Near-Isotropic Local Attosecond Charge Transfer within the Anisotropic Puckered Layers of Black Phosphorus.

Autor: Haverkamp R; Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, Berlin 12489, Germany.; Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24/25, Potsdam 14476, Germany., Neppl S; Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, Berlin 12489, Germany.; Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24/25, Potsdam 14476, Germany., Föhlisch A; Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, Berlin 12489, Germany.; Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24/25, Potsdam 14476, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The journal of physical chemistry letters [J Phys Chem Lett] 2023 Oct 05; Vol. 14 (39), pp. 8765-8770. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 22.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01977
Abstrakt: Black phosphorus possesses useful two-dimensional (2D) characteristics of van der Waals coupled materials but additionally features an in-plane anisotropic puckered layer structure that deviates from common 2D materials. Three distinct directions exist within the lattice of black phosphorus: the in-plane armchair and zigzag directions and the out-of-plane direction, with each distinct phosphorus 3p partial density of states. This structural anisotropy is imprinted onto various collective long-range properties, while the extent to which local electronic processes are governed by this directionality is unclear. At the P L 1 edge, the directional selectivity of the core-hole clock method was used to probe the local charge transfer dynamics of electrons excited into the 3p-derived conduction band on an attosecond time scale. Here we show that the surprisingly small anisotropy of 3p electron transfer times reflects the similarly small differences in the 3p-derived unoccupied density of states caused by the underlying phosphorus bonding angles within the puckered layers.
Databáze: MEDLINE