Photoluminescence, photophysics, and photochemistry of the v B- defect in hexagonal boron nitride
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- AMER PHYSICAL SOC
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Physical Review B, 2020, 102, (14)
- Issue Date:
- 2020-10-12
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© 2020 American Physical Society. Extensive photochemical and spectroscopic properties of the VB- defect in hexagonal boron nitride are calculated, concluding that the observed photoemission associated with recently observed optically detected magnetic resonance is most likely of (1)3E′′→(1)3A2′ origin. Rapid intersystem crossing from the defect's triplet to singlet manifolds explains the observed short excited-state lifetime and very low quantum yield. New experimental results reveal smaller intrinsic spectral bandwidths than previously recognized, interpreted in terms of spectral narrowing and zero-phonon-line shifting induced by the Jahn-Teller effect. Different types of computational methods are applied to map out the complex triplet and singlet defect manifolds, including the doubly ionized formulation of the equation-of-motion coupled-cluster theory that is designed to deal with the open-shell nature of defect states, and mixed quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics schemes enabling 5763-atom simulations. Two other energetically feasible spectral assignments from among the singlet and triplet manifolds are considered, but ruled out based on inappropriate photochemical properties.
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