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Localized interlayer excitons in MoSe2-WSe2 heterostructures without a moiré potential.

Fateme Mahdikhanysarvejahany1, Daniel N Shanks1, Matthew Klein1

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.

Nature Communications
|September 13, 2022
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Spectrally narrow interlayer exciton (IX) photoluminescence (PL) in MoSe2-WSe2 heterobilayers is observed even without moiré potential localization. This suggests the moiré potential is not the sole origin of these narrow IX PL lines.

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