Researchers Create New LED from “Multi-Particle Exciton Complexes”

A research team at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) developed a new kind of LED which generates light from the radiative decay of exciton complexes in extremely thin layers.
Researchers produced what they called as “multi-particle exciton complexes” by applying electrical pulses to extremely thin layers of material made from tungsten and selenium or sulphur. These exciton clusters are bonding states made up of electrons and “holes” in the material and can be converted into light. The result is an innovative form of light-emitting diode in which the wavelength of the desired light can be controlled with high precision. The finding was published in the journal “Nature Communications.”

(Aday Molina Mendoza, Matthias Paur, Thomas Müller; Image: TU Wien)

Electrons and holes
In a semiconductor material, electrical charge can be transported in two different ways. On the one hand, electrons can move straight through the material from atom to atom in which case they take negative charge with them. On the other hand, if an electron is missing somewhere in the semiconductor that point will be positively charged and referred to as a “hole”. If an electron moves up from a neighboring atom and fills the hole, it in turn leaves a hole in its previous position. That way, holes can move through the material in a similar manner to electrons but in the opposite direction.
“Under certain circumstances, holes and electrons can bond to each other,” said Prof. Thomas Mueller from the Photonics Institute (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) at TU Wien. “Similar to how an electron orbits the positively charged atomic nucleus in a hydrogen atom, an electron can orbit the positively charged hole in a solid object.”
Complex bonding states with trions, biexcitons or quintons which involve three, four or five bonding partners are also possible. “For example, the biexciton is the exciton equivalent of the hydrogen molecule H2,” explained Thomas Mueller.

(Image: TU Wien)

Two-dimensional layers
In most solids, such bonding states are only possible at extremely low temperatures. However the situation is different with so-called “two-dimensional materials”, which consist only of atom-thin layers. The team at TU Wien, whose members also included Matthias Paur and Aday Molina-Mendoza, has created a cleverly designed sandwich structure in which a thin layer of tungsten diselenide or tungsten disulphide is locked in between two boron nitride layers. An electrical charge can be applied to this ultra-thin layer system with the help of graphene electrodes.
“The excitons have a much higher bonding energy in two-dimensional layered systems than in conventional solids and are therefore considerably more stable. Simple bonding states consisting of electrons and holes can be demonstrated even at room temperature. Large, exciton complexes can be detected at low temperatures,” reported Thomas Mueller. Different excitons complexes can be produced depending on how the system is supplied with electrical energy using short voltage pulses. When these complexes decay, they release energy in the form of light which is how the newly developed layer system works as a light-emitting diode.
“Our luminous layer system not only represents a great opportunity to study excitons, but is also an innovative light source,” says Matthias Paur, lead author of the study. “We therefore now have a light-emitting diode whose wavelength can be specifically influenced – and very easily too, simply via changing the shape of the electrical pulse applied.”

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