• 文献标题:   Stacking angle-tunable photoluminescence from interlayer exciton states in twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PATEL H, HUANG LJ, KIM CJ, PARK J, GRAHAM MW
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
  • 通讯作者地址:   Oregon State Univ
  • 被引频次:   17
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41467-019-09097-x
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) is a metallic material with two degenerate van Hove singularity transitions that can rehybridize to form interlayer exciton states. Here we report photoluminescence (PL) emission from tBLG after resonant 2-photon excitation, which tunes with the interlayer stacking angle, theta. We spatially image individual tBLG domains at room-temperature and show a five-fold resonant PL-enhancement over the background hot-electron emission. Prior theory predicts that interlayer orbitals mix to create 2-photon-accessible strongly-bound (similar to 0.7 eV) exciton and continuum-edge states, which we observe as two spectral peaks in both PL excitation and excited-state absorption spectra. This peak splitting provides independent estimates of the exciton binding energy which scales from 0.5-0.7 eV with theta = 7.5 degrees to 16.5 degrees. A predicted vanishing exciton-continuum coupling strength helps explain both the weak resonant PL and the slower 1 ps(-1) exciton relaxation rate observed. This hybrid metal-exciton behavior electron thermalization and PL emission are tunable with stacking angle for potential enhancements in optoelectronic and fast-photosensing graphene-based applications.