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 …

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 …

Evidence of high-temperature exciton condensation in two-dimensional atomic double layers

Z Wang, DA Rhodes, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
A Bose–Einstein condensate is the ground state of a dilute gas of bosons, such as atoms
cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero. With much smaller mass, excitons (bound …

Strongly correlated excitonic insulator in atomic double layers

L Ma, PX Nguyen, Z Wang, Y Zeng, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Excitonic insulators (EIs) arise from the formation of bound electron–hole pairs (excitons), in
semiconductors and provide a solid-state platform for quantum many-boson physics …

Perfect Coulomb drag in a dipolar excitonic insulator

PX Nguyen, L Ma, R Chaturvedi, K Watanabe… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Excitonic insulators (EIs), arising in semiconductors when the electron-hole binding energy
exceeds the band gap, are a solid-state prototype for bosonic phases of matter. Unlike the …

Keldysh field theory of dynamical exciton condensation transitions in nonequilibrium electron-hole bilayers

Y Zeng, V Crépel, AJ Millis - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Recent experiments have realized steady-state electrical injection of interlayer excitons in
electron-hole bilayers subject to a large bias voltage. In the ideal case in which interlayer …

Josephson-like tunnel resonance and large Coulomb drag in GaAs-based electron-hole bilayers

ML Davis, S Parolo, C Reichl, W Dietsche… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Bilayers consisting of two-dimensional (2D) electron and hole gases separated by a 10 nm
thick AlGaAs barrier are formed by charge accumulation in epitaxially grown GaAs. Both …

Long-Lived Topological Flatband Excitons in Semiconductor Moiré Heterostructures: A Bosonic Kane-Mele Model Platform

M **e, M Hafezi, S Das Sarma - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Moiré superlattices based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)
have emerged as a highly versatile and fruitful platform for exploring correlated topological …

Interlayer exciton dynamics of transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures under electric fields

J Tang, Y Zheng, K Jiang, Q You, Z Yin, Z **e, H Li… - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
Stacking single layers of atoms on top of each other provides a fundamental way to achieve
novel material systems and engineer their physical properties, which offers opportunities for …

Electrically controlled two-dimensional electron-hole fluids

Y Zeng, AH MacDonald - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study the electronic properties of dual-gated electron-hole bilayers in which the two
layers are separated by a perfectly opaque tunnel barrier. Combining an electrostatic and …