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Title: Excitonic gain and laser emission from mixed-cation halide perovskite thin films

Abstract

Organic–inorganic halide perovskites have recently developed into a potential semiconductor coherent light emitter candidate beyond their promise in solar cell applications. However, despite the ample demonstrations of perovskite lasers, experimental results on the origin of optical gain in perovskites are still elusive. Here, we analyze the excitonic gain in the green from mixed-cation halide perovskites Cs0.17[CH(NH2)2]0.83PbBr3 (Cs0.17FA0.83PbBr3) by both low temperature absorption/emission spectroscopies and ultrafast pump–probe transient absorption experiments. The perovskite thin films show a robust excitonic feature up to room temperature, with estimated exciton binding energy Eb = 43.8 meV, which can be maintained under high electronic excitations that are required for lasers. By using a high-quality (Q = 1350) vertical cavity consisting of sputtered dielectric HfO2/SiO2 distributed Bragg reflectors with perovskite optical gain medium embedded inside, we have demonstrated excitonic-gain-enabled optically pumped lasing, with improved threshold of 13.5 ± 1.4 μJ/cm2 and device longevity lifetime >35 h (108 laser shots) at ambient environment under sustained pulsed optical excitations (3.493 eV, τpulse = 0.34 ns, 1 kHz). Understanding and exploiting excitonic gain from perovskite thin film materials may help to further boost the performance of perovskite-based lasers.

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Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States)
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1471743
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OSTI ID: 1502474
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FG02-07ER46387
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Journal Name:
Optica
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Journal Name: Optica Journal Volume: 5 Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2334-2536
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Optical Society of America
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Chen, Songtao, and Nurmikko, Arto. Excitonic gain and laser emission from mixed-cation halide perovskite thin films. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.5.001141.
Chen, Songtao, & Nurmikko, Arto. Excitonic gain and laser emission from mixed-cation halide perovskite thin films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.001141
Chen, Songtao, and Nurmikko, Arto. Thu . "Excitonic gain and laser emission from mixed-cation halide perovskite thin films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.001141.
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title = {Excitonic gain and laser emission from mixed-cation halide perovskite thin films},
author = {Chen, Songtao and Nurmikko, Arto},
abstractNote = {Organic–inorganic halide perovskites have recently developed into a potential semiconductor coherent light emitter candidate beyond their promise in solar cell applications. However, despite the ample demonstrations of perovskite lasers, experimental results on the origin of optical gain in perovskites are still elusive. Here, we analyze the excitonic gain in the green from mixed-cation halide perovskites Cs0.17[CH(NH2)2]0.83PbBr3 (Cs0.17FA0.83PbBr3) by both low temperature absorption/emission spectroscopies and ultrafast pump–probe transient absorption experiments. The perovskite thin films show a robust excitonic feature up to room temperature, with estimated exciton binding energy Eb = 43.8 meV, which can be maintained under high electronic excitations that are required for lasers. By using a high-quality (Q = 1350) vertical cavity consisting of sputtered dielectric HfO2/SiO2 distributed Bragg reflectors with perovskite optical gain medium embedded inside, we have demonstrated excitonic-gain-enabled optically pumped lasing, with improved threshold of 13.5 ± 1.4 μJ/cm2 and device longevity lifetime >35 h (108 laser shots) at ambient environment under sustained pulsed optical excitations (3.493 eV, τpulse = 0.34 ns, 1 kHz). Understanding and exploiting excitonic gain from perovskite thin film materials may help to further boost the performance of perovskite-based lasers.},
doi = {10.1364/OPTICA.5.001141},
journal = {Optica},
number = 9,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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Fig. 1. Fig. 1. : (a) Scanning electron microscope image of surface morphology of a Cs0.17FA0.83PbBr3 film on a planar quartz substrate. (b) Grain size distribution of the mixed-cation perovskite film, with Gaussian fit (black line) yielding mean value of 79 nm and standard deviation of 51 nm. (c) Xray diffraction patternmore » comparison betweenCs0.17FA0.83PbBr3 and control FAPbBr3 films, with zoom-in of (001) peak shown on the right.« less

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