Journal
NATURE MATERIALS
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 299-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0601-3
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- Swiss National Science Foundation (Division II)
- EU Graphene Flagship project
- Swiss National Science Foundation through the Ambizione program
- European Graphene Flagship Core 2 Project [785219]
- ERC Synergy Grant Hetero2D
- EPSRC [EP/S030719/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/P026850/1, EP/N010345/1]
- Lloyd Register Foundation Nanotechnology Grant
- Elemental Strategy Initiative
- A3 Foresight by JSPS
- CREST, JST [JP-MJCR15F3]
- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- EPSRC [EP/K005014/1, EP/N010345/1, EP/P026850/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/P025021/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Type-II van der Waals interfaces formed by different two-dimensional materials enable robust interlayer optical transitions, regardless of common issues such as lattice constant mismatch, layer misalignment or whether the constituent compounds are direct or indirect band semiconductors. Van der Waals (vdW) interfaces based on 2D materials are promising for optoelectronics, as interlayer transitions between different compounds allow tailoring of the spectral response over a broad range. However, issues such as lattice mismatch or a small misalignment of the constituent layers can drastically suppress electron-photon coupling for these interlayer transitions. Here, we engineered type-II interfaces by assembling atomically thin crystals that have the bottom of the conduction band and the top of the valence band at the Gamma point, and thus avoid any momentum mismatch. We found that these van der Waals interfaces exhibit radiative optical transitions irrespective of the lattice constant, the rotational and/or translational alignment of the two layers or whether the constituent materials are direct or indirect gap semiconductors. Being robust and of general validity, our results broaden the scope of future optoelectronics device applications based on two-dimensional materials.
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