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 …

Uniform nucleation and epitaxy of bilayer molybdenum disulfide on sapphire

L Liu, T Li, L Ma, W Li, S Gao, W Sun, R Dong, X Zou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are of interest for beyond-silicon
electronics,. It has been suggested that bilayer TMDs, which combine good electrostatic …

Ferroelectricity in untwisted heterobilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

L Rogée, L Wang, Y Zhang, S Cai, P Wang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Two-dimensional materials with out-of-plane (OOP) ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties
are highly desirable for the realization of ultrathin ferro-and piezoelectronic devices. We …

Engineering interfacial polarization switching in van der Waals multilayers

M Van Winkle, N Dowlatshahi, N Khaloo, M Iyer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In conventional ferroelectric materials, polarization is an intrinsic property limited by bulk
crystallographic structure and symmetry. Recently, it has been demonstrated that polar order …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …