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 …

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 …

Interlayer valley excitons in heterobilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

P Rivera, H Yu, KL Seyler, NP Wilson, W Yao… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Stacking different two-dimensional crystals into van der Waals heterostructures provides an
exciting approach to designing quantum materials that can harness and extend the already …

Room-temperature electrical control of exciton flux in a van der Waals heterostructure

D Unuchek, A Ciarrocchi, A Avsar, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Devices that rely on the manipulation of excitons—bound pairs of electrons and holes—hold
great promise for realizing efficient interconnects between optical data transmission and …

Valleytronics in 2D materials

JR Schaibley, H Yu, G Clark, P Rivera, JS Ross… - Nature Reviews …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Semiconductor technology is currently based on the manipulation of electronic charge;
however, electrons have additional degrees of freedom, such as spin and valley, that can be …

Twist-angle-dependent interlayer exciton diffusion in WS2–WSe2 heterobilayers

L Yuan, B Zheng, J Kunstmann, T Brumme, AB Kuc… - Nature materials, 2020‏ - nature.com
The nanoscale periodic potentials introduced by moiré patterns in semiconducting van der
Waals heterostructures have emerged as a platform for designing exciton superlattices …

The 2019 surface acoustic waves roadmap

P Delsing, AN Cleland, MJA Schuetz… - Journal of Physics D …, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Today, surface acoustic waves (SAWs) and bulk acoustic waves are already two of the very
few phononic technologies of industrial relevance and can been found in a myriad of …

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 …

Carbon nanomaterials for electronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, and sensing

D Jariwala, VK Sangwan, LJ Lauhon… - Chemical Society …, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In the last three decades, zero-dimensional, one-dimensional, and two-dimensional carbon
nanomaterials (ie, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene, respectively) have attracted …

Valleytronics in transition metal dichalcogenides materials

Y Liu, Y Gao, S Zhang, J He, J Yu, Z Liu - Nano Research, 2019‏ - Springer
Valley degree of freedom in the first Brillouin zone of Bloch electrons offers an innovative
approach to information storage and quantum computation. Broken inversion symmetry …