The emission efficiency of interlayer excitons (IEs) in twisted 2D heterostructures has long suffered from momentum mismatch, limiting their applications in ultracompact excitonic devices. Here, we report strong room-temperature emission of the momentum-forbidden IEs in a 30°-twisted MoS2/WS2 heterobilayer. Utilizing the Purcell effect of a compact plasmonic nanocavity boosts the IE emission intensity in the cavity by over 2 orders of magnitude. We further study the interplay of this Purcell enhancement and phonon assistance in 30°- and 0°-twisted heterostructures. Temperature-dependent and time-resolved spectroscopic measurements reveal that the IE enhancement in the 30°-twisted case involves competition between IE and intralayer-exciton emissions, which is remarkably distinct from the 0°-twisted case. We propose an exciton decay model capturing the features of phonon-assisted momentum compensation and Purcell enhancement in the IE emission, showing consistency with the experimental measurements. Our results enrich the understanding of the nanocavity-assisted light-matter interaction for momentum-indirect excitonic transitions.
Keywords: Purcell effect; heterostructure; interlayer exciton; momentum mismatch; twist angle.