Highly mobile charge-transfer excitons in two-dimensional WS2/tetracene heterostructures

Zhu, Tong; Yuan, Long; Zhao, Yan; Zhou, Mingwei; Wan, Yan; Mei, Jianguo; Huang, Libai

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao3104

Title: Highly mobile charge-transfer excitons in two-dimensional WS₂/tetracene heterostructures

Journal Article · Fri Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Science Advances

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao3104· OSTI ID:1499924

^[1];

^[1]; Zhao, Yan ^[1];

^[1];

^[1]

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Charge-transfer (CT) excitons at heterointerfaces play a critical role in light to electricity conversion using organic and nanostructured materials. However, how CT excitons migrate at these interfaces is poorly understood. We investigate the formation and transport of CT excitons in two-dimensional WS₂/tetracene van der Waals heterostructures. Electron and hole transfer occurs on the time scale of a few picoseconds, and emission of interlayer CT excitons with a binding energy of ~0.3 eV has been observed. Transport of the CT excitons is directly measured by transient absorption microscopy, revealing coexistence of delocalized and localized states. Trapping-detrapping dynamics between the delocalized and localized states leads to stretched-exponential photoluminescence decay with an average lifetime of ~2 ns. The delocalized CT excitons are remarkably mobile with a diffusion constant of ~1 cm² s^-1. These highly mobile CT excitons could have important implications in achieving efficient charge separation.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0016356

OSTI ID:: 1499924

Journal Information:: Science Advances, Vol. 4, Issue 1; ISSN 2375-2548

Publisher:: AAASCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 104 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (52)

Charge Transfer Excitons at van der Waals Interfaces Zhu, Xiaoyang; Monahan, Nicholas R.; Gong, Zizhou Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 26 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b03141	journal	June 2015
A Model of Charge-Transfer Excitons: Diffusion, Spin Dynamics, and Magnetic Field Effects Lee, Chee Kong; Shi, Liang; Willard, Adam P. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00871	journal	May 2016
Visualizing excitations at buried heterojunctions in organic semiconductor blends Jakowetz, Andreas C.; Böhm, Marcus L.; Sadhanala, Aditya Nature Materials, Vol. 16, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4865	journal	February 2017
Mixed-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures Jariwala, Deep; Marks, Tobin J.; Hersam, Mark C. Nature Materials, Vol. 16, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4703	journal	August 2016
Vertical field-effect transistor based on graphene–WS2 heterostructures for flexible and transparent electronics Georgiou, Thanasis; Jalil, Rashid; Belle, Branson D. Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2012.224	journal	December 2012
Nonradiative Resonant Excitation Transfer from Nanocrystal Quantum Dots to Adjacent Quantum Channels Lu, Siyuan; Madhukar, Anupam Nano Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1021/nl0719731	journal	November 2007
Drift mobility of holes in crystalline tetracene Berrehar, J.; Delannoy, P.; Schotta, M. physica status solidi (b), Vol. 77, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.2220770247	journal	October 1976
Probing charge transfer excitons in a MoSe ₂ –WS ₂ van der Waals heterostructure Ceballos, Frank; Bellus, Matthew Z.; Chiu, Hsin-Ying Nanoscale, Vol. 7, Issue 41 https://doi.org/10.1039/C5NR04723D	journal	January 2015
Reduced Dielectric Screening and Enhanced Energy Transfer in Single- and Few-Layer MoS ₂ Prins, Ferry; Goodman, Aaron J.; Tisdale, William A. Nano Letters, Vol. 14, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1021/nl5019386	journal	October 2014
Nanoscale transport of charge-transfer states in organic donor–acceptor blends Deotare, P. B.; Chang, W.; Hontz, E. Nature Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4424	journal	September 2015
Hybrid, Gate-Tunable, van der Waals p–n Heterojunctions from Pentacene and MoS ₂ Jariwala, Deep; Howell, Sarah L.; Chen, Kan-Sheng Nano Letters, Vol. 16, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04141	journal	December 2015
Separation of geminate charge-pairs at donor–acceptor interfaces in disordered solids Peumans, Peter; Forrest, Stephen R. Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 398, Issue 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2004.09.030	journal	November 2004
Optical signature of symmetry variations and spin-valley coupling in atomically thin tungsten dichalcogenides Zeng, Hualing; Liu, Gui-Bin; Dai, Junfeng Scientific Reports, Vol. 3, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep01608	journal	April 2013
Single-crystal growth, structures, charge transfer and transport properties of anthracene-F ₄ TCNQ and tetracene-F ₄ TCNQ charge-transfer compounds Hu, Peng; Li, Henan; Li, Yongxin CrystEngComm, Vol. 19, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CE02116F	journal	January 2017
Strong interlayer coupling in van der Waals heterostructures built from single-layer chalcogenides Fang, H.; Battaglia, C.; Carraro, C. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 111, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1405435111	journal	April 2014
Probing Evolution of Twist-Angle-Dependent Interlayer Excitons in MoSe ₂ /WSe ₂ van der Waals Heterostructures Nayak, Pramoda K.; Horbatenko, Yevhen; Ahn, Seongjoon ACS Nano, Vol. 11, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b00640	journal	April 2017
Cooperative singlet and triplet exciton transport in tetracene crystals visualized by ultrafast microscopy Wan, Yan; Guo, Zhi; Zhu, Tong Nature Chemistry, Vol. 7, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2348	journal	September 2015
Van der Waals heterostructures Geim, A. K.; Grigorieva, I. V. Nature, Vol. 499, Issue 7459, p. 419-425 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12385	journal	July 2013
Ultrafast Exciton Dissociation and Long-Lived Charge Separation in a Photovoltaic Pentacene–MoS ₂ van der Waals Heterojunction Bettis Homan, Stephanie; Sangwan, Vinod K.; Balla, Itamar Nano Letters, Vol. 17, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03704	journal	December 2016
Energy Transfer from Quantum Dots to Graphene and MoS ₂ : The Role of Absorption and Screening in Two-Dimensional Materials Raja, Archana; Montoya−Castillo, Andrés; Zultak, Johanna Nano Letters, Vol. 16, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b05012	journal	March 2016
Valley-polarized exciton dynamics in a 2D semiconductor heterostructure Rivera, P.; Seyler, K. L.; Yu, H. Science, Vol. 351, Issue 6274 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac7820	journal	February 2016
Delocalization and dielectric screening of charge transfer states in organic photovoltaic cells Bernardo, B.; Cheyns, D.; Verreet, B. Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4245	journal	February 2014
Picosecond energy transfer and multiexciton transfer outpaces Auger recombination in binary CdSe nanoplatelet solids Rowland, Clare E.; Fedin, Igor; Zhang, Hui Nature Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4231	journal	March 2015
Epitaxial Growth of Molecular Crystals on van der Waals Substrates for High-Performance Organic Electronics Lee, Chul-Ho; Schiros, Theanne; Santos, Elton J. G. Advanced Materials, Vol. 26, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201304973	journal	January 2014
Twist-controlled resonant tunnelling in graphene/boron nitride/graphene heterostructures Mishchenko, A.; Tu, J. S.; Cao, Y. Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 9, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.187	journal	September 2014
Ultrafast charge transfer in atomically thin MoS2/WS2 heterostructures Hong, Xiaoping; Kim, Jonghwan; Shi, Su-Fei Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 9, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.167	journal	August 2014
Enhancement of photoresponsive electrical characteristics of multilayer MoS2 transistors using rubrene patches Cho, Eun Hei; Song, Won Geun; Park, Cheol Joon Nano Research, Vol. 8, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-014-0561-5	journal	September 2014
Hot charge-transfer excitons set the time limit for charge separation at donor/acceptor interfaces in organic photovoltaics Jailaubekov, Askat E.; Willard, Adam P.; Tritsch, John R. Nature Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3500	journal	December 2012
Efficient charge generation by relaxed charge-transfer states at organic interfaces Vandewal, Koen; Albrecht, Steve; Hoke, Eric T. Nature Materials, Vol. 13, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3807	journal	November 2013
Photoresponse of an Organic Semiconductor/Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterojunction Liu, Xiao; Gu, Jie; Ding, Kan Nano Letters, Vol. 17, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00695	journal	April 2017
Efficient Charge Separation of Cold Charge-Transfer States in Organic Solar Cells Through Incoherent Hopping Athanasopoulos, Stavros; Tscheuschner, Steffen; Bässler, Heinz The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 8, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00595	journal	April 2017
Field-Effect Tunneling Transistor Based on Vertical Graphene Heterostructures Britnell, L.; Gorbachev, R. V.; Jalil, R. Science, Vol. 335, Issue 6071 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1218461	journal	February 2012
Nonradiative Energy Transfer from Individual CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots to Single-Layer and Few-Layer Tin Disulfide Zang, Huidong; Routh, Prahlad K.; Huang, Yuan ACS Nano, Vol. 10, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b01538	journal	April 2016
Electrical Transport Properties of Single-Layer WS ₂ Ovchinnikov, Dmitry; Allain, Adrien; Huang, Ying-Sheng ACS Nano, Vol. 8, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1021/nn502362b	journal	July 2014
Interfacial Charge Transfer Circumventing Momentum Mismatch at Two-Dimensional van der Waals Heterojunctions Zhu, Haiming; Wang, Jue; Gong, Zizhou Nano Letters, Vol. 17, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00748	journal	May 2017
Near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield in MoS2 Amani, M.; Lien, D. -H.; Kiriya, D. Science, Vol. 350, Issue 6264 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad2114	journal	November 2015
Evolution of Electronic Structure in Atomically Thin Sheets of WS ₂ and WSe ₂ Zhao, Weijie; Ghorannevis, Zohreh; Chu, Leiqiang ACS Nano, Vol. 7, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1021/nn305275h	journal	December 2012
Highly efficient gate-tunable photocurrent generation in vertical heterostructures of layered materials Yu, Woo Jong; Liu, Yuan; Zhou, Hailong Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.219	journal	October 2013
Stretched-exponential decay of the luminescence in porous silicon Pavesi, Lorenzo; Ceschini, Matteo Physical Review B, Vol. 48, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.17625	journal	December 1993
Exciton dynamics and annihilation in WS ₂ 2D semiconductors Yuan, Long; Huang, Libai Nanoscale, Vol. 7, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1039/C5NR00383K	journal	January 2015
Exciton Binding Energy and Nonhydrogenic Rydberg Series in Monolayer ${WS}_{2}$ Chernikov, Alexey; Berkelbach, Timothy C.; Hill, Heather M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 113, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.076802	journal	August 2014
Coherent ultrafast charge transfer in an organic photovoltaic blend Falke, S. M.; Rozzi, C. A.; Brida, D. Science, Vol. 344, Issue 6187 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1249771	journal	May 2014
Determination of band offsets, hybridization, and exciton binding in 2D semiconductor heterostructures Wilson, Neil R.; Nguyen, Paul V.; Seyler, Kyle Science Advances, Vol. 3, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601832	journal	February 2017
Interlayer orientation-dependent light absorption and emission in monolayer semiconductor stacks Heo, Hoseok; Sung, Ji Ho; Cha, Soonyoung Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8372	journal	June 2015
Observation of long-lived interlayer excitons in monolayer MoSe2–WSe2 heterostructures Rivera, Pasqual; Schaibley, John R.; Jones, Aaron M. Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7242	journal	February 2015
Coherent ultrafast charge transfer in an organic photovoltaic blend De Sio, Antonietta; Falke, Sarah M.; Rozzi, Carlo A. 19th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena https://doi.org/10.1364/up.2014.10.thu.e.3	conference	January 2014
Visualizing excitations at buried heterojunctions in organic semiconductor blends Jakowetz, Andreas; Böhm, Ml; Sadhanala, Aditya Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.8771	text	January 2017
Evolution of Electronic Structure in Atomically Thin Sheets of WS2 and WSe2 Zhao, Weijie; Ghorannevis, Zohreh; Chua, Leiqiang arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1212.5415	text	January 2012
Reduced dielectric screening and enhanced energy transfer in single and few-layer MoS2 Prins, Ferry; Goodman, Aaron J.; Tisdale, William A. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1408.1501	text	January 2014
Electrical Transport Properties of Single-Layer WS2 Ovchinnikov, Dmitry; Allain, Adrien; Huang, Ying-Sheng arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1408.4906	text	January 2014
Twist-controlled resonant tunnelling in graphene-boron nitride-graphene heterostructures Mishchenko, A.; Tu, J. S.; Cao, Y. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1409.2263	text	January 2014
Mixed-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures Jariwala, Deep; Marks, Tobin J.; Hersam, Mark C. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1608.00515	text	January 2016

Cited By (8)

Synthesis of Sulfur-Hybridized Pyracylene and the Unexpected Phenyl Shift Mediated Rearrangement of Scholl Reaction: Synthesis of Sulfur-Hybridized Pyracylene and the Unexpected Phenyl Shift Mediated Rearrangement of Scholl Reaction Liu, Shuli; Huang, Chengting; Zhang, Jing European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 2019, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201900344	journal	May 2019
A Facile and Effective Method for Patching Sulfur Vacancies of WS ₂ via Nitrogen Plasma Treatment Jiang, Jianfeng; Zhang, Qinghua; Wang, Aizhu Small, Vol. 15, Issue 36 https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201901791	journal	June 2019
Long-range exciton transport and slow annihilation in two-dimensional hybrid perovskites Deng, Shibin; Shi, Enzheng; Yuan, Long Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14403-z	journal	January 2020
Molecular engineering of organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites quantum wells Gao, Yao; Shi, Enzheng; Deng, Shibin Nature Chemistry, Vol. 11, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0354-2	journal	November 2019
Transient absorption microscopy: Technological innovations and applications in materials science and life science Zhu, Yifan; Cheng, Ji-Xin The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 152, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5129123	journal	January 2020
Long-lived charge separation in two-dimensional ligand-perovskite heterostructures Deng, Shibin; Snaider, Jordan M.; Gao, Yao The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 152, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5131801	journal	January 2020
Ultrafast measurements of the dynamics of single nanostructures: a review Beane, Gary; Devkota, Tuphan; Brown, Brendan S. Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 82, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/aaea4b	journal	November 2018
Biexciton Auger Recombination Differs in Hybrid and Inorganic Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots Eperon, Giles E.; Jedlicka, Erin; Ginger, David S. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02805	journal	December 2017

Figures / Tables (4)

Similar Records

Photocarrier generation from interlayer charge-transfer transitions in WS₂-graphene heterostructures

Journal Article · Fri Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Science Advances · OSTI ID:1499924

Yuan, Long; Chung, Ting-Fung; Kuc, Agnieszka; +5 more

Effective Modulation of Interlayer Excitons in WSe₂/WS₂ Heterostructures by Plasmon–Exciton Interaction

Journal Article · Wed Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2024 · ACS Photonics · OSTI ID:1499924

Zheng, Ting; Zhao, Xinwei; Yang, Fang; +4 more

Efficient interlayer electron transfer in a MoTe₂/WS₂/MoS₂ trilayer heterostructure

Journal Article · Mon Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Applied Physics Letters · OSTI ID:1499924

Pan, Shudi; Valencia-Acuna, Pavel; Kong, Weijin; +4 more

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Title: Highly mobile charge-transfer excitons in two-dimensional WS2/tetracene heterostructures

Citation Formats