Indirect excitons in van der Waals heterostructures at room temperature
Abstract
Indirect excitons (IXs) are explored both for studying quantum Bose gases in semiconductor materials and for the development of excitonic devices. IXs were extensively studied in III–V and II–VI semiconductor heterostructures where IX range of existence has been limited to low temperatures. Here, we present the observation of IXs at room temperature in van der Waals transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures. Here, this is achieved in TMD heterostructures based on monolayers of MoS2 separated by atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride. The IXs we realize in the TMD heterostructure have lifetimes orders of magnitude longer than lifetimes of direct excitons in single-layer TMD and their energy is gate controlled. The realization of IXs at room temperature establishes the TMD heterostructures as a material platform both for a field of high-temperature quantum Bose gases of IXs and for a field of high-temperature excitonic devices.
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[2];
- Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Manchester, Manchester (United Kingdom)
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- Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1499677
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER46449
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
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Calman, E. V., Fogler, M. M., Butov, L. V., Hu, S., Mishchenko, A., and Geim, A. K. Indirect excitons in van der Waals heterostructures at room temperature. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04293-7.
Calman, E. V., Fogler, M. M., Butov, L. V., Hu, S., Mishchenko, A., & Geim, A. K. Indirect excitons in van der Waals heterostructures at room temperature. United States. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04293-7.
Calman, E. V., Fogler, M. M., Butov, L. V., Hu, S., Mishchenko, A., and Geim, A. K. Mon .
"Indirect excitons in van der Waals heterostructures at room temperature". United States. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04293-7. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1499677.
@article{osti_1499677,
title = {Indirect excitons in van der Waals heterostructures at room temperature},
author = {Calman, E. V. and Fogler, M. M. and Butov, L. V. and Hu, S. and Mishchenko, A. and Geim, A. K.},
abstractNote = {Indirect excitons (IXs) are explored both for studying quantum Bose gases in semiconductor materials and for the development of excitonic devices. IXs were extensively studied in III–V and II–VI semiconductor heterostructures where IX range of existence has been limited to low temperatures. Here, we present the observation of IXs at room temperature in van der Waals transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures. Here, this is achieved in TMD heterostructures based on monolayers of MoS2 separated by atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride. The IXs we realize in the TMD heterostructure have lifetimes orders of magnitude longer than lifetimes of direct excitons in single-layer TMD and their energy is gate controlled. The realization of IXs at room temperature establishes the TMD heterostructures as a material platform both for a field of high-temperature quantum Bose gases of IXs and for a field of high-temperature excitonic devices.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-04293-7},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {5}
}
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Fig. 1 : MoS2/hBN coupled quantum well heterostructure. The coupled quantum well van der Waals heterostructure layer (a) and energy-band (b) diagrams. The ovals indicate a direct exciton (DX) and an indirect exciton (IX) composed of an electron (−) and a hole (+). (c) Microscope image showing the layer patternmore »
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