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ArticleNano letters2025

Diffusion of Valley-Coherent Dark Excitons in a Large-Angle Incommensurate Moiré Homobilayer.

Arnab Barman Ray, Trevor Ollis, K R Sethuraj, Anthony Nickolas Vamivakas

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Article in Nano letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Arnab Barman RayThe Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, 480 Intercampus Dr, Rochester, New York 14627, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0310-019X
Trevor OllisDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States.
K R SethurajThe Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, 480 Intercampus Dr, Rochester, New York 14627, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8492-0255
Anthony Nickolas VamivakasThe Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, 480 Intercampus Dr, Rochester, New York 14627, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4253-1611

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Abstract

Recent research in twistronics, particularly in small-angle twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, has uncovered exciting phenomena like periodic arrays of excitonic quantum emitters, exotic many-body states, and long-lived interlayer excitons. However, less explored has been the physics of large-angle, incommensurate bilayers, where periodicity breaks down. In this study, we demonstrate the emergence of a brightened dark intralayer exciton in a twisted n-doped molybdenum diselenide homobilayer. This dark exciton diffuses more efficiently than bright excitons or trions, with diffusion lengths over 4 μm. Temperature-dependent spectra show a brightened dark trion, and we observe a robust valley coherence. This unique behavior is attributed to a small mixing of spin-resolved conduction bands, caused by a lack of out-of-plane reflection symmetry and strong dielectric contrast. Our findings open new possibilities for valleytronic devices using valley-robust "mixed" dark excitons.

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2D materialsIntralayer excitonsMoiré superlatticeOptoelectronics

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PMID40085498
PMCPMC11951149

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