Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers

EC Regan, D Wang, EY Paik, Y Zeng, L Zhang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are 2D semiconductors with tightly
bound excitons and correspondingly strong light–matter interactions. Owing to the weak van …

Semiconductor moiré materials

KF Mak, J Shan - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Moiré materials have emerged as a platform for exploring the physics of strong electronic
correlations and non-trivial band topology. Here we review the recent progress in …

Operando electron microscopy investigation of polar domain dynamics in twisted van der Waals homobilayers

K Ko, A Yuk, R Engelke, S Carr, J Kim, D Park, H Heo… - Nature Materials, 2023‏ - nature.com
Conventional antiferroelectric materials with atomic-scale anti-aligned dipoles undergo a
transition to a ferroelectric (FE) phase under strong electric fields. The moiré superlattice …

Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics

A Ciarrocchi, F Tagarelli, A Avsar, A Kis - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides comprise an emerging class of
materials with distinct properties, including large exciton binding energies that reach …

Excitons and emergent quantum phenomena in stacked 2D semiconductors

NP Wilson, W Yao, J Shan, X Xu - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
The design and control of material interfaces is a foundational approach to realize
technologically useful effects and engineer material properties. This is especially true for two …

Interlayer exciton formation, relaxation, and transport in TMD van der Waals heterostructures

Y Jiang, S Chen, W Zheng, B Zheng… - Light: Science & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures based on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)
generally possess a type-II band alignment that facilitates the formation of interlayer excitons …

Interfacial ferroelectricity in marginally twisted 2D semiconductors

A Weston, EG Castanon, V Enaldiev, F Ferreira… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Twisted heterostructures of two-dimensional crystals offer almost unlimited scope for the
design of new metamaterials. Here we demonstrate a room temperature ferroelectric …

Interfacial ferroelectricity by van der Waals sliding

M Vizner Stern, Y Waschitz, W Cao, I Nevo… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Despite their partial ionic nature, many-layered diatomic crystals avoid internal electric
polarization by forming a centrosymmetric lattice at their optimal van der Waals stacking …

Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials

M Turunen, M Brotons-Gisbert, Y Dai, Y Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Solid-state quantum devices use quantum entanglement for various quantum technologies,
such as quantum computation, encryption, communication and sensing. Solid-state …

Cumulative polarization in conductive interfacial ferroelectrics

S Deb, W Cao, N Raab, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Ferroelectricity in atomically thin bilayer structures has been recently predicted and
measured,–in two-dimensional materials with hexagonal non-centrosymmetric unit-cells …