Confinement of long-lived interlayer excitons in WS2/WSe2 heterostructures

Authors :: Alejandro R.-P. Montblanch
Dhiren M. Kara
Ioannis Paradisanos
Carola M. Purser
Matthew S. G. Feuer
Evgeny M. Alexeev
Lucio Stefan
Ying Qin
Mark Blei
Gang Wang
Alisson R. Cadore
Pawel Latawiec
Marko Lončar
Sefaattin Tongay
Andrea C. Ferrari
Mete Atatüre
Source :: Communications Physics, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021)
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Nature Portfolio, 2021.
Abstract: Excitons are quasiparticles consisting of an electron-hole pair and can be used to study many-body phenomenon. Here, the authors demonstrate on-demand quantum confinement of long-lived interlayer excitons in WS2/WSe2 heterostructures deposited on nanopatterned substrates.