Twist-angle dependence of moiré excitons in WS2/MoSe2 heterobilayers
Abstract
Moiré lattices formed in twisted van der Waals bilayers provide a unique, tunable platform to realize coupled electron or exciton lattices unavailable before. While twist angle between the bilayer has been shown to be a critical parameter in engineering the moiré potential and enabling novel phenomena in electronic moiré systems, a systematic experimental study as a function of twist angle is still missing. Here we show that not only are moiré excitons robust in bilayers of even large twist angles, but also properties of the moiré excitons are dependant on, and controllable by, the moiré reciprocal lattice period via twist-angle tuning. From the twist-angle dependence, we furthermore obtain the effective mass of the interlayer excitons and the electron inter-layer tunneling strength, which are difficult to measure experimentally otherwise. These findings pave the way for understanding and engineering rich moiré-lattice induced phenomena in angle-twisted semiconductor van der Waals heterostructures.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China)
- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
- National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba (Japan)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Army Research Office (ARO); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1817085
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0017971; W911NF-17-1-0312; DMR-1838412; FA2386-18-1-4086; JPMXP0112101001; JP20H00354; JPMJCR15F3
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Zhang, Long, Zhang, Zhe, Wu, Fengcheng, Wang, Danqing, Gogna, Rahul, Hou, Shaocong, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Kulkarni, Krishnamurthy, Kuo, Thomas, Forrest, Stephen R., and Deng, Hui. Twist-angle dependence of moiré excitons in WS2/MoSe2 heterobilayers. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19466-6.
Zhang, Long, Zhang, Zhe, Wu, Fengcheng, Wang, Danqing, Gogna, Rahul, Hou, Shaocong, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Kulkarni, Krishnamurthy, Kuo, Thomas, Forrest, Stephen R., & Deng, Hui. Twist-angle dependence of moiré excitons in WS2/MoSe2 heterobilayers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19466-6
Zhang, Long, Zhang, Zhe, Wu, Fengcheng, Wang, Danqing, Gogna, Rahul, Hou, Shaocong, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Kulkarni, Krishnamurthy, Kuo, Thomas, Forrest, Stephen R., and Deng, Hui. Wed .
"Twist-angle dependence of moiré excitons in WS2/MoSe2 heterobilayers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19466-6. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1817085.
@article{osti_1817085,
title = {Twist-angle dependence of moiré excitons in WS2/MoSe2 heterobilayers},
author = {Zhang, Long and Zhang, Zhe and Wu, Fengcheng and Wang, Danqing and Gogna, Rahul and Hou, Shaocong and Watanabe, Kenji and Taniguchi, Takashi and Kulkarni, Krishnamurthy and Kuo, Thomas and Forrest, Stephen R. and Deng, Hui},
abstractNote = {Moiré lattices formed in twisted van der Waals bilayers provide a unique, tunable platform to realize coupled electron or exciton lattices unavailable before. While twist angle between the bilayer has been shown to be a critical parameter in engineering the moiré potential and enabling novel phenomena in electronic moiré systems, a systematic experimental study as a function of twist angle is still missing. Here we show that not only are moiré excitons robust in bilayers of even large twist angles, but also properties of the moiré excitons are dependant on, and controllable by, the moiré reciprocal lattice period via twist-angle tuning. From the twist-angle dependence, we furthermore obtain the effective mass of the interlayer excitons and the electron inter-layer tunneling strength, which are difficult to measure experimentally otherwise. These findings pave the way for understanding and engineering rich moiré-lattice induced phenomena in angle-twisted semiconductor van der Waals heterostructures.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-19466-6},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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