Nanomaterials for Optoelectronics - Group Prof. Dr. Jana Zaumseil
TRIFECTs
ERC Consolidator Grant Project (2019 – 2024):
TRIons and sp3-DeFECTs in Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes for Optoelectronics: TRIFECTS
Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) combine solution-processability, large carrier mobilities, narrow emission linewidths and environmental stability for optoelectronic devices with light-emission in the near-infrared (800-1800 nm, e.g., for optical data communication and bio-imaging) when sorted by (n,m) species. The recent availability of highly pure, monochiral semiconducting SWNTs as bulk materials allows us to employ and further tailor their charge transport and light emission properties and thus enables their application in practical devices. Two new emissive species - charged excitons (trions) and bright sp3-defects - were recently discovered in SWNTs and have fundamentally changed our notions about SWNT luminescence. Both show red-shifted, narrow and enhanced emission. However, very little is yet known about their photophysical properties and especially their interactions with each other and their environment (e.g., in devices). Their emissive properties could potentially be tailored by external magnetic fields, dielectric environment and additional functional groups. Strong light-matter coupling in suitable optical cavities could be applied to create trion-polaritons in SWNTs as new low-mass charge carriers in polaritonic devices. Trions and emissive sp3-defects are not limited to SWNTs and hence these concepts could be transferred and applied to other low-dimensional semiconductors.
Project Team:
- Prof. Jana Zaumseil
- Dr. Abdurrahman Ali El Yumin „Alumnus 2023"
- MSc. Felix Berger „Alumnus 2021"
- MSc. Sebastian Lindenthal
- MSc. Finn Sebastian
- MSc. Simon Settele „Alumnus 2024"
- MSc. Sonja Wieland „Alumna 2023"
- MSc. Nicolas Zorn „Alumnus 2023"
Publications:
Settele, S.; Stammer, F.; Sebastian, F. L.; Lindenthal, S.; Wald, S. R.; Li, H.; Flavel, B. S.; Zaumseil, J.
ACS Nano 2024,18, 20667-20678. Open Access LINK
Wieland, S.; El Yumin, A. A.; Settele, S.; Zaumseil, J.
J. Phys. Chem. C 2024, 128, 2012–2021. Open Access LINK
Settele, S.; Schrage, C. A.; Jung, S.; Michel, E.; Li, H.; Flavel, B. S.; Hashmi, A. S. K.; Kruss, S.; Zaumseil, J.
Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 706. Open Access LINK
Lindenthal, S.; Settele, S.; Hellmann, J.; Schmitt, K.; Zaumseil, J.
A Hands-on Guide to Shear Force Mixing of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Conjugated Polymers.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.11654 2023. Open Access LINK
Sebastian, F. L.; Becker, F.; Yomogida, Y.; Hosokawa, Y.; Settele, S.; Lindenthal, S.; Yanagi, K.; Zaumseil, J.,
ACS Nano 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c07668 Open Access LINK
Zorn, N. F.; Settele, S.; Sebastian, F. L.; Lindenthal, S.; Zaumseil, J.,
Tuning Electroluminescence from Functionalized SWCNT Networks Further into the near-Infrared.
ACS Applied Optical Materials 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsaom.3c00261 Open Access LINK
Lindenthal, S.; Fazzi, D.; Zorn, N. F.; El Yumin, A. A.; Settele, S.; Weidinger, B.; Blasco, E.; Zaumseil, J.,
ACS Nano 2023, 17, 18240-18252. Open Access LINK
Zorn, N. F.; Settele, S.; Zhao, S.; Lindenthal, S.; El Yumin, A. A.; Wedl, T.; Li, H.; Flavel, B. S.; Högele, A.; Zaumseil, J.,
Adv. Opt. Mater. 2023, 2300236. Open Access LINK
Wieland, S.; El Yumin, A. A.; Gotthardt, J. M.; Zaumseil, J.
Impact of Dielectric Environment on Trion Emission from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Networks
J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127, 3112–3122. Open Access LINK
El Yumin, A. A.; Zorn, N. F.; Berger, F. J.; Heimfarth, D.; Zaumseil, J.
Carbon 2023, 202, 547-553. Open Access LINK
Zheng, W.; Zorn, N. F.; Bonn, M.; Zaumseil, J.; Wang, H. I.,
ACS Nano 2022, 16, 9401–9409. Open Access LINK
Sebastian, F. L.; Zorn, N. F.; Settele, S.; Lindenthal, S.; Berger, F. J.; Bendel, C.; Li, H.; Flavel, B. S.; Zaumseil, J.,
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2022, 13, 3542-3548. Open Access LINK
Lüttgens, J. M.; Kuang, Z.; Zorn, N. F.; Buckup, T.; Zaumseil, J.,
Evidence for a Polariton-Mediated Biexciton Transition in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.
ACS Photonics 2022, doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01590. Open Access LINK
Zaumseil, J.,
Luminescent Defects in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Applications.
Adv. Opt. Mater. 2022, 10, 2101576. (Hall of Fame) Open Access LINK
Zorn, N. F.; Zaumseil, J.,
Charge Transport in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Networks.
Applied Physics Reviews 2021, 8, 041318. Open Access LINK
Zorn, N. F.; Berger, F. J.; Zaumseil, J.,
Charge Transport in and Electroluminescence from sp3-Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Networks.
ACS Nano 2021, 15, 10451-10463. Open Access LINK
Settele, S.; Berger, F. J.; Lindenthal, S.; Zhao, S.; El Yumin, A. A.; Zorn, N. F.; Asyuda, A.; Zharnikov, M.; Högele, A.; Zaumseil, J.,
Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 2119. Open Access LINK
Berger, F. J.; de Sousa, J. A.; Zhao, S.; Zorn, N.F. ; El Yumin, A. A.; Quintana García, A.; Settele, S.; Högele, A.; Crivillers, N.; Zaumseil, J.,
ACS Nano 2021.15, 5147–5157. Open Access LINK
Lüttgens, J. M.; Berger, F. J.; Zaumseil, J.,
Population of Exciton–Polaritons Via Luminescent sp³ Defects in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.
ACS Photonics 2021, 8, 182-193. Open Access LINK
Zorn, N. F.; Scuratti, F.; Berger, F. J.; Perinot, A.; Heimfarth, D.; Caironi, M.; Zaumseil, J.
ACS Nano 2020, 14 (2) 2412-2423. Open Access LINK
Berger, F. J.; Lüttgens, J.; Nowack, T.; Kutsch, T.; Lindenthal, S.; Kistner, L.; Müller, C. C.; Bongartz, L. M.; Lumsargis, V. A.; Zakharko, Y.; Zaumseil, J.
Brightening of Long, Polymer-Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes by sp3 Functionalization in Organic Solvents
ACS Nano 2019, 13, 9259-9269. Open Access LINK
