Nature Communications (Sep 2023)

Interlayer donor-acceptor pair excitons in MoSe2/WSe2 moiré heterobilayer

  • Hongbing Cai,
  • Abdullah Rasmita,
  • Qinghai Tan,
  • Jia-Min Lai,
  • Ruihua He,
  • Xiangbin Cai,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Disheng Chen,
  • Naizhou Wang,
  • Zhao Mu,
  • Zumeng Huang,
  • Zhaowei Zhang,
  • John J. H. Eng,
  • Yuanda Liu,
  • Yongzhi She,
  • Nan Pan,
  • Yansong Miao,
  • Xiaoping Wang,
  • Xiaogang Liu,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Weibo Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41330-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Abstract Localized interlayer excitons (LIXs) in two-dimensional moiré superlattices exhibit sharp and dense emission peaks, making them promising as highly tunable single-photon sources. However, the fundamental nature of these LIXs is still elusive. Here, we show the donor-acceptor pair (DAP) mechanism as one of the origins of these excitonic peaks. Numerical simulation results of the DAP model agree with the experimental photoluminescence spectra of LIX in the moiré MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayer. In particular, we find that the emission energy-lifetime correlation and the nonmonotonic power dependence of the lifetime agree well with the DAP IX model. Our results provide insight into the physical mechanism of LIX formation in moiré heterostructures and pave new directions for engineering interlayer exciton properties in moiré superlattices.