Engineering interlayer hybridization in van der Waals bilayers

E Barré, M Dandu, S Kundu, A Sood… - Nature Reviews …, 2024‏ - nature.com
In the decade since the introduction of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures for designer
devices, there has been an abundance of studies on the artificial assembly of vdW …

New excitons in multilayer 2D materials

L Du - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024‏ - nature.com
Excitonic effects dominate the optical properties of 2D materials, and excitons have been
observed both within a single layer, and between two layers of 2D materials. In 2023, a …

Observation of quadrupolar and dipolar excitons in a semiconductor heterotrilayer

L Yu, K Pistunova, J Hu, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature materials, 2023‏ - nature.com
Van der Waals (vdW) materials have opened up many avenues for discovery through layer
assembly, as epitomized by interlayer dipolar excitons that exhibit electrically tunable …

Two-Dimensional Materials for Brain-Inspired Computing Hardware

S Hadke, MA Kang, VK Sangwan… - Chemical Reviews, 2025‏ - ACS Publications
Recent breakthroughs in brain-inspired computing promise to address a wide range of
problems from security to healthcare. However, the current strategy of implementing artificial …

Evidence for exciton crystals in a 2D semiconductor heterotrilayer

Y Bai, Y Li, S Liu, Y Guo, J Pack, J Wang, CR Dean… - Nano Letters, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) and their moiré interfaces
have been demonstrated for correlated electron states, including Mott insulators and …

Excitonic complexes in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

X Chen, Z Lian, Y Meng, L Ma, SF Shi - nature communications, 2023‏ - nature.com
The enhanced Coulomb interaction in two dimensions leads to not only tightly bound
excitons but also many-particle excitonic complexes: excitons interacting with other …

Electrically controlled photonic circuits of field-induced dipolaritons with huge nonlinearities

D Liran, R Rapaport, J Hu, N Lydick, H Deng, L Pfeiffer - Physical Review X, 2024‏ - APS
Electrically controlled photonic circuits hold promise for information technologies with greatly
improved energy efficiency and quantum information processing capabilities. However …

Ambient Degradation Anisotropy and Mechanism of van der Waals Ferroelectric NbOI2

Q Yan, Y Weng, S Wang, Z Zhou, Y Hu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
The spontaneous centrosymmetry-breaking and robust room-temperature ferroelectricity in
niobium oxide dihalides spurs a flurry of explorations into its promising second-order …

Quadrupolar excitons in MoSe2 bilayers

J Jasiński, J Hagel, S Brem, E Wietek… - Nature …, 2025‏ - nature.com
The quest for platforms to generate and control exotic excitonic states has greatly benefited
from the advent of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and their …

Highly Emissive Colloidal Nanocrystals of a “2.5-Dimensional” Monomethylhydrazinium Lead Bromide

V Morad, T Kim, S Sabisch, SC Boehme… - Journal of the …, 2025‏ - ACS Publications
The ability to control materials at the nanoscale has advanced optoelectronic devices, such
as LEDs, displays, and quantum light sources. A new frontier is controlling exciton properties …