Ligand field exciton annihilation in bulk CrCl3

Sridhar, Samanvitha; Khansari, Ario; O’Donnell, Shaun; Barth, Alexandra T.; Danilov, Evgeny O.; Castellano, Felix N.; Maggard, Paul A.; Dougherty, Daniel B.

doi:10.1063/5.0223772

Title: Ligand field exciton annihilation in bulk CrCl₃

Journal Article · 18 September 2024 · Journal of Chemical Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0223772 · OSTI ID:2455001

Sridhar, Samanvitha ^[1];

^[2]; O’Donnell, Shaun ^[2];

^[2]; Danilov, Evgeny O. ^[2];

^[2]; Maggard, Paul A. ^[2];

^[2]

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States); North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)

The layered van der Waals material CrCl₃ exhibits very strongly bound ligand field excitons that control optoelectronic applications and are connected with magnetic ordering by virtue of their d-orbital origin. Time-resolved photoluminescence of these exciton populations at room temperature shows that their relaxation is dominated by exciton–exciton annihilation and that the spontaneous decay lifetime is very long. Furthermore, these observations allow the rough quantification of the exciton annihilation rate constant and contextualization in light of a recent theory of universal scaling behavior of the annihilation process.

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Research Organization:: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011979

OSTI ID:: 2455001

Journal Information:: Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 161; ISSN 0021-9606

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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