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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…

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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…

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Semiconductor heterostructures are backbones for solid state based optoelectronic devices. Recent advances in assembly techniques for van der Waals heterostructures has enabled the band engineering of semiconductor heterojunctions for…

Atomically thin layered two dimensional (2D) material has provided a rich library for both fundamental research and device applications. One of the special advantages is that, bandgap engineering and controlled material response can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Yuanda Liu , Hanlin Fang , Abdullah Rasmita , Yu Zhou , Juntao Li , Ting Yu , Qihua Xiong , Nikolay Zheludev , Jin Liu , Weibo Gao

Layered two-dimensional materials exhibit rich transport and optical phenomena in twisted or lattice-incommensurate heterostructures with spatial variations of interlayer hybridization arising from moir\'e interference effects. Here, we…

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) became one of the most studied nanostructures in the last decade. Combining two different TMDC monolayers results in a heterostructure whose properties can be individually tuned by the…

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Interlayer excitons (IXs) in hetero-bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) represent an exciting emergent class of long-lived dipolar composite bosons in an atomically thin, near-ideal two-dimensional (2D) system. The…

Vertical heterostructures (HS) of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host interlayer excitons (ILX), with electrons and holes residing in different layers. With respect to their intralayer counterparts, ILX feature much longer…

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures have unique properties that depend on the twisting angle and stacking order of two or more monolayers. However, their practical applications are limited by the low photoluminescence…

Excitons in monolayer semiconductors have large optical transition dipole for strong coupling with light field. Interlayer excitons in heterobilayers, with layer separation of electron and hole components, feature large electric dipole that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Wei-Ting Hsu , Bo-Han Lin , Li-Syuan Lu , Ming-Hao Lee , Ming-Wen Chu , Lain-Jong Li , Wang Yao , Wen-Hao Chang , Chih-Kang Shih

MoSe2-WSe2 heterostructures host strongly bound interlayer excitons (IXs) which exhibit bright photoluminescence (PL) when the twist-angle is near 0{\deg} or 60{\deg}. Over the past several years, there have been numerous reports on the…

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…

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

The atomic-level vdW heterostructures have been one of the most interesting quantum material systems, due to their exotic physical properties. The interlayer coupling in these systems plays a critical role to realize novel physical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-16 Xiaoli Ma , Shaohua Fu , Jianwei Ding , Meng Liu , Ang Bian , Fang Hong , Jia-Tao Sun , Xiaoxian Zhang , Xiaohui Yu , Dawei He

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

The formation of interfacial moir\'e patterns from angular and/or lattice mismatch has become a powerful approach to engineer a range of quantum phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures. For long-lived and valley-polarized interlayer…

Control of excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and their heterostructures is fundamentally interesting for tailoring light-matter interactions and exploring their potential applications in high-efficiency optoelectronic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Mahfujur Rahaman , Gwangwoo Kim , Kyung Yeol Ma , Seunguk Song , Hyeon Suk Shin , Deep Jariwala

We report robust room temperature interlayer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures engineered via precise stacking orientation and twist-angle control. We integrate 2H-stacked…

Semiconductor heterostructures provide a powerful platform for the engineering of excitons. Here we report the excitonic properties of two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures that consist of monolayer MoS2 and WS2 stacked epitaxially or…

Optical properties of heterostructures composed of layered 2D materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and graphene, are broadly explored. Of particular interest are light-induced energy transfer mechanisms in these…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-17 Amir Kleiner , Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez , Sivan Refaely-Abramson