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

Abstract

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.

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [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
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
OSTI Identifier:
1574294
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1543024
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; AC02‐06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Functional Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 29; Journal Issue: 37; Journal ID: ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; hot carriers; intraband; nanocrystals; perovskites

Citation Formats

Diroll, Benjamin T., and Schaller, Richard D. Intraband Cooling in All-Inorganic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Nanocrystals. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1002/adfm.201901725.
Diroll, Benjamin T., & Schaller, Richard D. Intraband Cooling in All-Inorganic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Nanocrystals. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201901725
Diroll, Benjamin T., and Schaller, Richard D. Wed . "Intraband Cooling in All-Inorganic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Nanocrystals". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201901725. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1574294.
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title = {Intraband Cooling in All-Inorganic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Nanocrystals},
author = {Diroll, Benjamin T. and Schaller, Richard D.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1002/adfm.201901725},
journal = {Advanced Functional Materials},
number = 37,
volume = 29,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Time- and energy-resolved maps of transient absorption with 3.1 eV pump of representative (b) 9.7 nm CsPbBr3 and (b) 8.8 nm FAPbBr3 nanocrystals. (c, d) Normalized spectral line-cuts of the two-dimensional maps. (e, f) Kinetics of the excitonic bleach feature for a series of (e) CsPbBr3 and (f)more » FAPbBr3 nanocrystals of various sizes. Data presented as open circles with solid single fit lines. (g, h) Extracted fits from (e, f) plotted against nanocrystal size. Gray dashed lines in (c, d, e, f) indicate Δα = 0 for each respective trace.« less

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