Electrically controlled emission from triplet charged excitons in atomically thin heterostructures

Abstract

Excitons are composite bosons that can feature spin singlet and triplet states. In usual semiconductors, without an additional spin-flip mechanism, triplet excitons are extremely inefficient optical emitters. Large spin-orbit coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) couples circularly polarized light to excitons with selective valley and spin. Here, we demonstrate electrically controlled brightening of spin-triplet interlayer excitons in a MoSe${}_2$/WSe${}_2$ TMD van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure. The atomic registry of vdW layers in TMD heterostructures provides a quasi-angular momentum to interlayer excitons, enabling emission from otherwise dark spin-triplet excitons. Employing magnetic field, we show that photons emitted by triplet and singlet excitons in the same valley have opposite chirality. We also measure effective exciton g-factors, presenting direct and quantitative evidence of triplet interlayer excitons. We further demonstrate gate tuning of the relative photoluminescence intensity between singlet and triplet charged excitons. Electrically controlled emission between singlet and triplet excitons enables a route for optoelectronic devices that can configure excitonic chiral, spin, and valley quantum states.

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