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Moiré phonons in twisted MoSe 2 –WSe 2 heterobilayers and their correlation with interlayer excitons

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Authors

Scheuck, Marten 
Beer, Andreas 

Abstract

Abstract: We report about the investigation of twisted MoSe2 homo- and MoSe2–WSe2 heterobilayers by means of low-frequency Raman spectroscopy (LFRS) and low-temperature micro photoluminescence (µPL). In room-temperature LFRS experiments on both, twisted MoSe2 homobilayers and twisted MoSe2–WSe2 heterobilayers, we observe moiré phonons, i.e. folded acoustic phonon modes due to the moiré superlattice. In the heterobilayers, we can identify moiré phonons of both materials, MoSe2 and WSe2. While the twist angles for the homobilayers are relatively precisely known from the applied tear-and-stack preparation method, the twist angles of the heterobilayers have to be determined via second-harmonic-generation microscopy on monolayer regions of the samples, which has significant uncertainties. We show that by the moiré phonons of the heterobilayers, the relative twist angles can be determined on a local scale with much higher precision. We apply our technique for the investigation of a large area H-type (twist angle θ = 60∘ + δ) MoSe2–WSe2 heterobilayer. These investigations show that spatial regions, which can be identified to be atomically reconstructed (i.e. δ = 0∘) by the observation of an interlayer shear mode in LFRS experiments, exhibit a strong, momentum-allowed interlayer-exciton signal in low-temperature µPL. On the contrary, regions, where moiré phonons are observed, i.e. which can be identified to be rigidly twisted by a misalignment angle in the range of 5°≲|δ|≲6° , exhibit no significant interlayer-exciton signals.

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Keywords

Paper, moiré phonons, moiré superlattice, Raman scattering, transition-metal dichalcogenides, interlayer excitons

Journal Title

2D Materials

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Journal ISSN

2053-1583

Volume Title

8

Publisher

IOP Publishing
Sponsorship
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (KO3612-3, KO3612-4, Project ID 314695032- SFB 1277 (subproject B05), SCHU1171/10-1)