Tunable Interlayer Excitons in Bilayer Graphene Nanoribbons

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Autori principali: Rocha, Alexandre R., Amorim, Rodrigo G., Scopel, Wanderlã L., Villegas, Cesar E. P.
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author Rocha, Alexandre R.
Amorim, Rodrigo G.
Scopel, Wanderlã L.
Villegas, Cesar E. P.
author_facet Rocha, Alexandre R.
Amorim, Rodrigo G.
Scopel, Wanderlã L.
Villegas, Cesar E. P.
contents Vertically stacked van der Waals structures are promising platforms that enable layer engineering, opening new avenues for the quantum control of elementary excitations, including optically generated bound electron-hole pairs. Here we employ excited-state density functional calculations to demonstrate strong interlayer excitonic coupling in one-dimensional van der Waals nanostructures derived from armchair graphene nanoribbons. The excitonic response exhibits prominent peaks in the near-infrared range, mainly attributed to intralayer excitons, while interlayer excitations with absorption peak strengths of up to 13\% of the maximum absorption are also observed. Both type-I and type-II band alignments are found, which promote the formation of intralayer and interlayer excitons. Notably, interlayer excitons in these systems exhibit long-lived radiative lifetimes at room temperature, ranging from 1 nanosecond to 9.4 microseconds. Our calculations suggest the potential to tune the excitonic response and lifetimes of bilayer graphene nanoribbons via careful engineering of the stacking order.
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spellingShingle Tunable Interlayer Excitons in Bilayer Graphene Nanoribbons
Rocha, Alexandre R.
Amorim, Rodrigo G.
Scopel, Wanderlã L.
Villegas, Cesar E. P.
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Vertically stacked van der Waals structures are promising platforms that enable layer engineering, opening new avenues for the quantum control of elementary excitations, including optically generated bound electron-hole pairs. Here we employ excited-state density functional calculations to demonstrate strong interlayer excitonic coupling in one-dimensional van der Waals nanostructures derived from armchair graphene nanoribbons. The excitonic response exhibits prominent peaks in the near-infrared range, mainly attributed to intralayer excitons, while interlayer excitations with absorption peak strengths of up to 13\% of the maximum absorption are also observed. Both type-I and type-II band alignments are found, which promote the formation of intralayer and interlayer excitons. Notably, interlayer excitons in these systems exhibit long-lived radiative lifetimes at room temperature, ranging from 1 nanosecond to 9.4 microseconds. Our calculations suggest the potential to tune the excitonic response and lifetimes of bilayer graphene nanoribbons via careful engineering of the stacking order.
title Tunable Interlayer Excitons in Bilayer Graphene Nanoribbons
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10887