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Opportunities and challenges of interlayer exciton control and manipulation

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Advances in van der Waals heterostructures allow the control of interlayer excitons by electrical and other means, promising exciting opportunities for high-temperature exciton condensation and valley–spin optoelectronics.

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Fig. 1: Interlayer excitons.
Fig. 2: Quantum-confined Stark effect in TMD bilayers.
Fig. 3: Electrostatic gating effect on interlayer excitons in MoSe2/WSe2 hetero-bilayers.

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K.F.M. acknowledges the support of a David and Lucille Packard Fellowship and a Sloan Fellowship. J.S. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation under grant DMR-1807810.

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    Kin Fai Mak & Jie Shan

  2. Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, NY, USA

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Mak, K.F., Shan, J. Opportunities and challenges of interlayer exciton control and manipulation. Nature Nanotech 13, 974–976 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-018-0301-1

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