DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers

Abstract

Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are 2D semiconductors with tightly bound excitons and correspondingly strong light–matter interactions. Owing to the weak van der Waals bonding between layers, TMDs can be isolated and stacked together to form synthetic heterostructures with emergent electronic and excitonic properties. In this Review, we focus on the emergent exciton physics in moiré superlattices and in TMD heterobilayers coupled to optical cavities, where exciton behaviour can be dramatically modified by the environment. Further, in moiré superlattices, a small twist angle or lattice mismatch between the layers introduces a periodic variation in the interlayer alignment that leads to exciton localization, modified optical selection rules and strong correlations. In cavity–heterostructure systems, light–matter interaction is enhanced and exciton states can couple to the cavity to form exciton-polaritons, whose properties depend on the specific TMD layers involved and their alignment. Here, we discuss recent theoretical and experimental progress towards realizing exotic exciton states in TMD heterobilayers and comment on future scientific and technological directions.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  3. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
  4. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE); US Army Research Office (ARO); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
2329275
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; W911NF-17-1-0312; FA2386-18-1-4086; DMR 1838412
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Reviews. Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2058-8437
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Regan, Emma C., Wang, Danqing, Paik, Eunice Y., Zeng, Yongxin, Zhang, Long, Zhu, Jihang, MacDonald, Allan H., Deng, Hui, and Wang, Feng. Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1038/s41578-022-00440-1.
Regan, Emma C., Wang, Danqing, Paik, Eunice Y., Zeng, Yongxin, Zhang, Long, Zhu, Jihang, MacDonald, Allan H., Deng, Hui, & Wang, Feng. Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-022-00440-1
Regan, Emma C., Wang, Danqing, Paik, Eunice Y., Zeng, Yongxin, Zhang, Long, Zhu, Jihang, MacDonald, Allan H., Deng, Hui, and Wang, Feng. Wed . "Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-022-00440-1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2329275.
@article{osti_2329275,
title = {Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers},
author = {Regan, Emma C. and Wang, Danqing and Paik, Eunice Y. and Zeng, Yongxin and Zhang, Long and Zhu, Jihang and MacDonald, Allan H. and Deng, Hui and Wang, Feng},
abstractNote = {Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are 2D semiconductors with tightly bound excitons and correspondingly strong light–matter interactions. Owing to the weak van der Waals bonding between layers, TMDs can be isolated and stacked together to form synthetic heterostructures with emergent electronic and excitonic properties. In this Review, we focus on the emergent exciton physics in moiré superlattices and in TMD heterobilayers coupled to optical cavities, where exciton behaviour can be dramatically modified by the environment. Further, in moiré superlattices, a small twist angle or lattice mismatch between the layers introduces a periodic variation in the interlayer alignment that leads to exciton localization, modified optical selection rules and strong correlations. In cavity–heterostructure systems, light–matter interaction is enhanced and exciton states can couple to the cavity to form exciton-polaritons, whose properties depend on the specific TMD layers involved and their alignment. Here, we discuss recent theoretical and experimental progress towards realizing exotic exciton states in TMD heterobilayers and comment on future scientific and technological directions.},
doi = {10.1038/s41578-022-00440-1},
journal = {Nature Reviews. Materials},
number = 10,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Wed May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

Works referenced in this record:

Giant Valley-Zeeman Splitting from Spin-Singlet and Spin-Triplet Interlayer Excitons in WSe 2 /MoSe 2 Heterostructure
journal, December 2019


Interlayer exciton laser of extended spatial coherence in atomically thin heterostructures
journal, November 2019


Breaking of Valley Degeneracy by Magnetic Field in Monolayer MoSe 2
journal, January 2015


Recent progress in the assembly of nanodevices and van der Waals heterostructures by deterministic placement of 2D materials
journal, January 2018

  • Frisenda, Riccardo; Navarro-Moratalla, Efrén; Gant, Patricia
  • Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 47, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1039/C7CS00556C

Hubbard Model Physics in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Moiré Bands
journal, July 2018


Diffusivity Reveals Three Distinct Phases of Interlayer Excitons in MoSe 2 / WSe 2 Heterobilayers
journal, March 2021


Visualizing electron localization of WS 2 /WSe 2 moiré superlattices in momentum space
journal, September 2021

  • Stansbury, Conrad H.; Utama, M. Iqbal Bakti; Fatuzzo, Claudia G.
  • Science Advances, Vol. 7, Issue 37
  • DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf4387

Measurement of the spin-forbidden dark excitons in MoS2 and MoSe2 monolayers
journal, August 2020


Valley-polarized exciton dynamics in a 2D semiconductor heterostructure
journal, February 2016


2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures
journal, July 2016


Anomalous Light Cones and Valley Optical Selection Rules of Interlayer Excitons in Twisted Heterobilayers
journal, October 2015


van der Waals Heterostructures with High Accuracy Rotational Alignment
journal, February 2016


Atomically Thin MoS2 A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor
journal, September 2010


Coupling Quantum Tunneling with Cavity Photons
journal, April 2012


Electrical control of neutral and charged excitons in a monolayer semiconductor
journal, February 2013

  • Ross, Jason S.; Wu, Sanfeng; Yu, Hongyi
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2498

Electric-field effects on exciton lifetimes in symmetric coupled GaAs/ Al 0.3 Ga 0.7 As double quantum wells
journal, November 1990


Interlayer Exciton Optoelectronics in a 2D Heterostructure p–n Junction
journal, January 2017


Moiré excitons: From programmable quantum emitter arrays to spin-orbit–coupled artificial lattices
journal, November 2017


Approaching the Intrinsic Limit in Transition Metal Diselenides via Point Defect Control
journal, June 2019


A sub-femtojoule electrical spin-switch based on optically trapped polariton condensates
journal, August 2016

  • Dreismann, Alexander; Ohadi, Hamid; del Valle-Inclan Redondo, Yago
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 15, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat4722

Experimental Evidence for Dark Excitons in Monolayer WSe 2
journal, December 2015


Cavity Control of Excitons in Two-Dimensional Materials
journal, May 2019


Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in an ultracold gas of atoms
journal, May 2003


Indirect Excitons and Trions in MoSe 2 /WSe 2 van der Waals Heterostructures
journal, February 2020


Interactions and Magnetotransport through Spin-Valley Coupled Landau Levels in Monolayer MoS 2
journal, December 2018


Electrically Tunable Valley Dynamics in Twisted WSe 2 / WSe 2 Bilayers
journal, May 2020


High-temperature superfluidity with indirect excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
journal, July 2014

  • Fogler, M. M.; Butov, L. V.; Novoselov, K. S.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5555

Macroscopically ordered state in an exciton system
journal, August 2002

  • Butov, L. V.; Gossard, A. C.; Chemla, D. S.
  • Nature, Vol. 418, Issue 6899
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature00943

Momentum-Resolved Observation of Exciton Formation Dynamics in Monolayer WS2
journal, June 2021


Phase transition of an exciton system in GaAs coupled quantum wells
journal, June 1990


Twist-angle-dependent interlayer exciton diffusion in WS2–WSe2 heterobilayers
journal, May 2020


Atomic reconstruction in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, May 2020


One-Dimensional Electrical Contact to a Two-Dimensional Material
journal, October 2013


Excitons in strain-induced one-dimensional moiré potentials at transition metal dichalcogenide heterojunctions
journal, July 2020


Ab initio theory of moiré superlattice bands in layered two-dimensional materials
journal, May 2014


Magneto-transport controlled by Landau polariton states
journal, December 2018

  • Paravicini-Bagliani, Gian L.; Appugliese, Felice; Richter, Eli
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 15, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41567-018-0346-y

Exciton–polaritons in van der Waals heterostructures embedded in tunable microcavities
journal, October 2015

  • Dufferwiel, S.; Schwarz, S.; Withers, F.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9579

Broken mirror symmetry in excitonic response of reconstructed domains in twisted MoSe2/MoSe2 bilayers
journal, July 2020


Tightly bound trions in monolayer MoS2
journal, December 2012

  • Mak, Kin Fai; He, Keliang; Lee, Changgu
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat3505

Twist Angle-Dependent Atomic Reconstruction and Moiré Patterns in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures
journal, March 2020

  • Rosenberger, Matthew R.; Chuang, Hsun-Jen; Phillips, Madeleine
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 14, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c00088

Electrical control of interlayer exciton dynamics in atomically thin heterostructures
journal, November 2019

  • Jauregui, Luis A.; Joe, Andrew Y.; Pistunova, Kateryna
  • Science, Vol. 366, Issue 6467
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw4194

Valley Zeeman effect in elementary optical excitations of monolayer WSe2
journal, January 2015

  • Srivastava, Ajit; Sidler, Meinrad; Allain, Adrien V.
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys3203

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons
journal, June 1962


Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons in bilayer electron systems
journal, December 2004


Polaritons in van der Waals materials
journal, October 2016


Magnetic control of valley pseudospin in monolayer WSe2
journal, January 2015

  • Aivazian, G.; Gong, Zhirui; Jones, Aaron M.
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 11, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys3201

Electrically tunable topological transport of moiré polaritons
journal, September 2020


Interlayer orientation-dependent light absorption and emission in monolayer semiconductor stacks
journal, June 2015

  • Heo, Hoseok; Sung, Ji Ho; Cha, Soonyoung
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8372

Van der Waals heterostructure polaritons with moiré-induced nonlinearity
journal, March 2021


Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Two-Dimensional Dipole Systems
journal, August 2010


Electrical tuning of optically active interlayer excitons in bilayer MoS2
journal, June 2021


Emerging Photoluminescence in Monolayer MoS2
journal, April 2010

  • Splendiani, Andrea; Sun, Liang; Zhang, Yuanbo
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 10, Issue 4, p. 1271-1275
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl903868w

Superconductivity and other collective phenomena in a hybrid Bose-Fermi mixture formed by a polariton condensate and an electron system in two dimensions
journal, February 2016


Giant Stark splitting of an exciton in bilayer MoS2
journal, August 2020

  • Leisgang, Nadine; Shree, Shivangi; Paradisanos, Ioannis
  • Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 15, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41565-020-0750-1

Boson localization and the superfluid-insulator transition
journal, July 1989

  • Fisher, Matthew P. A.; Weichman, Peter B.; Grinstein, G.
  • Physical Review B, Vol. 40, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.40.546

Polarization switching and electrical control of interlayer excitons in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures
journal, December 2018


Evidence of a gate-tunable Mott insulator in a trilayer graphene moiré superlattice
journal, January 2019


Signatures of moiré-trapped valley excitons in MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayers
journal, February 2019


Valley-dependent optoelectronics from inversion symmetry breaking
journal, June 2008


Resonantly Enhanced Tunneling in a Double Layer Quantum Hall Ferromagnet
journal, June 2000


Room-temperature valley coherence in a polaritonic system
journal, April 2019


Excitons in a reconstructed moiré potential in twisted WSe2/WSe2 homobilayers
journal, January 2021


Deep moiré potentials in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers
journal, February 2021


Electrical Reservoirs for Bilayer Excitons
journal, August 2018


Room-temperature exciton-polaritons with two-dimensional WS2
journal, September 2016

  • Flatten, L. C.; He, Z.; Coles, D. M.
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep33134

Twist-tailoring Coulomb correlations in van der Waals homobilayers
journal, May 2020


Coulomb engineering of the bandgap and excitons in two-dimensional materials
journal, May 2017

  • Raja, Archana; Chaves, Andrey; Yu, Jaeeun
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15251

Evolution of interlayer coupling in twisted molybdenum disulfide bilayers
journal, September 2014

  • Liu, Kaihui; Zhang, Liming; Cao, Ting
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5966

Stripe phases in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices
journal, March 2021


Single photon emitters in exfoliated WSe2 structures
journal, May 2015

  • Koperski, M.; Nogajewski, K.; Arora, A.
  • Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.67

Dirac cones and Dirac saddle points of bright excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, May 2014

  • Yu, Hongyi; Liu, Gui-Bin; Gong, Pu
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4876

Double Indirect Interlayer Exciton in a MoSe 2 /WSe 2 van der Waals Heterostructure
journal, April 2018

  • Hanbicki, Aubrey T.; Chuang, Hsun-Jen; Rosenberger, Matthew R.
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 12, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b01369

Theory of two-dimensional spatially indirect equilibrium exciton condensates
journal, October 2015


Controlling exciton many-body states by the electric-field effect in monolayer MoS 2
journal, April 2021


Topological Exciton Bands in Moiré Heterojunctions
journal, April 2017


Spatially indirect exciton condensate phases in double bilayer graphene
journal, January 2017


Optically active quantum dots in monolayer WSe2
journal, May 2015

  • Srivastava, Ajit; Sidler, Meinrad; Allain, Adrien V.
  • Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.60

Exciton-mediated superconductivity
journal, May 2016

  • Kavokin, Alexey; Lagoudakis, Pavlos
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 15, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat4646

Colloquium : Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, April 2018


Two-dimensional material nanophotonics
journal, November 2014


Cavity-control of interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
journal, August 2019


Mott and generalized Wigner crystal states in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices
journal, March 2020


Dilute Bose gas in two dimensions
journal, April 1988


Many-Body Complexes in 2D Semiconductors
journal, August 2018


Probing Evolution of Twist-Angle-Dependent Interlayer Excitons in MoSe 2 /WSe 2 van der Waals Heterostructures
journal, April 2017


Excitons bound by photon exchange
journal, August 2020


Highly nonlinear trion-polaritons in a monolayer semiconductor
journal, July 2020


Voltage-controlled quantum light from an atomically thin semiconductor
journal, May 2015

  • Chakraborty, Chitraleema; Kinnischtzke, Laura; Goodfellow, Kenneth M.
  • Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.79

Correlated insulating states at fractional fillings of moiré superlattices
journal, November 2020


Photonics and optoelectronics of 2D semiconductor transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, March 2016


Single quantum emitters in monolayer semiconductors
journal, May 2015

  • He, Yu-Ming; Clark, Genevieve; Schaibley, John R.
  • Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.75

Exciton band structure of monolayer MoS 2
journal, February 2015


Electrical Tuning of Nonlinearities in Exciton-Polariton Condensates
journal, July 2018


Ultrafast charge transfer in atomically thin MoS2/WS2 heterostructures
journal, August 2014

  • Hong, Xiaoping; Kim, Jonghwan; Shi, Su-Fei
  • Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 9, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.167

Moire bands in twisted double-layer graphene
journal, July 2011

  • Bistritzer, R.; MacDonald, A. H.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 108, Issue 30
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108174108

Room temperature nanocavity laser with interlayer excitons in 2D heterostructures
journal, April 2019


Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices
journal, March 2018


Electronic structures and theoretical modelling of two-dimensional group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, January 2015

  • Liu, Gui-Bin; Xiao, Di; Yao, Yugui
  • Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 44, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1039/C4CS00301B

Vanishing Hall Resistance at High Magnetic Field in a Double-Layer Two-Dimensional Electron System
journal, July 2004


Strongly correlated electrons and hybrid excitons in a moiré heterostructure
journal, April 2020


Counterflow Measurements in Strongly Correlated GaAs Hole Bilayers: Evidence for Electron-Hole Pairing
journal, July 2004


Observation of long-lived interlayer excitons in monolayer MoSe2–WSe2 heterostructures
journal, February 2015

  • Rivera, Pasqual; Schaibley, John R.; Jones, Aaron M.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7242

Ultrafast transition between exciton phases in van der Waals heterostructures
journal, April 2019


Flat bands in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, July 2020


Large effective mass and interaction-enhanced Zeeman splitting of K -valley electrons in MoSe 2
journal, May 2018


Ultrafast Charge Separation and Indirect Exciton Formation in a MoS 2 –MoSe 2 van der Waals Heterostructure
journal, November 2014

  • Ceballos, Frank; Bellus, Matthew Z.; Chiu, Hsin-Ying
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 8, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1021/nn505736z

Dark excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, January 2018


Fermi polaron-polaritons in charge-tunable atomically thin semiconductors
journal, October 2016

  • Sidler, Meinrad; Back, Patrick; Cotlet, Ovidiu
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys3949

Strong interlayer coupling in van der Waals heterostructures built from single-layer chalcogenides
journal, April 2014

  • Fang, H.; Battaglia, C.; Carraro, C.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 111, Issue 17
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405435111

Moiré excitons in MoSe2-WSe2 heterobilayers and heterotrilayers
journal, March 2021

  • Förg, Michael; Baimuratov, Anvar S.; Kruchinin, Stanislav Yu.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 12, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21822-z

Resonance Absorption by Nuclear Magnetic Moments in a Solid
journal, January 1946

  • Purcell, E. M.; Torrey, H. C.; Pound, R. V.
  • Physical Review, Vol. 69, Issue 1-2, p. 37-38
  • DOI: 10.1103/PhysRev.69.37

High-Temperature Superfluidity in Double-Bilayer Graphene
journal, April 2013


Highly energy-tunable quantum light from moiré-trapped excitons
journal, September 2020


Spin–layer locking of interlayer excitons trapped in moiré potentials
journal, May 2020

  • Brotons-Gisbert, Mauro; Baek, Hyeonjun; Molina-Sánchez, Alejandro
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 19, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41563-020-0687-7

Evidence for moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
journal, February 2019


Photonic-crystal exciton-polaritons in monolayer semiconductors
journal, February 2018


Large spin splitting in the conduction band of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers
journal, December 2013


Electrically controlled two-dimensional electron-hole fluids
journal, August 2020


Electronic structures and optical properties of realistic transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures from first principles
journal, August 2013


Probing excitonic dark states in single-layer tungsten disulphide
journal, August 2014

  • Ye, Ziliang; Cao, Ting; O’Brien, Kevin
  • Nature, Vol. 513, Issue 7517
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature13734

Electrical Tuning of Interlayer Exciton Gases in WSe 2 Bilayers
journal, December 2017


Towards polariton blockade of confined exciton–polaritons
journal, February 2019


Observation of interlayer excitons in MoSe 2 single crystals
journal, June 2018


Imaging two-dimensional generalized Wigner crystals
journal, September 2021


Band alignment of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides: Application in tunnel field effect transistors
journal, July 2013

  • Gong, Cheng; Zhang, Hengji; Wang, Weihua
  • Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 103, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4817409

Resonantly hybridized excitons in moiré superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures
journal, March 2019


Interlayer couplings, Moiré patterns, and 2D electronic superlattices in MoS 2 /WSe 2 hetero-bilayers
journal, January 2017


Light–valley interactions in 2D semiconductors
journal, July 2018


Correlated electronic phases in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, June 2020


Robust optical emission polarization in MoS 2 monolayers through selective valley excitation
journal, August 2012


Momentum-space indirect interlayer excitons in transition-metal dichalcogenide van der Waals heterostructures
journal, April 2018


Influence of the effective layer thickness on the ground-state and excitonic properties of transition-metal dichalcogenide systems
journal, January 2018


Interlayer hybridization and moiré superlattice minibands for electrons and excitons in heterobilayers of transition-metal dichalcogenides
journal, March 2019


Theory of optical absorption by interlayer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers
journal, January 2018


Imaging moiré flat bands in three-dimensional reconstructed WSe2/WS2 superlattices
journal, February 2021


Strongly correlated excitonic insulator in atomic double layers
journal, October 2021


Moiré Potential, Lattice Corrugation, and Band Gap Spatial Variation in a Twist-Free MoTe 2 /MoS 2 Heterobilayer
journal, March 2020


Observation of moiré excitons in WSe2/WS2 heterostructure superlattices
journal, February 2019


Electrical contacts to two-dimensional semiconductors
journal, November 2015

  • Allain, Adrien; Kang, Jiahao; Banerjee, Kaustav
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat4452

Electronic properties of the MoS 2 -WS 2 heterojunction
journal, February 2013


Tailoring excitonic states of van der Waals bilayers through stacking configuration, band alignment, and valley spin
journal, December 2019


Visualization of moiré superlattices
journal, June 2020

  • McGilly, Leo J.; Kerelsky, Alexander; Finney, Nathan R.
  • Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 15, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41565-020-0708-3

Stacking Domains and Dislocation Networks in Marginally Twisted Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
journal, May 2020


Ultrafast generation of pseudo-magnetic field for valley excitons in WSe 2 monolayers
journal, December 2014


Nonlinear Quantum Optics with Trion Polaritons in 2D Monolayers: Conventional and Unconventional Photon Blockade
journal, November 2020


Tuning layer-hybridized moiré excitons by the quantum-confined Stark effect
journal, November 2020


Valley-addressable polaritons in atomically thin semiconductors
journal, July 2017


Highly valley-polarized singlet and triplet interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructure
journal, July 2019


Coupled Spin and Valley Physics in Monolayers of MoS 2 and Other Group-VI Dichalcogenides
journal, May 2012


Condensation of Indirect Excitons in Coupled AlAs/GaAs Quantum Wells
journal, July 1994


Exciton fine structure and spin decoherence in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, May 2014


Interlayer excitons in MoSe 2 / WSe 2 heterostructures from first principles
journal, April 2018


Control of Coherently Coupled Exciton Polaritons in Monolayer Tungsten Disulphide
journal, July 2017


Identification of spin, valley and moiré quasi-angular momentum of interlayer excitons
journal, August 2019


Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, April 2014

  • Xu, Xiaodong; Yao, Wang; Xiao, Di
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 10, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys2942

Direct measurement of key exciton properties: Energy, dynamics, and spatial distribution of the wave function
journal, June 2021

  • Dong, Shuo; Puppin, Michele; Pincelli, Tommaso
  • Natural Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/ntls.10010

Evidence of high-temperature exciton condensation in two-dimensional atomic double layers
journal, October 2019


Critical Point of a Weakly Interacting Two-Dimensional Bose Gas
journal, December 2001


Twist-angle dependence of moiré excitons in WS2/MoSe2 heterobilayers
journal, November 2020


Valley-selective optical Stark effect in monolayer WS2
journal, December 2014

  • Sie, Edbert J.; McIver, James W.; Lee, Yi-Hsien
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat4156

Exciton-Polariton Mediated Superconductivity
journal, March 2010


Flat Bands and Mechanical Deformation Effects in the Moiré Superlattice of MoS 2 -WSe 2 Heterobilayers
journal, June 2020


Giant spin-orbit-induced spin splitting in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenide semiconductors
journal, October 2011


Shubnikov–de Haas Oscillations of High-Mobility Holes in Monolayer and Bilayer WSe 2 : Landau Level Degeneracy, Effective Mass, and Negative Compressibility
journal, February 2016


Valley-Contrasting Physics in Graphene: Magnetic Moment and Topological Transport
journal, December 2007


Ultraflatbands and Shear Solitons in Moiré Patterns of Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
journal, December 2018


Electrically controlled emission from singlet and triplet exciton species in atomically thin light-emitting diodes
journal, April 2021


Kolmogorov–Crespi Potential For Multilayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides: Capturing Structural Transformations in Moiré Superlattices
journal, March 2019

  • Naik, Mit H.; Maity, Indrajit; Maiti, Prabal K.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 123, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10392

Exciton physics and device application of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors
journal, September 2018


Coupling of photonic crystal cavity and interlayer exciton in heterobilayer of transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, December 2019


Large excitonic effects in monolayers of molybdenum and tungsten dichalcogenides
journal, September 2012


Interlayer excitons in a bulk van der Waals semiconductor
journal, September 2017


Valley-selective circular dichroism of monolayer molybdenum disulphide
journal, January 2012

  • Cao, Ting; Wang, Gang; Han, Wenpeng
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 3, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1882

Strongly Enhanced Tunneling at Total Charge Neutrality in Double-Bilayer Graphene- WSe 2 Heterostructures
journal, April 2018


Tailoring the Electronic Structure in Bilayer Molybdenum Disulfide via Interlayer Twist
journal, June 2014

  • van der Zande, Arend M.; Kunstmann, Jens; Chernikov, Alexey
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 14, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl501077m

Splitting between bright and dark excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers
journal, March 2016


Optical signature of symmetry variations and spin-valley coupling in atomically thin tungsten dichalcogenides
journal, April 2013

  • Zeng, Hualing; Liu, Gui-Bin; Dai, Junfeng
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 3, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep01608

Dipolar interactions between localized interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
journal, April 2020


Simulation of Hubbard model physics in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices
journal, March 2020


Valley-polarized exciton–polaritons in a monolayer semiconductor
journal, June 2017

  • Chen, Yen-Jung; Cain, Jeffrey D.; Stanev, Teodor K.
  • Nature Photonics, Vol. 11, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2017.86

Directly visualizing the momentum-forbidden dark excitons and their dynamics in atomically thin semiconductors
journal, December 2020


Enhanced nonlinear interaction of polaritons via excitonic Rydberg states in monolayer WSe2
journal, April 2021


Probing Angle-Dependent Interlayer Coupling in Twisted Bilayer WS2
journal, November 2019

  • Yan, Wei; Meng, Lan; Meng, Zhaoshun
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 123, Issue 50
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b08602

Emergence of quantum correlations from interacting fibre-cavity polaritons
journal, February 2019

  • Muñoz-Matutano, Guillermo; Wood, Andrew; Johnsson, Mattias
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 18, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0281-z

Strong light–matter coupling in two-dimensional atomic crystals
journal, December 2014


Long-Lived Direct and Indirect Interlayer Excitons in van der Waals Heterostructures
journal, August 2017


Exciton Condensate in Semiconductor Quantum Well Structures
journal, February 1995


Origin and evolution of ultraflat bands in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides: Realization of triangular quantum dots
journal, August 2020


Evolution of Electronic Structure in Atomically Thin Sheets of WS 2 and WSe 2
journal, December 2012

  • Zhao, Weijie; Ghorannevis, Zohreh; Chu, Leiqiang
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 7, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1021/nn305275h

Interlayer Excitons with Large Optical Amplitudes in Layered van der Waals Materials
journal, April 2018


Exciton Binding Energy and Nonhydrogenic Rydberg Series in Monolayer WS 2
journal, August 2014


Control of valley polarization in monolayer MoS2 by optical helicity
journal, June 2012


Valley polarization in MoS2 monolayers by optical pumping
journal, June 2012

  • Zeng, Hualing; Dai, Junfeng; Yao, Wang
  • Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 7, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.95