Interlayer coupling prolonged the photogenerated carrier lifetime of few layered Bi2 OS2 semiconductors

Nanoscale
Xianghong NiuJinlan Wang

Abstract

Layered semiconductors with broad photoabsorption, a long carrier lifetime and high carrier mobility are of crucial importance for high-performance optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices; however it is hard to satisfy these requirements simultaneously in a system due to the opposite dependence on the layer thickness. Herein, by means of ab initio time-domain nonadiabatic molecular dynamic simulations, we find a new mechanism in Bi2OS2 nanosheets inducing an anomalous layer-dependent property of carrier lifetimes, which makes the few layered Bi2OS2 a possible system for fulfilling the above requirements concurrently. It is revealed that the interlayer dipole-dipole interaction in few layered Bi2OS2 effectively breaks the two-fold degenerate orbitals of [BiS2] layers, which not only cuts down the overlap of the electron and hole wave functions, but also accelerates the electron decoherence process. This significantly suppresses the electron-hole recombination and prolongs the photogenerated carrier lifetime of few layered Bi2OS2. The mechanism unveiled here paves a possible way for developing advanced optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices through engineering interlayer dipole-dipole coupling.

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