{"title":"Controlling Structural Dimensionality in 2D Perovskites through A-Site Cation Enrichment","authors":"Zhongqi Xie,Pingyuan Yan,Hou Wang,Heng Li,Qing-Song Jiang,Xiao Yang,Chuanxiang Sheng","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c02668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c02668","url":null,"abstract":"Two-dimensional (2D) Ruddlesden–Popper (RP) lead halide perovskites exhibit tunable structures, compositions, and optoelectronic properties, yet achieving precise control over their structural dimensionality in solution-processed thin films remains a significant challenge. Here, we report a simple strategy to regulate the dimensionality of 2D RP perovskites by enriching the A-site cations (FA+/Cs+) in the precursor solution, where FA = formamidinium. Based on a nominal n = 3 composition, systematic increase of the A-site cation ratio yields films with the general formula (4FPEA)2(FA0.3xCs0.7x)2Pb3X8+2x (X = I, Br; x = 1.5–3.0), where 4FPEA = 4-fluorophenylethylammonium. Within an optimal range, excess A-site cations promote the progressive formation of smaller-n phases without compromising film quality or triggering bulk three-dimensional (3D) perovskite formation. This tuning the n-value distribution effect is evidenced by UV–vis absorption, X-ray diffraction (XRD), steady-state photoluminescence (PL), and femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS). As the A-site enrichment increases, the dominant phases shift from mixed high-n (quasi-3D) toward lower-n phases and energy funneling to large-n phases is suppressed, resulting in a continuous blue shift of the PL emission─from red to green for iodide-based perovskites and from green to blue for bromide-based analogues. This A-site stoichiometry engineering approach provides a straightforward, scalable route for tailoring the structural dimensionality and emission color of 2D perovskites via solution processing, with potential applications in light-emitting diodes and other optoelectronic devices.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrochemical State Reconfiguration in Vertical Opto-ionic Transistors for Adaptive Optoelectronic Computing","authors":"Xiaolong Li,Yang Liu,Xinmu Chen,Zihong Yang,Yujie Yang,Yali Yu,Jiayang Jiang,Yu Zhang,Yufeng Hu,Feng Teng","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c02980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c02980","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to dynamically reconfigure a single device between sensing and computing functions could fundamentally simplify in-sensor vision architectures, yet achieving electrically programmable transitions between volatile photodetection and persistent synaptic processing remains challenging. Here, we establish an electrochemical state-reconfiguration strategy in a vertical opto-ionic electrochemical transistor (VOET) that enables reversible transformation between these two information-processing modes. The VOET integrates a porous sol–gel-derived ZnO semiconductor with an ionic-liquid gate in a vertically stacked multifinger architecture, enabling efficient volumetric electrochemical doping and coupling ionic dynamics with electronic transport throughout the channel. In the undoped state, the device exhibits volatile ultraviolet photodetection with an ON/OFF current ratio of 6 × 103, a responsivity of 132 mA/W, and a peak shot-noise-limited specific detectivity of 3.9 × 1010 Jones. Electrochemical ion doping switches the same transistor into a persistent photoconductive state, enabling nonvolatile optoelectronic synaptic operation with a post-tetanic potentiation index of up to 1100% and multidimensional spike-dependent plasticity governed by stimulus rate, duration, number, and intensity. Neural-network simulations using experimentally measured synaptic characteristics further demonstrate handwritten-digit recognition. These results reveal electrochemical state reconfiguration as a route to programmable transformation of transistor functionality, providing a compact platform for adaptive optoelectronic sensing, memory, and neuromorphic computing.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"295 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narayan Kundu,Ayan Bhowmick,Aryya Ghosh,Dhananjay Nandi,Sourav Pal
{"title":"Dark-State-Mediated\u0000Low-Energy Electron Attachment\u0000to Molecular Oxygen: Symmetry Adapted Decomposition of the DEA Resonance\u0000through Dyson-Orbitals’ Incoherent Mixing","authors":"Narayan Kundu,Ayan Bhowmick,Aryya Ghosh,Dhananjay Nandi,Sourav Pal","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c02057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c02057","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Dissociative electron attachment (DEA) to O2 exhibits a prominent resonance peak at ∼6.5 eV, producing O– with a single kinetic energy band (∼1.5 eV) and a distinct four-lobed angular distribution. Using velocity-map imaging and complex absorbing potential equation-of-motion electron-attachment coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CAP-EOM-EA-CCSD) calculations, we notice that this resonance is mediated by electron-impact excitation to the optically dark a1Δg and b1Σg+ states, which suggests electron impact excitation to these optically dark excited states provides an appropriate electronic structure for electron attachment forming 2Πu, 2Πg and 2,4Σu Feshbach resonances. The measured angular distribution is reproduced by an incoherent superposition of three symmetry channels: 2Πu (66.5%); 2Πg (25.1%); and 2,4Σu (8.5%). The Dyson orbitals computed from the CAP-EOM-EA-CCSD calculations quantitatively reproduce the channel weights and their energy dependencies. This dark-state-mediated mechanism pinpointedly resolves the experimental observations and provides a general symmetry-adapted framework for decomposing DEA resonances from the fragmented anions angular distributions.","PeriodicalId":62,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.475,"publicationDate":"2026-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}