Anisotropic moiré optical transitions in twisted monolayer/bilayer phosphorene heterostructures

Zhao, Shilong; Wang, Erqing; Üzer, Ebru Alime; Guo, Shuaifei; Qi, Ruishi; Tan, Junyang; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Nilges, Tom; Gao, Peng; Zhang, Yuanbo; Cheng, Hui-Ming; Liu, Bilu; Zou, Xiaolong; Wang, Feng

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24272-9

Anisotropic moiré optical transitions in twisted monolayer/bilayer phosphorene heterostructures

Journal Article · Thu Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24272-9· OSTI ID:1815927

^[1]; Wang, Erqing ^[2]; Üzer, Ebru Alime ^[3]; Guo, Shuaifei ^[4]; Qi, Ruishi ^[5]; Tan, Junyang ^[2]; ^[6]; ^[6]; Nilges, Tom ^[3]; ^[7]; Zhang, Yuanbo ^[4]; ^[2]; ^[2]; ^[2]; ^[8]

Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Inst.; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; OSTI
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Inst.
Technische Univ. Muenchen, Garching (Germany). Dept. of Chemistry
Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China). Dept. of Physics. State Key Lab. of Surface Physics
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Peking Univ., Beijing (China). International Center for Quantum Materials. School of Physics. Electron Microscopy Lab.
National Inst. for Materials Science, Tsukuba (Japan)
Peking Univ., Beijing (China). International Center for Quantum Materials. School of Physics. Electron Microscopy Lab.; Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Kavli Energy NanoSciences Inst.

Moiré superlattices of van der Waals heterostructures provide a powerful way to engineer electronic structures of two-dimensional materials. Many novel quantum phenomena have emerged in graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide moiré systems. Twisted phosphorene offers another attractive system to explore moiré physics because phosphorene features an anisotropic rectangular lattice, different from isotropic hexagonal lattices previously reported. Here we report emerging anisotropic moiré optical transitions in twisted monolayer/bilayer phosphorenes. The optical resonances in phosphorene moiré superlattice depend sensitively on twist angle and are completely different from those in the constitute monolayer and bilayer phosphorene even for a twist angle as large as 19°. Our calculations reveal that the Γ-point direct bandgap and the rectangular lattice of phosphorene give rise to the remarkably strong moiré physics in large-twist-angle phosphorene heterostructures. This work highlights fresh opportunities to explore moiré physics in phosphorene and other van der Waals heterostructures with different lattice configurations.

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Sponsoring Organization:: Bureau of Industry and Information Technology of Shenzhen; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program; National Key R&D Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission; Shenzhen Basic Research Projects; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1815927

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 12; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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