journal article·2026-07-10Open access

Robust Interlayer Exciton Interplay in a Twisted van der Waals Heterotrilayer on a Broadband Bragg Reflector up to Room Temperature

Bhabani Sankar Sahoo, Shachi Machchhar, Avijit Barua, Martin Podhorský, Seth Ariel Tongay, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Chirag Chandrakant Palekar, Stephan Reitzenstein

Abstract

ABSTRACT We report robust room temperature (RT) interlayer excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures engineered via precise stacking orientation and twist‐angle control. We integrate a 2H‐stacked // heterotrilayer (HTL) onto a chirped distributed Bragg reflector (cDBR) that acts as a backside mirror. This way, we fabricate a platform that hosts distinct HTL, heterobilayer (HBL), and homobilayer (HoBL) regions with enhanced excitonic features at elevated temperatures. Although the HBL supports temperature‐tunable singlet and triplet interlayer excitons, it exhibits low emission yield at 4 K. In comparison, the HTL shows remarkable excitonic properties, including pronounced band modulation, intervalley interlayer exciton transitions, and a 10‐fold photoluminescence (PL) enhancement along with a sevenfold increase in exciton decay time at cryogenic temperatures compared to the HBL system. Temperature‐dependent studies reveal intriguing interlayer exciton dynamics in the HTL, including the emergence of valley‐polarized interlayer excitons, and the ability to maintain optical stability up to RT. Our results establish a clear strategy for engineering excitonic states across multilayer van der Waals heterostructures (VdWHSs) from 4 K to RT, providing a versatile platform for excitonic optoelectronics, quantum photonics, and tunable long‐lived interlayer exciton states in scalable TMD heterostructures.
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OpenAlex topics: 2D Materials and Applications · Strong Light-Matter Interactions · Graphene research and applications

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Affiliations

Institut für Physik und Astronomie Technische Universität Berlin Berlin Germany

Materials Science and Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter Transport and Energy, Arizona State University Tempe USA

Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics National Institute for Materials Science Tsukuba Japan

Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials National Institute for Materials Science Tsukuba Japan

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft · Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems · Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation · Japan Society for the Promotion of Science · Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology

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