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Narrow lines in photoluminescence (PL) spectra of excitons are characteristic of low-dimensional semiconductors. These lines correspond to the emission of exciton states in local minima of a potential energy landscape formed by fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Zhiwen Zhou , E. A. Szwed , W. J. Brunner , H. Henstridge , L. H. Fowler-Gerace , L. V. Butov

We investigate the photoluminescence of interlayer excitons in heterostructures consisting of monolayer MoSe2 and WSe2 at low temperatures. Surprisingly, we find a doublet structure for such interlayer excitons. Both peaks exhibit long…

Indirect excitons (IX) in semiconductor heterostructures are bosons, which can cool below the temperature of quantum degeneracy and can be effectively controlled by voltage and light. IX quantum Bose gases and IX devices were explored in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 E. V. Calman , L. H. Fowler-Gerace , L. V. Butov , D. E. Nikonov , I. A. Young , S. Hu , A. Mischenko , A. K. Geim

Long lifetimes of spatially indirect excitons (IXs), also known as interlayer excitons, make possible long-range IX propagation. Van der Waals heterostructures composed of atomically thin layers of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 L. H. Fowler-Gerace , Zhiwen Zhou , E. A. Szwed , L. V. Butov

Indirect excitons (IXs) in van der Waals transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures are characterized by a high binding energy making them stable at room temperature and giving the opportunity for exploring fundamental phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 E. V. Calman , M. M. Fogler , L. V. Butov , S. Hu , A. Mishchenko , A. K. Geim

Long lifetimes of spatially indirect excitons (IXs), also known as interlayer excitons, allow implementing both quantum exciton systems and long-range exciton transport. Van der Waals heterostructures (HS) composed of atomically thin layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 L. H. Fowler-Gerace , Zhiwen Zhou , E. A. Szwed , D. J. Choksy , L. V. Butov

Exciton transport is fundamental for understanding transport phenomena in bosonic systems and for exploring excitation energy transfer in materials. Spatially indirect excitons (IXs) are composed of electrons and holes in separated layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zhiwen Zhou , W. J. Brunner , E. A. Szwed , H. Henstridge , L. H. Fowler-Gerace , L. V. Butov

An emerging class of semiconductor heterostructures involves stacking discrete monolayers such as the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) to form van der Waals heterostructures. In these structures, it is possible to create interlayer…

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

Stacking atomic monolayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) has emerged as an effective way to engineer their properties. In principle, the staggered band alignment of TMD heterostructures should result in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 M. Baranowski , A. Surrente , L. Klopotowski , J. M. Urban , N. Zhang , D. K. Maude , K. Wiwatowski , S. Mackowski , Y. C. Kung , D. Dumcenco , A. Kis , P. Plochocka

Ensembles of indirect or interlayer excitons (IXs) are intriguing systems to explore classical and quantum phases of interacting bosonic ensembles. IXs are composite bosons that feature enlarged lifetimes due to the reduced overlap of the…

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…

Exciton binding energies of hundreds of meV and strong light absorption in the optical frequency range make transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) promising for novel optoelectronic nanodevices. In particular, atomically thin TMDs can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Simon Ovesen , Samuel Brem , Christopher Linderälv , Mikael Kuisma , Paul Erhart , Malte Selig , Ermin Malic

In van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures formed by stacking two monolayer semiconductors, lattice mismatch or rotational misalignment introduces an in-plane moir\'e superlattice. While it is widely recognized that a moir\'e superlattice can…

Transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures can host interlayer excitons (IXs), which consist of electrons and holes spatially separated in different layers. IXs possess permanent dipoles and have proven to offer a wealth of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-24 Darien J. Morrow , Xuedan Ma

Spatially periodic structures with a long range period, referred to as moir\'e pattern, can be obtained in van der Waals bilayers in the presence of a small stacking angle or of lattice mismatch between the monolayers. Theoretical…

van der Waals heterostructures consisting of vertically stacked transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a rich landscape of bright and dark intra- and interlayer excitons. In spite of a growing literature in this field of research,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Christopher Linderälv , Paul Erhart , Ermin Malic

We present time-resolved and CW optical spectroscopy studies of interlayer excitons (IXs) in 2$H-$ and 3$R-$stacked MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterobilayers and obtain evidence for the strong participation of hot phonons in the underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Pedro Soubelet , Alex Delhomme , Andreas V. Stier , Jonathan J. Finley

Controlling the flow of charge neutral interlayer exciton (IX) quasiparticles can potentially lead to low loss excitonic circuits. Here, we report unidirectional transport of IXs along nanoscale electrostatically defined channels in an…

Novel excitonic phenomena emerging in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures belong to the most exciting topics in contemporary physics of van der Waals materials. Interlayer excitons (IXs) stand out among those due to…

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