Title
Excitons in a reconstructed moiré potential in twisted WSe2/WSe2 homobilayers
Date Issued
01 April 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Andersen T.I.
Scuri G.
Sushko A.
De Greve K.
Sung J.
Zhou Y.
Wild D.S.
Gelly R.J.
Heo H.
Bérubé D.
Joe A.Y.
Watanabe K.
Taniguchi T.
Kim P.
Park H.
Lukin M.D.
Harvard University
Publisher(s)
Nature Research
Abstract
Moiré superlattices in twisted van der Waals materials have recently emerged as a promising platform for engineering electronic and optical properties. A major obstacle to fully understanding these systems and harnessing their potential is the limited ability to correlate direct imaging of the moiré structure with optical and electronic properties. Here we develop a secondary electron microscope technique to directly image stacking domains in fully functional van der Waals heterostructure devices. After demonstrating the imaging of AB/BA and ABA/ABC domains in multilayer graphene, we employ this technique to investigate reconstructed moiré patterns in twisted WSe2/WSe2 bilayers and directly correlate the increasing moiré periodicity with the emergence of two distinct exciton species in photoluminescence measurements. These states can be tuned individually through electrostatic gating and feature different valley coherence properties. We attribute our observations to the formation of an array of two intralayer exciton species that reside in alternating locations in the superlattice, and open up new avenues to realize tunable exciton arrays in twisted van der Waals heterostructures, with applications in quantum optoelectronics and explorations of novel many-body systems.
Start page
480
End page
487
Volume
20
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
IngenierĂa quĂmica
QuĂmica fĂsica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85098782351
PubMed ID
Source
Nature Materials
ISSN of the container
14761122
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation 1125846, 1506284, 1541959, PHY-1125846, PHY-1506284
U.S. Department of Defense N00014-16-1-2825, N00014-18-1-2877
Air Force Office of Scientific Research FA9550-17-1-0002
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation GBMF4543
Sources of information:
Directorio de ProducciĂ³n CientĂfica
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