Moiré-engineered light-matter interactions in MoS2/WSe2 heterobilayers at room temperature
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2024-12
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Nature Communications, Volume 15, issue 1
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Moiré superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures represent a highly tunable quantum system, attracting substantial interest in both many-body physics and device applications. However, the influence of the moiré potential on light-matter interactions at room temperature has remained largely unexplored. In our study, we demonstrate that the moiré potential in MoS2/WSe2 heterobilayers facilitates the localization of interlayer exciton (IX) at room temperature. By performing reflection contrast spectroscopy, we demonstrate the importance of atomic reconstruction in modifying intralayer excitons, supported by the atomic force microscopy experiment. When decreasing the twist angle, we observe that the IX lifetime becomes longer and light emission gets enhanced, indicating that non-radiative decay channels such as defects are suppressed by the moiré potential. Moreover, through the integration of moiré superlattices with silicon single-mode cavities, we find that the devices employing moiré-trapped IXs exhibit a significantly lower threshold, one order of magnitude smaller compared to the device utilizing delocalized IXs. These findings not only encourage the exploration of many-body physics in moiré superlattices at elevated temperatures but also pave the way for leveraging these artificial quantum materials in photonic and optoelectronic applications.Description
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Lin, Q, Fang, H, Kalaboukhov, A, Liu, Y, Zhang, Y, Fischer, M, Li, J, Hagel, J, Brem, S, Malic, E, Stenger, N, Sun, Z, Wubs, M & Xiao, S 2024, ' Moiré-engineered light-matter interactions in MoS 2 /WSe 2 heterobilayers at room temperature ', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 8762 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53083-x