• 文献标题:   Role of edge nitrogen doping in nonradiative decay dynamics of graphene quantum dots: a Fermi's golden rule analysis
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CUI P, XUE Y
  • 作者关键词:   graphene quantum dot, nonradiative decay, nitrogen doping, huangrhys factor
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED NANOSCIENCE
  • ISSN:   2190-5509 EI 2190-5517
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  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1007/s13204-021-02239-y EA NOV 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots (NGQDs) are appealing materials for light-emitting devices due to their chemical stability, high quantum yield, and tunable electronics. However, the complex N-doping configurations greatly impede the development and applications of NGQDs for optoelectronics. In the current work, we perform density functional theory calculations to investigate the electronic, optical, and nonradiative properties of NGQDs bearing various N functionalities, based on Fermi's golden rule principle. Our results show that the pyrazole and pyrrolic N induce the hybridization in both occupied and unoccupied energy levels, reducing the band gaps and redshift absorption spectra of the NGQDs. The pyrrolic N increases the electron localization in NGQDs, leading to larger electron-phonon coupling, which, accordingly, increases the effective Huang-Rhys factor that contributes to a very efficient nonradiative decay. On the contrary, the NGQD-bearing pyridinic N exhibits the most inefficient nonradiative decay among all NGQDs because of the large optical gap, small solvent reorganization energy, and electronic coupling.