Moiré photonics and optoelectronics

L Du, MR Molas, Z Huang, G Zhang, F Wang, Z Sun - Science, 2023 - science.org
Moiré superlattices, the artificial quantum materials, have provided a wide range of
possibilities for the exploration of completely new physics and device architectures. In this …

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 in semiconductor moiré superlattices

D Huang, J Choi, CK Shih, X Li - Nature nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Semiconductor moiré superlattices represent a rapidly develo** area of engineered
photonic materials and a new platform to explore correlated electron states and quantum …

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 …

Interfacial ferroelectricity in rhombohedral-stacked bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

X Wang, K Yasuda, Y Zhang, S Liu, K Watanabe… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract van der Waals materials have greatly expanded our design space of
heterostructures by allowing individual layers to be stacked at non-equilibrium …

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 …

Direct visualization of magnetic domains and moiré magnetism in twisted 2D magnets

T Song, QC Sun, E Anderson, C Wang, J Qian… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Moiré superlattices of twisted nonmagnetic two-dimensional (2D) materials are highly
controllable platforms for the engineering of exotic correlated and topological states. Here …

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 …

Stacking-engineered ferroelectricity in bilayer boron nitride

K Yasuda, X Wang, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectrics with robust polarization down to atomic thicknesses
provide building blocks for functional heterostructures. Experimental realization remains …

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 …