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Stark Effect and Valley Polarization of Interlayer Excitons in 3 Twisted Bilayer WSe2

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School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 511442, China
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Spin-X Institute, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 511442, China
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Photonics 2026, 13(6), 579; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics13060579 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 30 April 2026 / Revised: 3 June 2026 / Accepted: 11 June 2026 / Published: 13 June 2026
(This article belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Abstract

Twist-angle engineering in van der Waals bilayers enables excitonic and valley phenomena that are not accessible in naturally stacked crystals. In a dual-gated 3 twisted bilayer WSe2 device, low-temperature polarization-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy reveals a pronounced Stark shift of the interlayer exciton, yielding an effective electron–hole separation of 0.26 nm and indicating a strongly hybridized interlayer excitonic state. The degree of circular polarization (DOCP) is strongly doping-dependent but only weakly affected by the vertical electric field: at zero magnetic field, the DOCP is about 30% in the electron-doped regime and about 18% in the hole-doped regime. An out-of-plane magnetic field of 9 T sharpens this contrast to about 35% and 13%, respectively, suggesting distinct intervalley depolarization dynamics in the two doping regimes. Together, these results show that an electric field primarily tunes exciton energy, whereas doping and a magnetic field control valley polarization, highlighting small-angle twisted bilayer WSe2 as a promising platform for tunable excitonic and valley-optoelectronic functionalities.
Keywords: twisted bilayer WSe2; interlayer exciton; stark effect; valley polarization twisted bilayer WSe2; interlayer exciton; stark effect; valley polarization

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Zhou, H.; Pal, K. Stark Effect and Valley Polarization of Interlayer Excitons in 3 Twisted Bilayer WSe2. Photonics 2026, 13, 579. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics13060579

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Zhou H, Pal K. Stark Effect and Valley Polarization of Interlayer Excitons in 3 Twisted Bilayer WSe2. Photonics. 2026; 13(6):579. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics13060579

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Zhou, Haohan, and Koustav Pal. 2026. "Stark Effect and Valley Polarization of Interlayer Excitons in 3 Twisted Bilayer WSe2" Photonics 13, no. 6: 579. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics13060579

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Zhou, H., & Pal, K. (2026). Stark Effect and Valley Polarization of Interlayer Excitons in 3 Twisted Bilayer WSe2. Photonics, 13(6), 579. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics13060579

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