Elucidation of perovskite film micro-orientations using two-photon total internal reflectance fluorescence microscopy

Watson, Brianna R.; Yang, Bin; Xiao, Kai; Ma, Ying -Zhong; Doughty, Benjamin L.; Calhoun, Tessa R.

doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01474

Title: Elucidation of perovskite film micro-orientations using two-photon total internal reflectance fluorescence microscopy

Journal Article · Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01474· OSTI ID:1214027

Watson, Brianna R. ^[1]; Yang, Bin ^[2]; Xiao, Kai ^[2]; Ma, Ying -Zhong ^[2]; Doughty, Benjamin L. ^[2]; Calhoun, Tessa R. ^[1]

Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The emergence of efficient hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite photovoltaic materials has caused the rapid development of a variety of preparation and processing techniques designed to maximize their performance. As processing methods continue to emerge, it is important to understand how the optical properties of these materials are affected on a microscopic scale. Here polarization resolved two-photon total internal reflectance microscopy (TIRFM) was used to probe changes in transition dipole moment orientation as a function of thermal annealing time in hybrid organic-inorganic lead iodide based perovskite (CH₃NH₃PbI₃) thin films on glass. These results show that as thermal annealing time is increased the distribution of transition moments pointing out-of-plane decreases in favor of forming areas with increased in-plane orientations. As a result, it was also shown through the axial sensitivity of TIRFM that the surface topography is manifested in the signal intensity and can be used to survey aspects of morphology in coincidence with the optical properties of these films.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1214027

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 6, Issue 16; ISSN 1948-7185

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