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Title: Effect of Anisotropic Confinement on Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Band Edge Excitons in Inorganic Perovskite Nanowires

Abstract

Inorganic lead halide perovskite nanostructures show promise as the active layers in photovoltaics, light emitting diodes, and other optoelectronic devices. They are robust in the presence of oxygen and water, and the electronic structure and dynamics of these nanostructures can be tuned through quantum confinement. Here we create aligned bundles of CsPbBr3 nanowires with widths resulting in quantum confinement of the electronic wave functions and subject them to ultrafast microscopy. We directly image rapid one-dimensional exciton diffusion along the nanowires, and we measure an exciton trap density of roughly one per nanowire. Using transient absorption microscopy, we observe a polarization-dependent splitting of the band edge exciton line, and from the polarized fluorescence of nanowires in solution, we determine that the exciton transition dipole moments are anisotropic in strength. Furthermore, our observations are consistent with a model in which splitting is driven by shape anisotropy in conjunction with long-range exchange.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  3. Naval Research Lab., Washington D.C. (United States)
  4. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Kavli Energy NanoSciences Inst., Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1841152
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 124; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1089-5639
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Excitons; Diffusion; Nanowires; Quantum confinement; Polarization

Citation Formats

Folie, Brendan D., Tan, Jenna A., Huang, Jianmei, Sercel, Peter C., Delor, Milan, Lai, Minliang, Lyons, John L., Bernstein, Noam, Efros, Alexander L., Yang, Peidong, and Ginsberg, Naomi S. Effect of Anisotropic Confinement on Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Band Edge Excitons in Inorganic Perovskite Nanowires. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.9b11981.
Folie, Brendan D., Tan, Jenna A., Huang, Jianmei, Sercel, Peter C., Delor, Milan, Lai, Minliang, Lyons, John L., Bernstein, Noam, Efros, Alexander L., Yang, Peidong, & Ginsberg, Naomi S. Effect of Anisotropic Confinement on Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Band Edge Excitons in Inorganic Perovskite Nanowires. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b11981
Folie, Brendan D., Tan, Jenna A., Huang, Jianmei, Sercel, Peter C., Delor, Milan, Lai, Minliang, Lyons, John L., Bernstein, Noam, Efros, Alexander L., Yang, Peidong, and Ginsberg, Naomi S. Tue . "Effect of Anisotropic Confinement on Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Band Edge Excitons in Inorganic Perovskite Nanowires". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b11981. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1841152.
@article{osti_1841152,
title = {Effect of Anisotropic Confinement on Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Band Edge Excitons in Inorganic Perovskite Nanowires},
author = {Folie, Brendan D. and Tan, Jenna A. and Huang, Jianmei and Sercel, Peter C. and Delor, Milan and Lai, Minliang and Lyons, John L. and Bernstein, Noam and Efros, Alexander L. and Yang, Peidong and Ginsberg, Naomi S.},
abstractNote = {Inorganic lead halide perovskite nanostructures show promise as the active layers in photovoltaics, light emitting diodes, and other optoelectronic devices. They are robust in the presence of oxygen and water, and the electronic structure and dynamics of these nanostructures can be tuned through quantum confinement. Here we create aligned bundles of CsPbBr3 nanowires with widths resulting in quantum confinement of the electronic wave functions and subject them to ultrafast microscopy. We directly image rapid one-dimensional exciton diffusion along the nanowires, and we measure an exciton trap density of roughly one per nanowire. Using transient absorption microscopy, we observe a polarization-dependent splitting of the band edge exciton line, and from the polarized fluorescence of nanowires in solution, we determine that the exciton transition dipole moments are anisotropic in strength. Furthermore, our observations are consistent with a model in which splitting is driven by shape anisotropy in conjunction with long-range exchange.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpca.9b11981},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, and General Theory},
number = 9,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Tue Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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