Low-energy intralayer phonon assisted carrier recombination in Z-scheme van der Waals heterostructures for photocatalysis

Abstract

Establishing the coupling mechanism of hot carriers and phonons is at the heart of nanoelectronics and photocatalyst of vdW heterostructures. Herein, via ab initio simulations, we endeavor to examine the...

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