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We study interlayer excitons in MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayers, by combining lateral force microscopy and micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy. This allows us to correlate the spatial profile of the moir\'e superlattice with the distribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 L. Caussou , H. Moutaabbid , M. Bernard , F. Margaillan , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , C. Lagoin , F. Dubin , V. Voliotis

Moire superlattices in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures could trap strongly bonded and long lived interlayer excitons. Assumed to be localized, these moire excitons could form ordered quantum dot arrays, paving the way for novel…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Hongli Guo , Xu Zhang , Gang Lu

We study experimentally and theoretically the hybridization among intralayer and interlayer moir\'e excitons in a MoSe$_2$/WS$_2$ heterostructure with antiparallel alignment. Using a dual-gate device and cryogenic white light reflectance…

Moir\'e superlattices formed by transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterobilayers provide a versatile platform for studying strongly correlated electronic, excitonic, and topological phenomena in solids. In particular, angle-aligned…

The giant exciton binding energy and the richness of degrees of freedom make monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide an unprecedented playground for exploring exciton physics in 2D systems. Thanks to the well energetically separated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Bairen Zhu , Ke Xiao , Siyuan Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaodong Cui

In heterostructures consisting of different transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers, a staggered band alignment can occur, leading to rapid charge separation of optically generated electron-hole pairs into opposite monolayers. These…

The fundamental properties of an exciton are determined by the spin, valley, energy, and spatial wavefunctions of the Coulomb bound electron and hole. In van der Waals materials, these attributes can be widely engineered through layer…

This letter reports a time resolved pump-probe reflectance spectroscopic study on moir\'e excitons in a twisted monolayer WS2/WSe2 heterostructure. By probing at the resonant energies of intralayer excitons, we observed their distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Feng Kai , Xiong Wang , Yiqin Xie , Yuhui Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Cui

Excitons in the weakly interacting regime can be well-described by many-body perturbation theories such as the Bethe-Salpeter equation formalism. However, for materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides moir\'e heterostructures under…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Fangzhou Zhao , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Angel Rubio , Vojtěch Vlček

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) present an intriguing platform for exploring excitons and their transport properties. By introducing a twist angle, a moir\'e superlattice forms, providing a spatially dependent exciton energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Willy Knorr , Samuel Brem , Giuseppe Meneghini , Ermin Malic

Interlayer excitons (ILXs) - electron-hole pairs bound across two atomically thin layered semiconductors - have emerged as attractive platforms to study exciton condensation, single-photon emission and other quantum-information…

Moir\'e superlattices created by stacking atomic layers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have emerged as a class of fascinating artificial photonic and electronic materials. An appealing attribute of these structures is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yueh-Chun Wu , Matthew DeCapua , ZhongChen Xu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , YouGuo Shi , Jun Yan

We investigate the ground state of a balanced electron-hole system in the quantum Hall regime using mean-field theory and obtain a rich phase diagram as a function of interlayer distance d and the filling factor within a layer. We identify…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 C. -H. Zhang , Yogesh N. Joglekar

The quest for platforms to generate and control exotic excitonic states has greatly benefited from the advent of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and their heterostructures. Among the unconventional excitonic states,…

We explore the phase diagram of a twisted bilayer of strongly interacting electrons on a honeycomb lattice close to half-filling using the slave boson mean-field theory. Our analysis indicates that a variety of new phases can be realized as…

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The large surface-to-volume ratio in atomically thin 2D materials allows to efficiently tune their properties through modifications of their environment. Artificial stacking of two monolayers into a bilayer leads to an overlap of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Samuel Brem , Kai-Qiang Lin , Roland Gillen , Jonas M. Bauer , Janina Maultzsch , John M. Lupton , Ermin Malic

Atomically thin two-dimensional crystals have revolutionized materials science. In particular, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides promise novel optoelectronic applications, due to their direct energy gaps in the optical range. Their…

Transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers offer attractive opportunities to realize lattices of interacting bosons with several degrees of freedom. Such heterobilayers can feature moir\'e patterns that modulate their electronic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 Mauro Brotons-Gisbert , Hyeonjun Baek , Aidan Campbell , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Brian D. Gerardot

We have experimentally determined the energies of the ground and first four excited excitonic states of the fundamental optical transition in monolayer WS2, a model system for the growing class of atomically thin two-dimensional…

The behavior of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in extreme coupling limits are reasonably well-understood, but our understanding of intermediate region remains limited. Strongly interacting electrons crystalize into a solid phase known…