Light-Emitting Low-Dimensional Organic Metal Halide Hybrids
Biwu Ma a
a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 32306 Florida, United States
Proceedings of Emerging Light Emitting Materials 2026 (EMLEM26)
Kallithea, Greece, 2026 September 20th - 23rd
Organizers: Grigorios Itskos and Maksym Kovalenko
Invited Speaker, Biwu Ma, presentation 027
Publication date: 8th July 2026

Low-dimensional (LD) organic metal halide hybrids (OMHHs) have emerged as a highly versatile class of solution-processable light-emitting materials with exceptional structural and optical tunability. Through rational selection of organic cations and metal halide building blocks, their dimensionality can be precisely controlled at the molecular level to form zero-dimensional (0D), one-dimensional (1D), and two-dimensional (2D) structures, providing a powerful platform for tailoring electronic structures, exciton dynamics, and light-emission properties. Unlike conventional metal halide perovskites, the rich organic-inorganic chemistry of LD OMHHs enables emissions to originate from either the organic cations or the metal halide components, depending on their relative energy alignment. Consequently, emission colors can be continuously tuned across the entire visible spectrum, exhibiting either narrow-band or broadband luminescence with photoluminescence quantum efficiencies approaching unity. Furthermore, the radiative decay lifetimes can be engineered over an exceptionally broad range, from nanoseconds for organic-cation-centered fluorescence to microseconds and milliseconds for metal-halide-centered phosphorescence and self-trapped exciton emission. In this talk, I will present our recent advances in the molecular design, synthetic control, and photophysical understanding of luminescent LD OMHHs. By engineering organic-inorganic interactions, crystal packing, and excited-state processes, we achieve precise control over emission color, bandwidth, lifetime, and efficiency while establishing fundamental structure-property relationships. I will also discuss recent developments in chiral LD OMHHs exhibiting circularly polarized luminescence, as well as strategies for integrating these materials into high-performance optoelectronic devices, such as light-emitting diodes and radiation scintillators.

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