• 文献标题:   Tunable Optical Excitations in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Form Strongly Bound Excitons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PATEL H, HAVENER RW, BROWN L, LIANG YF, YANG L, PARK J, GRAHAM MW
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, ultrafast microscopy, ghost fano resonance, exciton
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Oregon State Univ
  • 被引频次:   24
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02035
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

When two sheets of graphene stack in a twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) configuration, the resulting constrained overlap between interplanar 2p orbitals produce angle-tunable electronic absorption resonances. By applying a novel combination of multiphoton transient absorption (TA) microscopy and TEM, we resolve the electronic structure and ensuing relaxation by probing resonant excitations of single tBLG domains. Strikingly, we find that the transient electronic population in resonantly excited tBLG domains is enhanced many fold, forming a major electronic relaxation bottleneck. Two-photon TA microscopy shows this bottleneck effect originates from a strongly bound, dark exciton state lying similar to 0.37 eV below the 1-photon absorption resonance. This stable coexistence of strongly bound excitons alongside free-electron continuum states has not been previously observed in a metallic, 2D material.