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First-principles study of luminescence in hexagonal boron nitride single layer: exciton-phonon coupling and the role of substrate

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Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a wide band gap material with both strong excitonic light emission in the ultraviolet and strong exciton-phonon coupling. Luminescence experiments performed on the recently synthesized monolayer form (m-hBN) present emission spectra that differ from one another, with some suggesting a coexistence between phonon-assisted and direct emission channels. Motivated by these results, we investigated the optical response of (m-hBN) using an ab initio approach that takes into account the effects of atomic vibrations on the luminescence spectra. We construct the dynamical exciton-phonon self-energy, then use it to perturbatively correct the optical response functions and test this approach on bulk hBN as a benchmark. Within our approach we are able to estimate the renormalization of the direct peak induced by phonon-assisted transitions, and this allows us to accurately describe spectra where both processes are present. We found that the emission signal of m-hBN is strongly dependent on its interaction with the substrate, which changes its nature from direct to indirect material and modifies the screening felt by the electrons. We attribute the m-hBN emission signal to the bright direct excitons and consider the likelihood of phonon replicas appearing.

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hal-03909192 , version 1 (21-12-2022)

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Pierre Lechifflart, Fulvio Paleari, Davide Sangalli, Claudio Attaccalite. First-principles study of luminescence in hexagonal boron nitride single layer: exciton-phonon coupling and the role of substrate. Physical Review Materials, 2023, 7, pp.024006. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.024006⟩. ⟨hal-03909192⟩
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