this calculation is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Varga

Strong exciton-plasmon interaction between the layered two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors and gap plasmons shows a great potential to implement cavity quantum-electrodynamics in ambient condition. However, achieving a robust…

Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides are direct gap semiconductors with great promise for optoelectronic devices. Although spatial correlation of electrons and holes plays a key role, there is little experimental information on such…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 A. T. Hanbicki , M. Currie , G. Kioseoglou , A. L. Friedman , B. T. Jonker

We have revisited Cooper's one pair problem of calculating the binding energy for two electrons, experiencing an attractive interaction near the Fermi surface, in case of quasi one dimensional lattice system. Though it is a generalized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-08 Soumi Roy Chowdhury , Ranjan Chaudhury

High energy (C, D) excitons possess remarkable influence over the optical properties of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and comprehensive understanding of these may have revolutionary effect on 2D opto-electronic devices.…

A comprehensive study of excitonic properties of 2D layered perovskites is provided, with an emphasis on understanding and controlling the exciton fine structure. First, an overview of the optical properties is presented, discussing the…

Two-dimensional (2D) perovskite materials have recently re-attracted intense research interest for applications in photovoltaics and optoelectronics. As a consequence of the dielectric and quantum confinement effect, they show strongly…

Screening due to surrounding dielectric medium reshapes the electron-hole interaction potential and plays a pivotal role in deciding the binding energies of strongly bound exciton complexes in quantum confined monolayers of transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Garima Gupta , Sangeeth Kallatt , Kausik Majumdar