TY - JOUR
T1 - Strong optical response and light emission from a monolayer molecular crystal
AU - Zhao, Huijuan
AU - Zhao, Yingbo
AU - Song, Yinxuan
AU - Zhou, Ming
AU - Lv, Wei
AU - Tao, Liu
AU - Feng, Yuzhang
AU - Song, Biying
AU - Ma, Yue
AU - Zhang, Junqing
AU - Xiao, Jun
AU - Wang, Ying
AU - Lien, Der Hsien
AU - Amani, Matin
AU - Kim, Hyungjin
AU - Chen, Xiaoqing
AU - Wu, Zhangting
AU - Ni, Zhenhua
AU - Wang, Peng
AU - Shi, Yi
AU - Ma, Haibo
AU - Zhang, Xiang
AU - Xu, Jian Bin
AU - Troisi, Alessandro
AU - Javey, Ali
AU - Wang, Xinran
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Excitons in two-dimensional (2D) materials are tightly bound and exhibit rich physics. So far, the optical excitations in 2D semiconductors are dominated by Wannier-Mott excitons, but molecular systems can host Frenkel excitons (FE) with unique properties. Here, we report a strong optical response in a class of monolayer molecular J-aggregates. The exciton exhibits giant oscillator strength and absorption (over 30% for monolayer) at resonance, as well as photoluminescence quantum yield in the range of 60–100%. We observe evidence of superradiance (including increased oscillator strength, bathochromic shift, reduced linewidth and lifetime) at room-temperature and more progressively towards low temperature. These unique properties only exist in monolayer owing to the large unscreened dipole interactions and suppression of charge-transfer processes. Finally, we demonstrate light-emitting devices with the monolayer J-aggregate. The intrinsic device speed could be beyond 30 GHz, which is promising for next-generation ultrafast on-chip optical communications.
AB - Excitons in two-dimensional (2D) materials are tightly bound and exhibit rich physics. So far, the optical excitations in 2D semiconductors are dominated by Wannier-Mott excitons, but molecular systems can host Frenkel excitons (FE) with unique properties. Here, we report a strong optical response in a class of monolayer molecular J-aggregates. The exciton exhibits giant oscillator strength and absorption (over 30% for monolayer) at resonance, as well as photoluminescence quantum yield in the range of 60–100%. We observe evidence of superradiance (including increased oscillator strength, bathochromic shift, reduced linewidth and lifetime) at room-temperature and more progressively towards low temperature. These unique properties only exist in monolayer owing to the large unscreened dipole interactions and suppression of charge-transfer processes. Finally, we demonstrate light-emitting devices with the monolayer J-aggregate. The intrinsic device speed could be beyond 30 GHz, which is promising for next-generation ultrafast on-chip optical communications.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-019-13581-9
DO - 10.1038/s41467-019-13581-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 31811122
AN - SCOPUS:85076263989
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 10
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 5589
ER -