Tunable electronic energy level alignment and exciton diversity in organic-inorganic van der Waals heterostructures

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Autori principali: Champagne, Aurélie, Adeniran, Olugbenga, Haber, Jonah B., Alvertis, Antonios M., Liu, Zhen-Fei, Neaton, Jeffrey B.
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author Champagne, Aurélie
Adeniran, Olugbenga
Haber, Jonah B.
Alvertis, Antonios M.
Liu, Zhen-Fei
Neaton, Jeffrey B.
author_facet Champagne, Aurélie
Adeniran, Olugbenga
Haber, Jonah B.
Alvertis, Antonios M.
Liu, Zhen-Fei
Neaton, Jeffrey B.
contents van der Waals stacking of two-dimensional (2D) materials offers a powerful platform for engineering material interfaces with tailored electronic and optical properties. While most van der Waals multilayers have featured inorganic monolayers, incorporating molecular monolayers introduces new degrees of tunability and functionality. Here, we investigate hybrid bilayers composed of atomically thin perylene-based molecular crystals interfaced with monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), specifically MoS2 and WS2. Using ab initio many-body perturbation theory within the GW approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter equation approach, we predict emergent properties beyond those of the isolated constituent systems. Notably, we find substantial renormalization of monolayer molecular crystal band gap due to TMD-induced polarization. Furthermore, by varying the TMD monolayer, we demonstrate tuning of the energy level alignment of the bilayer and subsequent control over a diversity of lowest-energy excitons, which include strongly bound hybrid excitons and long-lived charge-transfer excitons. These findings establish organic-inorganic van der Waals heterostructures as a promising class of materials for tunable optoelectronic devices and quantum excitonic phenomena, expanding the design space for low-dimensional systems.
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spellingShingle Tunable electronic energy level alignment and exciton diversity in organic-inorganic van der Waals heterostructures
Champagne, Aurélie
Adeniran, Olugbenga
Haber, Jonah B.
Alvertis, Antonios M.
Liu, Zhen-Fei
Neaton, Jeffrey B.
Materials Science
Chemical Physics
Computational Physics
van der Waals stacking of two-dimensional (2D) materials offers a powerful platform for engineering material interfaces with tailored electronic and optical properties. While most van der Waals multilayers have featured inorganic monolayers, incorporating molecular monolayers introduces new degrees of tunability and functionality. Here, we investigate hybrid bilayers composed of atomically thin perylene-based molecular crystals interfaced with monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), specifically MoS2 and WS2. Using ab initio many-body perturbation theory within the GW approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter equation approach, we predict emergent properties beyond those of the isolated constituent systems. Notably, we find substantial renormalization of monolayer molecular crystal band gap due to TMD-induced polarization. Furthermore, by varying the TMD monolayer, we demonstrate tuning of the energy level alignment of the bilayer and subsequent control over a diversity of lowest-energy excitons, which include strongly bound hybrid excitons and long-lived charge-transfer excitons. These findings establish organic-inorganic van der Waals heterostructures as a promising class of materials for tunable optoelectronic devices and quantum excitonic phenomena, expanding the design space for low-dimensional systems.
title Tunable electronic energy level alignment and exciton diversity in organic-inorganic van der Waals heterostructures
topic Materials Science
Chemical Physics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05267