TY - JOUR
AU - Fu, Shuai
AU - Huang, Xing
AU - Gao, Guoquan
AU - St. Petkov, Petko
AU - Gao, Wenpei
AU - Zhang, Jianjun
AU - Gao, Lei
AU - Zhang, Heng
AU - Liu, Min
AU - Hambsch, Mike
AU - Zhang, Wenjie
AU - Zhang, Jiaxu
AU - Li, Keming
AU - Kaiser, Ute
AU - Parkin, Stuart S. P.
AU - Mannsfeld, Stefan
AU - Zhu, Tong
AU - Wang, Hai I.
AU - Wang, Zhiyong
AU - Dong, Renhao
AU - Feng, Xinliang
AU - Bonn, Mischa
TI - Unveiling high-mobility hot carriers in a two-dimensional conjugated coordination polymer
JO - Nature materials
VL - XX
SN - 1476-1122
CY - Basingstoke
PB - Nature Publishing Group
M1 - PUBDB-2025-01623
SP - 1
PY - 2025
N1 - online first
AB - Hot carriers, inheriting excess kinetic energy from high-energy photons, drive numerous optoelectronic applications reliant on non-equilibrium transport processes. Although extensively studied in inorganic materials, their potential in organic-based systems remains largely unexplored. Here we demonstrate highly mobile hot carriers in crystalline two-dimensional conjugated coordination polymer Cu3BHT (BHT, benzenehexathiol) films. Leveraging a suite of ultrafast spectroscopic and imaging techniques, we map the microscopic charge transport landscape in Cu3BHT films following non-equilibrium photoexcitation across temporal, spatial and frequency domains, revealing two distinct high-mobility transport regimes. In the non-equilibrium regime, hot carriers achieve an ultrahigh mobility of 2,000 cm2 V–1 s–1, traversing grain boundaries up to 300 nm within a picosecond. In the quasi-equilibrium regime, free carriers exhibit Drude-type, band-like transport with a remarkable mobility of 400 cm2 V–1 s–1 and an intrinsic diffusion length exceeding 1 μm. These findings position two-dimensional conjugated coordination polymers as versatile platforms for advancing organic-based hot carrier applications.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO - DOI:10.1038/s41563-025-02246-2
UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/627840
ER -