Advances in van der Waals heterostructures allow the control of interlayer excitons by electrical and other means, promising exciting opportunities for high-temperature exciton condensation and valley–spin optoelectronics.
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K.F.M. acknowledges the support of a David and Lucille Packard Fellowship and a Sloan Fellowship. J.S. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation under grant DMR-1807810.
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Mak, K.F., Shan, J. Opportunities and challenges of interlayer exciton control and manipulation. Nature Nanotech 13, 974–976 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-018-0301-1
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