van der Waals Metal-Organic Framework as an Excitonic Material for Advanced Photonics

Valentin A Milichko; Sergey V Makarov; Alexey V Yulin; Alexandr V Vinogradov; Andrei A Krasilin; Elena Ushakova; Vladimir P Dzyuba; Evamarie Hey-Hawkins; Evgeny A Pidko; Pavel A Belov

doi:10.1002/adma.201606034

van der Waals Metal-Organic Framework as an Excitonic Material for Advanced Photonics

Adv Mater. 2017 Mar;29(12). doi: 10.1002/adma.201606034. Epub 2017 Jan 23.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia.
² International Laboratory "Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies", ITMO University, St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia.
³ Department of Optical Physics and Modern Natural Science, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia.
⁴ Institute of Automation and Control Processes FEB RAS, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia.
⁵ Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Leipzig University, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany.
⁶ Inorganic Materials Chemistry Group and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600, MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

PMID: 28112457
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201606034

Abstract

Synergistic combination of organic and inorganic nature in van der Waals metal-organic frameworks supports different types of robust excitons that can be effectively and independently manipulated by light at room temperature, and opens new concepts for all-optical data processing and storage.

Keywords: excitons; metal-organic frameworks; optical nonlinearity; van der Waals structures.