The primary tool to study light-matter interactions of excitons in layered semiconductors and heterostructures is optical spectroscopy,
including complementary methods of absorption, continuous-wave or time-resolved photoluminescence and magneto-luminescence at cryogenic temperatures down to a few tens of mK.
Specific sample realizations include transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with varying dielectric environments and
charge carrier control as provided by field-effect van der Waals heterostructures.
We use both commercial materials and TMD monolayers, bilayers and heterobilayers from in-house chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthesis.
In our laboratories, we operate modular fiber-based home-built confocal microscopes optimized for cryogenic operation in liquid-helium and
closed-cycle cryostats or a dilution refrigerator with and without magnetic fields. Various lasers and light-sources, high-end spectrometers, time-resolved measurement techniques,
single-photon detectors, and full control of the polarization of light support our studies of different types of excitons in monolayers and van der Waals heterostructures [1-4].
- Moiré excitons in MoSe2-WSe2 heterobilayers and heterotrilayers
M. Förg, A. S. Baimuratov, S. Yu. Kruchinin, I. A. Vovk, J. Scherzer, J. Förste, V. Funk, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Högele
Nat. Commun. 12, 1656 (2021) — PDF
- Exciton g-factors in monolayer and bilayer WSe2 from experiment and theory
J. Förste, N. V. Tepliakov, S. Yu. Kruchinin, J. Lindlau, V. Funk, M. Förg, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. S. Baimuratov, A. Högele
Nat. Commun. 11, 4539 (2020) — PDF
- Signatures of defect-localized charged excitons in the photoluminescence of monolayer molybdenum disulfide
A. Neumann, J. Lindlau, M. Nutz, A. D. Mohite, H. Yamaguchi, A. Högele
Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 124003 (2018) — PDF
- The role of momentum-dark excitons in the elementary optical response of bilayer WSe2
J. Lindlau, M. Selig, A. Neumann, L. Colombier, J. Förste, V. Funk, M. Förg, J. Kim, G. Berghäuser, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, F. Wang, E. Malic, A. Högele
Nat. Commun. 9, 2586 (2018) — PDF