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Intraband Cooling in All-Inorganic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Nanocrystals

Journal Article · · Advanced Functional Materials
 [1];  [2]
  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials; Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Intraband relaxation in all-inorganic cesium lead tribromide (CsPbBr3) and hybrid organic-inorganic formamidinium lead tribromide (FAPbBr3) nanocrystals is experimentally investigated for a range of particle sizes, excitation energies, sample temperatures, and excitation fluences. Hot carriers in CsPbBr3 nanocrystals consistently exhibit slower cooling than FAPbBr3 nanocrystals in the single electron-hole pair per nanocrystal regime. In both compositions, long-lived hot carriers (>3 ps) are only observed at excitation densities corresponding to production of multiple electron-hole pairs per nanocrystal-and concomitant Auger recombination. Furthermore, these presented results are distinct from previous reports in bulk hybrid perovskite materials that convey persistent hot carriers at low excitation fluences. Time-resolved photoluminescence confirms the rapid cooling of carriers in the low-fluence (single electron-hole pair per nanocrystal) regime. Intraband relaxation processes, as a function of excitation energy, size, and temperature are broadly consistent with other nanocrystalline semiconductor materials.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Scientific User Facilities Division
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1574294
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1543024
Journal Information:
Advanced Functional Materials, Journal Name: Advanced Functional Materials Journal Issue: 37 Vol. 29; ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher:
WileyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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