Nature Communications (May 2020)

Twist-tailoring Coulomb correlations in van der Waals homobilayers

  • Philipp Merkl,
  • Fabian Mooshammer,
  • Samuel Brem,
  • Anna Girnghuber,
  • Kai-Qiang Lin,
  • Leonard Weigl,
  • Marlene Liebich,
  • Chaw-Keong Yong,
  • Roland Gillen,
  • Janina Maultzsch,
  • John M. Lupton,
  • Ermin Malic,
  • Rupert Huber

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16069-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The crystallographic orientation of monolayers in van der Waals multi-layers controls their electronic and optical properties. Here the authors show how the twist angle affects Coulomb correlations governing the internal structure and the mutual interaction of excitons in homobilayers of WSe2.