Host-guest P2C9: a wide-band-gap two-dimensional semiconductor with appreciable electron mobility.

Two-dimensional wide-band-gap (2D WBG) semiconductors have attracted considerable interest due to their unique physical properties and potential applications. However, most existing 2D WBG semiconductors suffer from low carrier mobilities, which severely constrain their utility in electronic and optoelectronic devices. Inspired by the ultrahigh mobility arising from the delocalizedπ-electron network in graphene, we propose a design strategy that reconciles wide band gaps with efficient charge transport by confiningπelectrons into discrete C6rings embedded within a fullysp3-hybridized host framework. Following this concept, we successfully predict a P2C9monolayer featuring a direct band gap of 2.9 eV. Advanced carrier transport calculations, explicitly incorporating acoustic deformation potential, polar optical phonon, and ionized impurity scattering, yields an electron mobility of ∼153 cm2V-1s-1at an impurity concentration of 1010cm-2. Furthermore, excitonic calculations reveal a strongly bound exciton with a binding energy of 1.31 eV. These results demonstrate that the P2C9monolayer simultaneously achieves a WBG, appreciable mobility and robust excitonic effects, thereby establishingπ-bond isolation as the promising strategy for designing 2D WBG semiconductors.