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 …

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 …

Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems

J Bloch, I Carusotto, M Wouters - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The study of Bose–Einstein condensation effects in photonic systems has revealed
a rich phenomenology related to spontaneous coherence generation in driven-dissipative …

Coherent many-body exciton in van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3

S Kang, K Kim, BH Kim, J Kim, KI Sim, JU Lee, S Lee… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
An exciton is the bosonic quasiparticle of electron–hole pairs bound by the Coulomb
interaction. Bose–Einstein condensation of this exciton state has long been the subject of …

Ultrafast exciton fluid flow in an atomically thin MoS2 semiconductor

AG Del Águila, YR Wong, I Wadgaonkar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Excitons (coupled electron–hole pairs) in semiconductors can form collective states that
sometimes exhibit spectacular nonlinear properties. Here, we show experimental evidence …

Valley-polarized exciton dynamics in a 2D semiconductor heterostructure

P Rivera, KL Seyler, H Yu, JR Schaibley, J Yan… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Heterostructures comprising different monolayer semiconductors provide an attractive
setting for fundamental science and device technologies, such as in the emerging field of …

Interspecies exciton interactions lead to enhanced nonlinearity of dipolar excitons and polaritons in MoS2 homobilayers

C Louca, A Genco, S Chiavazzo, TP Lyons… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear interactions between excitons strongly coupled to light are key for accessing
quantum many-body phenomena in polariton systems. Atomically-thin two-dimensional …

Electrical control of neutral and charged excitons in a monolayer semiconductor

JS Ross, S Wu, H Yu, NJ Ghimire, AM Jones… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Monolayer group-VI transition metal dichalcogenides have recently emerged as
semiconducting alternatives to graphene in which the true two-dimensionality is expected to …

Exciton diffusion and halo effects in monolayer semiconductors

M Kulig, J Zipfel, P Nagler, S Blanter, C Schüller… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We directly monitor exciton propagation in freestanding and SiO 2-supported WS 2
monolayers through spatially and time-resolved microphotoluminescence under ambient …