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Aebli M, Kaul CJ, Yazdani N, Krieg F, Bernasconi C, Guggisberg D, Marczak M, Morad V, Piveteau L, Bodnarchuk MI, Verel R, Wood V, Kovalenko MV. Disorder and Halide Distributions in Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals as Seen by Colloidal 133Cs Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Chem Mater 2024; 36:2767-2775. [PMID: 38558917 PMCID: PMC10976639 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2023] [Revised: 03/02/2024] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
Abstract
Colloidal nuclear magnetic resonance (cNMR) spectroscopy on inorganic cesium lead halide nanocrystals (CsPbX3 NCs) is found to serve for noninvasive characterization and quantification of disorder within these structurally soft and labile particles. In particular, we show that 133Cs cNMR is highly responsive to size variations from 3 to 11 nm or to altering the capping ligands on the surfaces of CsPbX3 NCs. Distinct 133Cs signals are attributed to the surface and core NC regions. Increased heterogeneous broadening of 133Cs signals, observed for smaller NCs as well as for long-chain zwitterionic capping ligands (phosphocholines, phosphoethanol(propanol)amine, and sulfobetaines), can be attributed to more significant surface disorder and multifaceted surfaces (truncated cubes). On the contrary, capping with dimethyldidodecylammonium bromide (DDAB) successfully reduces signal broadening owing to better surface passivation and sharper (001)-bound cuboid shape. DFT calculations on various sizes of NCs corroborate the notion that the surface disorder propagates over several octahedral layers. 133Cs NMR is a sensitive probe for studying halide gradients in mixed Br/Cl NCs, indicating bromide-rich surfaces and chloride-rich cores. On the contrary, mixed Br/I NCs exhibit homogeneous halide distributions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marcel Aebli
- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Department
of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg
1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Department
of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg
1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH
Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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Sekh T, Cherniukh I, Kobiyama E, Sheehan TJ, Manoli A, Zhu C, Athanasiou M, Sergides M, Ortikova O, Rossell MD, Bertolotti F, Guagliardi A, Masciocchi N, Erni R, Othonos A, Itskos G, Tisdale WA, Stöferle T, Rainò G, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV. All-Perovskite Multicomponent Nanocrystal Superlattices. ACS Nano 2024; 18:8423-8436. [PMID: 38446635 PMCID: PMC10958606 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c13062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2023] [Revised: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
Abstract
Nanocrystal superlattices (NC SLs) have long been sought as promising metamaterials, with nanoscale-engineered properties arising from collective and synergistic effects among the constituent building blocks. Lead halide perovskite (LHP) NCs come across as outstanding candidates for SL design, as they demonstrate collective light emission, known as superfluorescence, in single- and multicomponent SLs. Thus far, LHP NCs have only been assembled in single-component SLs or coassembled with dielectric NC building blocks acting solely as spacers between luminescent NCs. Here, we report the formation of multicomponent LHP NC-only SLs, i.e., using only CsPbBr3 NCs of different sizes as building blocks. The structural diversity of the obtained SLs encompasses the ABO6, ABO3, and NaCl structure types, all of which contain orientationally and positionally locked NCs. For the selected model system, the ABO6-type SL, we observed efficient NC coupling and Förster-like energy transfer from strongly confined 5.3 nm CsPbBr3 NCs to weakly confined 17.6 nm CsPbBr3 NCs, along with characteristic superfluorescence features at cryogenic temperatures. Spatiotemporal exciton dynamics measurements reveal that binary SLs exhibit enhanced exciton diffusivity compared to single-component NC assemblies across the entire temperature range (from 5 to 298 K). The observed coherent and incoherent NC coupling and controllable excitonic transport within the solid NC SLs hold promise for applications in quantum optoelectronic devices.
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- Taras
V. Sekh
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Laboratory
of Ultrafast Science, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus
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- Electron
Microscopy Center, Empa−Swiss Federal
Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Electron
Microscopy Center, Empa−Swiss Federal
Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department
of Science and High Technology and To.Sca.Lab, University of Insubria, via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Istituto
di Cristallografia and To.Sca.Lab, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Department
of Science and High Technology and To.Sca.Lab, University of Insubria, via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Electron
Microscopy Center, Empa−Swiss Federal
Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Ultrafast Science, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus
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- Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- IBM
Research Europe−Zürich, Rüschlikon CH-8803, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Bodnarchuk MI, Feld LG, Zhu C, Boehme SC, Bertolotti F, Avaro J, Aebli M, Mir SH, Masciocchi N, Erni R, Chakraborty S, Guagliardi A, Rainò G, Kovalenko MV. Colloidal Aziridinium Lead Bromide Quantum Dots. ACS Nano 2024. [PMID: 38320982 PMCID: PMC10883123 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c11579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
Abstract
The compositional engineering of lead-halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) via the A-site cation represents a lever to fine-tune their structural and electronic properties. However, the presently available chemical space remains minimal since, thus far, only three A-site cations have been reported to favor the formation of stable lead-halide perovskite NCs, i.e., Cs+, formamidinium (FA), and methylammonium (MA). Inspired by recent reports on bulk single crystals with aziridinium (AZ) as the A-site cation, we present a facile colloidal synthesis of AZPbBr3 NCs with a narrow size distribution and size tunability down to 4 nm, producing quantum dots (QDs) in the regime of strong quantum confinement. NMR and Raman spectroscopies confirm the stabilization of the AZ cations in the locally distorted cubic structure. AZPbBr3 QDs exhibit bright photoluminescence with quantum efficiencies of up to 80%. Stabilized with cationic and zwitterionic capping ligands, single AZPbBr3 QDs exhibit stable single-photon emission, which is another essential attribute of QDs. In particular, didodecyldimethylammonium bromide and 2-octyldodecyl-phosphoethanolamine ligands afford AZPbBr3 QDs with high spectral stability at both room and cryogenic temperatures, reduced blinking with a characteristic ON fraction larger than 85%, and high single-photon purity (g(2)(0) = 0.1), all comparable to the best-reported values for MAPbBr3 and FAPbBr3 QDs of the same size.
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- Maryna I Bodnarchuk
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Science and High Technology and To.Sca.Lab., University of Insubria, via Valleggio 11, Como 22100, Italy
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- Centre for X-ray Analytics & Laboratory for Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen 9014, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Materials Theory for Energy Scavenging (MATES) Lab, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) Allahabad, A C.I. of Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Prayagraj (Allahabad) 211019, India
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- Department of Science and High Technology and To.Sca.Lab., University of Insubria, via Valleggio 11, Como 22100, Italy
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- Electron Microscopy Center, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
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- Materials Theory for Energy Scavenging (MATES) Lab, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) Allahabad, A C.I. of Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Prayagraj (Allahabad) 211019, India
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- Istituto di Cristallografia and To.Sca.Lab, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Valleggio 11, Como 22100, Italy
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- SKKU Institute of Energy Science and Technology (SIEST), Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea
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Zhu C, Boehme SC, Feld LG, Moskalenko A, Dirin DN, Mahrt RF, Stöferle T, Bodnarchuk MI, Efros AL, Sercel PC, Kovalenko MV, Rainò G. Single-photon superradiance in individual caesium lead halide quantum dots. Nature 2024; 626:535-541. [PMID: 38297126 PMCID: PMC10866711 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-07001-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2024]
Abstract
The brightness of an emitter is ultimately described by Fermi's golden rule, with a radiative rate proportional to its oscillator strength times the local density of photonic states. As the oscillator strength is an intrinsic material property, the quest for ever brighter emission has relied on the local density of photonic states engineering, using dielectric or plasmonic resonators1,2. By contrast, a much less explored avenue is to boost the oscillator strength, and hence the emission rate, using a collective behaviour termed superradiance. Recently, it was proposed3 that the latter can be realized using the giant oscillator-strength transitions of a weakly confined exciton in a quantum well when its coherent motion extends over many unit cells. Here we demonstrate single-photon superradiance in perovskite quantum dots with a sub-100 picosecond radiative decay time, almost as short as the reported exciton coherence time4. The characteristic dependence of radiative rates on the size, composition and temperature of the quantum dot suggests the formation of giant transition dipoles, as confirmed by effective-mass calculations. The results aid in the development of ultrabright, coherent quantum light sources and attest that quantum effects, for example, single-photon emission, persist in nanoparticles ten times larger than the exciton Bohr radius.
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- Chenglian Zhu
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Center for Computational Materials Science, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
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- Center for Hybrid Organic Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy, Golden, CO, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
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Gallop NP, Maslennikov DR, Mondal N, Goetz KP, Dai Z, Schankler AM, Sung W, Nihonyanagi S, Tahara T, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV, Vaynzof Y, Rappe AM, Bakulin AA. Ultrafast vibrational control of organohalide perovskite optoelectronic devices using vibrationally promoted electronic resonance. Nat Mater 2024; 23:88-94. [PMID: 37985838 PMCID: PMC10769873 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01723-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
Abstract
Vibrational control (VC) of photochemistry through the optical stimulation of structural dynamics is a nascent concept only recently demonstrated for model molecules in solution. Extending VC to state-of-the-art materials may lead to new applications and improved performance for optoelectronic devices. Metal halide perovskites are promising targets for VC due to their mechanical softness and the rich array of vibrational motions of both their inorganic and organic sublattices. Here, we demonstrate the ultrafast VC of FAPbBr3 perovskite solar cells via intramolecular vibrations of the formamidinium cation using spectroscopic techniques based on vibrationally promoted electronic resonance. The observed short (~300 fs) time window of VC highlights the fast dynamics of coupling between the cation and inorganic sublattice. First-principles modelling reveals that this coupling is mediated by hydrogen bonds that modulate both lead halide lattice and electronic states. Cation dynamics modulating this coupling may suppress non-radiative recombination in perovskites, leading to photovoltaics with reduced voltage losses.
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- Nathaniel P Gallop
- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Chair for Emerging Electronic Technologies, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Chair for Emerging Electronic Technologies, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Yazdani N, Bodnarchuk MI, Bertolotti F, Masciocchi N, Fureraj I, Guzelturk B, Cotts BL, Zajac M, Rainò G, Jansen M, Boehme SC, Yarema M, Lin MF, Kozina M, Reid A, Shen X, Weathersby S, Wang X, Vauthey E, Guagliardi A, Kovalenko MV, Wood V, Lindenberg AM. Coupling to octahedral tilts in halide perovskite nanocrystals induces phonon-mediated attractive interactions between excitons. Nat Phys 2023; 20:47-53. [PMID: 38261834 PMCID: PMC10791581 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02253-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2022] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2024]
Abstract
Understanding the origin of electron-phonon coupling in lead halide perovskites is key to interpreting and leveraging their optical and electronic properties. Here we show that photoexcitation drives a reduction of the lead-halide-lead bond angles, a result of deformation potential coupling to low-energy optical phonons. We accomplish this by performing femtosecond-resolved, optical-pump-electron-diffraction-probe measurements to quantify the lattice reorganization occurring as a result of photoexcitation in nanocrystals of FAPbBr3. Our results indicate a stronger coupling in FAPbBr3 than CsPbBr3. We attribute the enhanced coupling in FAPbBr3 to its disordered crystal structure, which persists down to cryogenic temperatures. We find the reorganizations induced by each exciton in a multi-excitonic state constructively interfere, giving rise to a coupling strength that scales quadratically with the exciton number. This superlinear scaling induces phonon-mediated attractive interactions between excitations in lead halide perovskites.
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- Nuri Yazdani
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
- Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia & To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, Como, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia & To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, Como, Italy
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Chemistry and Materials Design Group, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Istituto di Cristallografia & To.Sca.Lab, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Como, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
- Department of Photon Science, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA
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Carwithen BP, Hopper TR, Ge Z, Mondal N, Wang T, Mazlumian R, Zheng X, Krieg F, Montanarella F, Nedelcu G, Kroll M, Siguan MA, Frost JM, Leo K, Vaynzof Y, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV, Bakulin AA. Confinement and Exciton Binding Energy Effects on Hot Carrier Cooling in Lead Halide Perovskite Nanomaterials. ACS Nano 2023; 17:6638-6648. [PMID: 36939330 PMCID: PMC10100565 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c12373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
The relaxation of the above-gap ("hot") carriers in lead halide perovskites (LHPs) is important for applications in photovoltaics and offers insights into carrier-carrier and carrier-phonon interactions. However, the role of quantum confinement in the hot carrier dynamics of nanosystems is still disputed. Here, we devise a single approach, ultrafast pump-push-probe spectroscopy, to study carrier cooling in six different size-controlled LHP nanomaterials. In cuboidal nanocrystals, we observe only a weak size effect on the cooling dynamics. In contrast, two-dimensional systems show suppression of the hot phonon bottleneck effect common in bulk perovskites. The proposed kinetic model describes the intrinsic and density-dependent cooling times accurately in all studied perovskite systems using only carrier-carrier, carrier-phonon, and excitonic coupling constants. This highlights the impact of exciton formation on carrier cooling and promotes dimensional confinement as a tool for engineering carrier-phonon and carrier-carrier interactions in LHP optoelectronic materials.
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- Ben P. Carwithen
- Department
of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United
Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United
Kingdom
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford
University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United
Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United
Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United
Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United
Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United
Kingdom
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen 9747AG, The Netherlands
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- Center
for
Advancing Electronics Dresden, Technische
Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
- Integrated
Center for Applied Photophysics and Photonic Materials, Technische Universität Dresden, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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- Chair
for Emerging Electronic Technologies, Technische
Universität Dresden, 01187 Dresden, Germany
- Leibniz
Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United
Kingdom
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- Integrated
Center for Applied Photophysics and Photonic Materials, Technische Universität Dresden, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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- Chair
for Emerging Electronic Technologies, Technische
Universität Dresden, 01187 Dresden, Germany
- Leibniz
Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United
Kingdom
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Nette J, Montanarella F, Zhu C, Sekh TV, Boehme SC, Bodnarchuk MI, Rainò G, Howes PD, Kovalenko MV, deMello AJ. Microfluidic synthesis of monodisperse and size-tunable CsPbBr 3 supraparticles. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:3554-3557. [PMID: 36880408 DOI: 10.1039/d3cc00093a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2023]
Abstract
The highly controlled, microfluidic template-assisted self-assembly of CsPbBr3 nanocrystals into spherical supraparticles is presented, achieving precise control over average supraparticle size through the variation of nanocrystal concentration and droplet size; thus facilitating the synthesis of highly monodisperse, sub-micron supraparticles (with diameters between 280 and 700 nm).
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- Julia Nette
- Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Taras V Sekh
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Simon C Boehme
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Philip D Howes
- Division of Mechanical Engineering and Design, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8093, Switzerland.
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Dirin DN, Vivani A, Zacharias M, Sekh TV, Cherniukh I, Yakunin S, Bertolotti F, Aebli M, Schaller RD, Wieczorek A, Siol S, Cancellieri C, Jeurgens LPH, Masciocchi N, Guagliardi A, Pedesseau L, Even J, Kovalenko MV, Bodnarchuk MI. Intrinsic Formamidinium Tin Iodide Nanocrystals by Suppressing the Sn(IV) Impurities. Nano Lett 2023; 23:1914-1923. [PMID: 36852730 PMCID: PMC9999454 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
The long search for nontoxic alternatives to lead halide perovskites (LHPs) has shown that some compelling properties of LHPs, such as low effective masses of carriers, can only be attained in their closest Sn(II) and Ge(II) analogues, despite their tendency toward oxidation. Judicious choice of chemistry allowed formamidinium tin iodide (FASnI3) to reach a power conversion efficiency of 14.81% in photovoltaic devices. This progress motivated us to develop a synthesis of colloidal FASnI3 NCs with a concentration of Sn(IV) reduced to an insignificant level and to probe their intrinsic structural and optical properties. Intrinsic FASnI3 NCs exhibit unusually low absorption coefficients of 4 × 103 cm-1 at the first excitonic transition, a 190 meV increase of the band gap as compared to the bulk material, and a lack of excitonic resonances. These features are attributed to a highly disordered lattice, distinct from the bulk FASnI3 as supported by structural characterizations and first-principles calculations.
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- Dmitry N. Dirin
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento
di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia & To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Univ
Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, Institut FOTON, Rennes F-35000, France
| | - Taras V. Sekh
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Ihor Cherniukh
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Sergii Yakunin
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento
di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia & To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Richard D. Schaller
- Center
for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National
Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United
States
- Department
of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Norberto Masciocchi
- Dipartimento
di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia & To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
| | - Antonietta Guagliardi
- Istituto
di Cristallografia & To.Sca.Lab, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Univ
Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, Institut FOTON, Rennes F-35000, France
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- Univ
Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, Institut FOTON, Rennes F-35000, France
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Maryna I. Bodnarchuk
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Zhu C, Nguyen T, Boehme SC, Moskalenko A, Dirin DN, Bodnarchuk MI, Katan C, Even J, Rainò G, Kovalenko MV. Many-Body Correlations and Exciton Complexes in CsPbBr 3 Quantum Dots. Adv Mater 2023; 35:e2208354. [PMID: 36537857 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202208354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Revised: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
All-inorganic lead-halide perovskite (LHP) (CsPbX3 , X = Cl, Br, I) quantum dots (QDs) have emerged as a competitive platform for classical light-emitting devices (in the weak light-matter interaction regime, e.g., LEDs and laser), as well as for devices exploiting strong light-matter interaction at room temperature. Many-body interactions and quantum correlations among photogenerated exciton complexes play an essential role, for example, by determining the laser threshold, the overall brightness of LEDs, and the single-photon purity in quantum light sources. Here, by combining cryogenic single-QD photoluminescence spectroscopy with configuration-interaction (CI) calculations, the size-dependent trion and biexciton binding energies are addressed. Trion binding energies increase from 7 to 17 meV for QD sizes decreasing from 30 to 9 nm, while the biexciton binding energies increase from 15 to 30 meV, respectively. CI calculations quantitatively corroborate the experimental results and suggest that the effective dielectric constant for biexcitons slightly deviates from the one of the single excitons, potentially as a result of coupling to the lattice in the multiexciton regime. The findings here provide a deep insight into the multiexciton properties in all-inorganic LHP QDs, essential for classical and quantum optoelectronic devices.
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- Chenglian Zhu
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Univ Rennes, ENSCR, CNRS, ISCR - UMR6226, Rennes, F-35000, France
| | - Simon C Boehme
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Anastasiia Moskalenko
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Dmitry N Dirin
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Univ Rennes, ENSCR, CNRS, ISCR - UMR6226, Rennes, F-35000, France
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- Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, Institut FOTON - UMR6082, Rennes, F-35000, France
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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Boehme S, Bodnarchuk MI, Burian M, Bertolotti F, Cherniukh I, Bernasconi C, Zhu C, Erni R, Amenitsch H, Naumenko D, Andrusiv H, Semkiv N, John RA, Baldwin A, Galkowski K, Masciocchi N, Stranks SD, Rainò G, Guagliardi A, Kovalenko MV. Strongly Confined CsPbBr 3 Quantum Dots as Quantum Emitters and Building Blocks for Rhombic Superlattices. ACS Nano 2023; 17:2089-2100. [PMID: 36719353 PMCID: PMC9933619 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c07677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
The success of the colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) field is rooted in the precise synthetic control of QD size, shape, and composition, enabling electronically well-defined functional nanomaterials that foster fundamental science and motivate diverse fields of applications. While the exploitation of the strong confinement regime has been driving commercial and scientific interest in InP or CdSe QDs, such a regime has still not been thoroughly explored and exploited for lead-halide perovskite QDs, mainly due to a so far insufficient chemical stability and size monodispersity of perovskite QDs smaller than about 7 nm. Here, we demonstrate chemically stable strongly confined 5 nm CsPbBr3 colloidal QDs via a postsynthetic treatment employing didodecyldimethylammonium bromide ligands. The achieved high size monodispersity (7.5% ± 2.0%) and shape-uniformity enables the self-assembly of QD superlattices with exceptional long-range order, uniform thickness, an unusual rhombic packing with an obtuse angle of 104°, and narrow-band cyan emission. The enhanced chemical stability indicates the promise of strongly confined perovskite QDs for solution-processed single-photon sources, with single QDs showcasing a high single-photon purity of 73% and minimal blinking (78% "on" fraction), both at room temperature.
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- Simon
C. Boehme
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Swiss
Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
| | - Federica Bertolotti
- Department
of Science and High Technology and To.Sca.Lab., University of Insubria, via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
| | - Ihor Cherniukh
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Caterina Bernasconi
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Chenglian Zhu
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Electron
Microscopy Center, Empa, Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University
of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University
of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Nazar Semkiv
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Cavendish
Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
- Department
of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.
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- Cavendish
Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
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- Department
of Science and High Technology and To.Sca.Lab., University of Insubria, via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
| | - Samuel D. Stranks
- Cavendish
Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
- Department
of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Istituto
di Cristallografia and To.Sca.Lab, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Seiler H, Zahn D, Taylor VCA, Bodnarchuk MI, Windsor YW, Kovalenko MV, Ernstorfer R. Direct Observation of Ultrafast Lattice Distortions during Exciton-Polaron Formation in Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. ACS Nano 2023; 17:1979-1988. [PMID: 36651873 PMCID: PMC9933605 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c06727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
The microscopic origin of slow hot-carrier cooling in lead halide perovskites remains debated and has direct implications for applications. Slow hot-carrier cooling of several picoseconds has been attributed to either polaron formation or a hot-phonon bottleneck effect at high excited carrier densities (>1018 cm-3). These effects cannot be unambiguously disentangled with optical experiments alone. However, they can be distinguished by direct observations of ultrafast lattice dynamics, as these effects are expected to create qualitatively distinct fingerprints. To this end, we employ femtosecond electron diffraction and directly measure the sub-picosecond lattice dynamics of weakly confined CsPbBr3 nanocrystals following above-gap photoexcitation. While we do not observe signatures of a hot-phonon bottleneck lasting several picoseconds, the data reveal a light-induced structural distortion appearing on a time scale varying between 380 and 1200 fs depending on the excitation fluence. We attribute these dynamics to the effect of exciton-polarons on the lattice and the slower dynamics at high fluences to slower sub-picosecond hot-carrier cooling, which slows down the establishment of the exciton-polaron population. Further analysis and simulations show that the distortion is consistent with motions of the [PbBr3]- octahedral ionic cage, and closest agreement with the data is obtained for Pb-Br bond lengthening. Our work demonstrates how direct studies of lattice dynamics on the sub-picosecond time scale can discriminate between competing scenarios proposed in the literature to explain the origin of slow hot-carrier cooling in lead halide perovskites.
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- Hélène Seiler
- Fritz
Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Physics
Department, Free University of Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz
Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz
Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Fritz
Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Institut
für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische
Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Fritz
Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Institut
für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische
Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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Sakhatskyi K, John RA, Guerrero A, Tsarev S, Sabisch S, Das T, Matt GJ, Yakunin S, Cherniukh I, Kotyrba M, Berezovska Y, Bodnarchuk MI, Chakraborty S, Bisquert J, Kovalenko MV. Assessing the Drawbacks and Benefits of Ion Migration in Lead Halide Perovskites. ACS Energy Lett 2022; 7:3401-3414. [PMID: 36277137 PMCID: PMC9578653 DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.2c01663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
Abstract
Since the inception of the unprecedented rise of halide perovskites for photovoltaic research, ion migration has shadowed this material class with undesirable hysteresis and degradation effects, limiting its practical implementations. Unfortunately, the localized doping and electrochemical reactions triggered by ion migration cause many more undesirable effects that are often unreported or misinterpreted because they deviate from classical semiconductor behavior. In this Perspective, we provide a concise overview of such effects in halide perovskites, such as operational instability in photovoltaics, polarization-induced abnormal external quantum efficiency in light-emitting diodes, and energy channel shift and anomalous sensitivities in hard radiation detection. Finally, we highlight a unique use case of exploiting ion migration as a boon to design emerging memory technologies such as memristors for information storage and computing.
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- Kostiantyn Sakhatskyi
- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat
Jaume I, 12006 Castelló, Spain
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Materials
Theory for Energy Scavenging (MATES) Lab, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) Allahabad, HBNI, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh 211019, India
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Materials
Theory for Energy Scavenging (MATES) Lab, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) Allahabad, HBNI, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh 211019, India
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- Institute
of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat
Jaume I, 12006 Castelló, Spain
- Yonsei
Frontier Lab, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Dachraoui W, Bodnarchuk MI, Erni R. Direct Imaging of the Atomic Mechanisms Governing the Growth and Shape of Bimetallic Pt-Pd Nanocrystals by In Situ Liquid Cell STEM. ACS Nano 2022; 16:14198-14209. [PMID: 36036793 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c04291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Understanding the atomic mechanisms governing the growth of bimetallic nanoalloys is of great interest for scientists. As a promising material for photocatalysis applications, Pt-Pd bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) have been in the spotlight for many years due to their catalytic performance, which is typically superior to that of pure Pt NPs. In this work, we use in situ liquid cell scanning transmission electron microscopy to track the exact atomic mechanisms governing the formation of bimetallic Pt-Pd NPs. We find that the formation process of the bimetallic Pt-Pd is divided into three stages. First, the nucleation and growth of ultrasmall primary nanoclusters are formed by the agglomeration of Pt and Pd atoms. Second, the primary nanoclusters are involved in a coalescence process to form two types of bigger agglomerates, namely, amorphous (a-NC) and crystalline (c-NC) nanoclusters. In the third stage, these clusters undergo a coalescence process leading to the formation of Pt-Pd NPs, while, in parallel, monomer attachment continues. We found that the third stage contains three types of coalescence processes, a-NC-a-NC, a-NC-c-NC, and c-NC-c-NC coalescence, which eventually give rise to crystalline bimetallic alloys. However, each type of coalescence gave distinct NPs in terms of shape and defects. Our results thus reveal the exact growth mechanisms of bimetallic alloys on the atomic scale, unravel the origin of their structure, and overall are of key interest to tailor the structure of bimetallic NPs.
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- Walid Dachraoui
- Electron Microscopy Center, Empa─Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa─Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Electron Microscopy Center, Empa─Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Athanasiou M, Manoli A, Papagiorgis P, Georgiou K, Berezovska Y, Othonos A, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV, Itskos G. Flexible, Free-Standing Polymer Membranes Sensitized by CsPbX3 Nanocrystals as Gain Media for Low Threshold, Multicolor Light Amplification. ACS Photonics 2022; 9:2385-2397. [PMID: 35880075 PMCID: PMC9305998 DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) are highly suitable active media for solution-processed lasers in the visible spectrum, owing to the wide tunability of their emission from blue to red via facile ion-exchange reactions. Their outstanding optical gain properties and the suppressed nonradiative recombination losses stem from their defect-tolerant nature. In this work, we demonstrate flexible waveguides combining the transparent, bioplastic, polymer cellulose acetate with green CsPbBr3 or red-emitting CsPb(Br,I)3 NCs in simple solution-processed architectures based on polymer-NC multilayers deposited on polymer micro-slabs. Experiments and simulations indicate that the employment of the thin, free-standing membranes results in confined electrical fields, enhanced by 2 orders of magnitude compared to identical multilayer stacks deposited on conventional, rigid quartz substrates. As a result, the polymer structures exhibit improved amplified emission characteristics under nanosecond excitation, with amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) thresholds down to ∼95 μJ cm-2 and ∼70 μJ cm-2 and high net modal gain up to ∼450 and ∼630 cm-1 in the green and red parts of the spectrum, respectively. The optimized gain properties are accompanied by a notable improvement of the ASE operational stability due to the low thermal resistance of the substrate-less membranes and the intimate thermal contact between the polymer and the NCs. Their application potential is further highlighted by the membrane's ability to sustain dual-color ASE in the green and red parts of the spectrum through excitation by a single UV source, activate underwater stimulated emission, and operate as efficient white light downconverters of commercial blue LEDs, producing high-quality white light emission, 115% of the NTSC color gamut.
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- Modestos Athanasiou
- Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus
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- Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus
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- Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus
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- Department
of Physics, Laboratory of Ultrafast Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus
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- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa—Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Department
of Physics, Laboratory of Ultrafast Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus
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- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa—Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa—Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus
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Cherniukh I, Sekh TV, Rainò G, Ashton OJ, Burian M, Travesset A, Athanasiou M, Manoli A, John RA, Svyrydenko M, Morad V, Shynkarenko Y, Montanarella F, Naumenko D, Amenitsch H, Itskos G, Mahrt RF, Stöferle T, Erni R, Kovalenko MV, Bodnarchuk MI. Structural Diversity in Multicomponent Nanocrystal Superlattices Comprising Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocubes. ACS Nano 2022; 16:7210-7232. [PMID: 35385663 PMCID: PMC9134504 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c10702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
Abstract
Nanocrystal (NC) self-assembly is a versatile platform for materials engineering at the mesoscale. The NC shape anisotropy leads to structures not observed with spherical NCs. This work presents a broad structural diversity in multicomponent, long-range ordered superlattices (SLs) comprising highly luminescent cubic CsPbBr3 NCs (and FAPbBr3 NCs) coassembled with the spherical, truncated cuboid, and disk-shaped NC building blocks. CsPbBr3 nanocubes combined with Fe3O4 or NaGdF4 spheres and truncated cuboid PbS NCs form binary SLs of six structure types with high packing density; namely, AB2, quasi-ternary ABO3, and ABO6 types as well as previously known NaCl, AlB2, and CuAu types. In these structures, nanocubes preserve orientational coherence. Combining nanocubes with large and thick NaGdF4 nanodisks results in the orthorhombic SL resembling CaC2 structure with pairs of CsPbBr3 NCs on one lattice site. Also, we implement two substrate-free methods of SL formation. Oil-in-oil templated assembly results in the formation of binary supraparticles. Self-assembly at the liquid-air interface from the drying solution cast over the glyceryl triacetate as subphase yields extended thin films of SLs. Collective electronic states arise at low temperatures from the dense, periodic packing of NCs, observed as sharp red-shifted bands at 6 K in the photoluminescence and absorption spectra and persisting up to 200 K.
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- Ihor Cherniukh
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Swiss
Light
Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University
of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University
of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
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- IBM
Research Europe−Zurich, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Zhu C, Marczak M, Feld L, Boehme SC, Bernasconi C, Moskalenko A, Cherniukh I, Dirin D, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV, Rainò G. Room-Temperature, Highly Pure Single-Photon Sources from All-Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots. Nano Lett 2022; 22:3751-3760. [PMID: 35467890 PMCID: PMC9101069 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2022] [Revised: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
Abstract
Attaining pure single-photon emission is key for many quantum technologies, from optical quantum computing to quantum key distribution and quantum imaging. The past 20 years have seen the development of several solid-state quantum emitters, but most of them require highly sophisticated techniques (e.g., ultrahigh vacuum growth methods and cryostats for low-temperature operation). The system complexity may be significantly reduced by employing quantum emitters capable of working at room temperature. Here, we present a systematic study across ∼170 photostable single CsPbX3 (X: Br and I) colloidal quantum dots (QDs) of different sizes and compositions, unveiling that increasing quantum confinement is an effective strategy for maximizing single-photon purity due to the suppressed biexciton quantum yield. Leveraging the latter, we achieve 98% single-photon purity (g(2)(0) as low as 2%) from a cavity-free, nonresonantly excited single 6.6 nm CsPbI3 QDs, showcasing the great potential of CsPbX3 QDs as room-temperature highly pure single-photon sources for quantum technologies.
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- Chenglian Zhu
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Montanarella F, McCall KM, Sakhatskyi K, Yakunin S, Trtik P, Bernasconi C, Cherniukh I, Mannes D, Bodnarchuk MI, Strobl M, Walfort B, Kovalenko MV. Highly Concentrated, Zwitterionic Ligand-Capped Mn 2+:CsPb(Br x Cl 1-x ) 3 Nanocrystals as Bright Scintillators for Fast Neutron Imaging. ACS Energy Lett 2021; 6:4365-4373. [PMID: 34917771 PMCID: PMC8669634 DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.1c01923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
Fast neutron imaging is a nondestructive technique for large-scale objects such as nuclear fuel rods. However, present detectors are based on conventional phosphors (typically microcrystalline ZnS:Cu) that have intrinsic drawbacks, including light scattering, γ-ray sensitivity, and afterglow. Fast neutron imaging with colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) was demonstrated to eliminate light scattering. While lead halide perovskite (LHP) FAPbBr3 NCs emitting brightly showed poor spatial resolution due to reabsorption, the Mn2+-doped CsPb(BrCl)3 NCs with oleyl ligands had higher resolution because of large apparent Stokes shift but insufficient concentration for high light yield. In this work, we demonstrate a NC scintillator that features simultaneously high quantum yields, high concentrations, and a large apparent Stokes shift. In particular, we use long-chain zwitterionic ligand capping in the synthesis of Mn2+-doped CsPb(BrCl)3 NCs that allows for attaining very high concentrations (>100 mg/mL) of colloids. The emissive behavior of these ASC18-capped NCs was carefully controlled by compositional tuning that permitted us to select for high quantum yields (>50%) coinciding with Mn-dominated emission for minimal self-absorption. These tailored Mn2+:CsPb(BrCl)3 NCs demonstrated over 8 times brighter light yield than their oleyl-capped variants under fast neutron irradiation, which is competitive with that of near-unity FAPbBr3 NCs, while essentially eliminating self-absorption. Because of their rare combination of concentrations above 100 mg/mL and high quantum yields, along with minimal self-absorption for good spatial resolution, Mn2+:CsPb(BrCl)3 NCs have the potential to displace ZnS:Cu as the leading scintillator for fast neutron imaging.
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- Federico Montanarella
- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul
Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul
Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul
Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Cherniukh I, Rainò G, Sekh TV, Zhu C, Shynkarenko Y, John RA, Kobiyama E, Mahrt RF, Stöferle T, Erni R, Kovalenko MV, Bodnarchuk MI. Shape-Directed Co-Assembly of Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocubes with Dielectric Nanodisks into Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices. ACS Nano 2021; 15:16488-16500. [PMID: 34549582 PMCID: PMC8552496 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c06047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
Abstract
Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) holds great promise in the multiscale engineering of solid-state materials, whereby atomically engineered NC building blocks are arranged into long-range ordered structures-superlattices (SLs)-with synergistic physical and chemical properties. Thus far, the reports have by far focused on single-component and binary systems of spherical NCs, yielding SLs isostructural with the known atomic lattices. Far greater structural space, beyond the realm of known lattices, is anticipated from combining NCs of various shapes. Here, we report on the co-assembly of steric-stabilized CsPbBr3 nanocubes (5.3 nm) with disk-shaped LaF3 NCs (9.2-28.4 nm in diameter, 1.6 nm in thickness) into binary SLs, yielding six columnar structures with AB, AB2, AB4, and AB6 stoichiometry, not observed before and in our reference experiments with NC systems comprising spheres and disks. This striking effect of the cubic shape is rationalized herein using packing-density calculations. Furthermore, in the systems with comparable dimensions of nanocubes (8.6 nm) and nanodisks (6.5 nm, 9.0 nm, 12.5 nm), other, noncolumnar structures are observed, such as ReO3-type SL, featuring intimate intermixing and face-to-face alignment of disks and cubes, face-centered cubic or simple cubic sublattice of nanocubes, and two or three disks per one lattice site. Lamellar and ReO3-type SLs, employing large 8.6 nm CsPbBr3 NCs, exhibit characteristic features of the collective ultrafast light emission-superfluorescence-originating from the coherent coupling of emission dipoles in the excited state.
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- Ihor Cherniukh
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Taras V. Sekh
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Chenglian Zhu
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Yevhen Shynkarenko
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Rohit Abraham John
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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- IBM
Research Europe—Zurich, Rüschlikon CH-8803, Switzerland
| | - Rolf Erni
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Maksym V. Kovalenko
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
| | - Maryna I. Bodnarchuk
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Electron Microscopy
Center, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials
Science and Technology, Dübendorf CH-8600, Switzerland
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Dey A, Ye J, De A, Debroye E, Ha SK, Bladt E, Kshirsagar AS, Wang Z, Yin J, Wang Y, Quan LN, Yan F, Gao M, Li X, Shamsi J, Debnath T, Cao M, Scheel MA, Kumar S, Steele JA, Gerhard M, Chouhan L, Xu K, Wu XG, Li Y, Zhang Y, Dutta A, Han C, Vincon I, Rogach AL, Nag A, Samanta A, Korgel BA, Shih CJ, Gamelin DR, Son DH, Zeng H, Zhong H, Sun H, Demir HV, Scheblykin IG, Mora-Seró I, Stolarczyk JK, Zhang JZ, Feldmann J, Hofkens J, Luther JM, Pérez-Prieto J, Li L, Manna L, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV, Roeffaers MBJ, Pradhan N, Mohammed OF, Bakr OM, Yang P, Müller-Buschbaum P, Kamat PV, Bao Q, Zhang Q, Krahne R, Galian RE, Stranks SD, Bals S, Biju V, Tisdale WA, Yan Y, Hoye RLZ, Polavarapu L. State of the Art and Prospects for Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. ACS Nano 2021; 15:10775-10981. [PMID: 34137264 PMCID: PMC8482768 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 332] [Impact Index Per Article: 110.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
Abstract
Metal-halide perovskites have rapidly emerged as one of the most promising materials of the 21st century, with many exciting properties and great potential for a broad range of applications, from photovoltaics to optoelectronics and photocatalysis. The ease with which metal-halide perovskites can be synthesized in the form of brightly luminescent colloidal nanocrystals, as well as their tunable and intriguing optical and electronic properties, has attracted researchers from different disciplines of science and technology. In the last few years, there has been a significant progress in the shape-controlled synthesis of perovskite nanocrystals and understanding of their properties and applications. In this comprehensive review, researchers having expertise in different fields (chemistry, physics, and device engineering) of metal-halide perovskite nanocrystals have joined together to provide a state of the art overview and future prospects of metal-halide perovskite nanocrystal research.
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Grants
- from U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- European Research Council under the European Unionâ??s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (HYPERION)
- Ministry of Education - Singapore
- FLAG-ERA JTC2019 project PeroGas.
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy
- EPSRC
- iBOF funding
- Agencia Estatal de Investigaci�ón, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci�ón y Universidades
- National Research Foundation Singapore
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Croucher Foundation
- US NSF
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- National Science Foundation
- Royal Society and Tata Group
- Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China
- Research 12210 Foundation?Flanders
- Japan International Cooperation Agency
- Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain under Project STABLE
- Generalitat Valenciana via Prometeo Grant Q-Devices
- VetenskapsrÃÂ¥det
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province
- KU Leuven
- Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
- Generalitat Valenciana
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research
- Ministerio de EconomÃÂa y Competitividad
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- Hercules Foundation
- China Association for Science and Technology
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- Wenner-Gren Foundation
- Welch Foundation
- Vlaamse regering
- European Commission
- Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst
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Affiliation(s)
- Amrita Dey
- Chair for
Photonics and Optoelectronics, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of
Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
(LMU), Königinstrasse 10, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Cavendish
Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 19 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
| | - Apurba De
- School of
Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India
| | - Elke Debroye
- Department
of Chemistry, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
| | - Seung Kyun Ha
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
| | - Eva Bladt
- EMAT, University
of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan
171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
- NANOlab Center
of Excellence, University of Antwerp, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research (IISER), Pune 411008, India
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- School
of
Science and Technology for Optoelectronic Information ,Yantai University, Yantai, Shandong Province 264005, China
| | - Jun Yin
- Division
of Physical Science and Engineering, King
Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- CINBIO,
Universidade de Vigo, Materials Chemistry
and Physics group, Departamento de Química Física, Campus Universitario As Lagoas,
Marcosende, 36310 Vigo, Spain
- Advanced
Membranes and Porous Materials Center, King
Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
| | - Yue Wang
- MIIT Key
Laboratory of Advanced Display Materials and Devices, Institute of
Optoelectronics & Nanomaterials, College of Materials Science
and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science
and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
| | - Li Na Quan
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
| | - Fei Yan
- LUMINOUS!
Center of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays, TPI-The
Photonics Institute, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798
| | - Mengyu Gao
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University
of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
| | - Xiaoming Li
- MIIT Key
Laboratory of Advanced Display Materials and Devices, Institute of
Optoelectronics & Nanomaterials, College of Materials Science
and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science
and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
| | - Javad Shamsi
- Cavendish
Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 19 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
| | - Tushar Debnath
- Chair for
Photonics and Optoelectronics, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of
Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
(LMU), Königinstrasse 10, 80539 Munich, Germany
| | - Muhan Cao
- Institute
of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory
for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
| | - Manuel A. Scheel
- Lehrstuhl
für Funktionelle Materialien, Physik Department, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
| | - Sudhir Kumar
- Institute
for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied
Biosciences, ETH-Zurich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
| | - Julian A. Steele
- MACS Department
of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
| | - Marina Gerhard
- Chemical
Physics and NanoLund Lund University, PO Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
| | - Lata Chouhan
- Graduate
School of Environmental Science and Research Institute for Electronic
Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan
| | - Ke Xu
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
- Multiscale
Crystal Materials Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced
Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
| | - Xian-gang Wu
- Beijing
Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems,
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 5 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian
District, Beijing 100081, China
| | - Yanxiu Li
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, and Centre for Functional Photonics
(CFP), City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong S.A.R.
| | - Yangning Zhang
- McKetta
Department of Chemical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1062, United States
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- School
of Materials Sciences, Indian Association
for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego
State University, San Diego, California 92182, United States
| | - Ilka Vincon
- Chair for
Photonics and Optoelectronics, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of
Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
(LMU), Königinstrasse 10, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, and Centre for Functional Photonics
(CFP), City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong S.A.R.
| | - Angshuman Nag
- Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research (IISER), Pune 411008, India
| | - Anunay Samanta
- School of
Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India
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- McKetta
Department of Chemical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1062, United States
| | - Chih-Jen Shih
- Institute
for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied
Biosciences, ETH-Zurich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
| | - Daniel R. Gamelin
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
| | - Dong Hee Son
- Department
of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
| | - Haibo Zeng
- MIIT Key
Laboratory of Advanced Display Materials and Devices, Institute of
Optoelectronics & Nanomaterials, College of Materials Science
and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science
and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
| | - Haizheng Zhong
- Beijing
Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems,
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 5 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian
District, Beijing 100081, China
| | - Handong Sun
- Division
of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical
Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371
- Centre
for Disruptive Photonic Technologies (CDPT), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371
| | - Hilmi Volkan Demir
- LUMINOUS!
Center of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays, TPI-The
Photonics Institute, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798
- Division
of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical
Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798
- Department
of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Physics,
UNAM-Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey
| | - Ivan G. Scheblykin
- Chemical
Physics and NanoLund Lund University, PO Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
| | - Iván Mora-Seró
- Institute
of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat
Jaume I, 12071 Castelló, Spain
| | - Jacek K. Stolarczyk
- Chair for
Photonics and Optoelectronics, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of
Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
(LMU), Königinstrasse 10, 80539 Munich, Germany
| | - Jin Z. Zhang
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
| | - Jochen Feldmann
- Chair for
Photonics and Optoelectronics, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of
Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
(LMU), Königinstrasse 10, 80539 Munich, Germany
| | - Johan Hofkens
- Department
of Chemistry, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
- Max Planck
Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz 55128, Germany
| | - Joseph M. Luther
- National
Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
| | - Julia Pérez-Prieto
- Institute
of Molecular Science, University of Valencia, c/Catedrático José
Beltrán 2, Paterna, Valencia 46980, Spain
| | - Liang Li
- School
of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
| | - Liberato Manna
- Nanochemistry
Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, Genova 16163, Italy
| | - Maryna I. Bodnarchuk
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry and § Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zurich, Vladimir
Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Maksym V. Kovalenko
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry and § Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zurich, Vladimir
Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa−Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | | | - Narayan Pradhan
- School
of Materials Sciences, Indian Association
for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
| | - Omar F. Mohammed
- Advanced
Membranes and Porous Materials Center, King
Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- KAUST Catalysis
Center, King Abdullah University of Science
and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia
| | - Osman M. Bakr
- Division
of Physical Science and Engineering, King
Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Advanced
Membranes and Porous Materials Center, King
Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
| | - Peidong Yang
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University
of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Kavli
Energy NanoScience Institute, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
| | - Peter Müller-Buschbaum
- Lehrstuhl
für Funktionelle Materialien, Physik Department, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
Zentrum (MLZ), Technische Universität
München, Lichtenbergstr. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
| | - Prashant V. Kamat
- Notre Dame
Radiation Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
| | - Qiaoliang Bao
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering and ARC Centre of Excellence
in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
| | - Qiao Zhang
- Institute
of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory
for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
| | - Roman Krahne
- Istituto
Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy
| | - Raquel E. Galian
- School
of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
| | - Samuel D. Stranks
- Cavendish
Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 19 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0AS, United Kingdom
| | - Sara Bals
- EMAT, University
of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan
171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
- NANOlab Center
of Excellence, University of Antwerp, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
| | - Vasudevanpillai Biju
- Graduate
School of Environmental Science and Research Institute for Electronic
Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan
| | - William A. Tisdale
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
| | - Yong Yan
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego
State University, San Diego, California 92182, United States
| | - Robert L. Z. Hoye
- Department
of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
| | - Lakshminarayana Polavarapu
- Chair for
Photonics and Optoelectronics, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of
Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
(LMU), Königinstrasse 10, 80539 Munich, Germany
- CINBIO,
Universidade de Vigo, Materials Chemistry
and Physics group, Departamento de Química Física, Campus Universitario As Lagoas,
Marcosende, 36310 Vigo, Spain
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Krieg F, Sercel PC, Burian M, Andrusiv H, Bodnarchuk MI, Stöferle T, Mahrt RF, Naumenko D, Amenitsch H, Rainò G, Kovalenko MV. Monodisperse Long-Chain Sulfobetaine-Capped CsPbBr 3 Nanocrystals and Their Superfluorescent Assemblies. ACS Cent Sci 2021; 7:135-144. [PMID: 33532576 PMCID: PMC7845019 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c01153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
Ligand-capped nanocrystals (NCs) of lead halide perovskites, foremost fully inorganic CsPbX3 NCs, are the latest generation of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots. They offer a set of compelling characteristics-large absorption cross section, as well as narrow, fast, and efficient photoluminescence with long exciton coherence times-rendering them attractive for applications in light-emitting devices and quantum optics. Monodisperse and shape-uniform, broadly size-tunable, scalable, and robust NC samples are paramount for unveiling their basic photophysics, as well as for putting them into use. Thus far, no synthesis method fulfilling all these requirements has been reported. For instance, long-chain zwitterionic ligands impart the most durable surface coating, but at the expense of reduced size uniformity of the as-synthesized colloid. In this work, we demonstrate that size-selective precipitation of CsPbBr3 NCs coated with a long-chain sulfobetaine ligand, namely, 3-(N,N-dimethyloctadecylammonio)-propanesulfonate, yields monodisperse and sizable fractions (>100 mg inorganic mass) with the mean NC size adjustable in the range between 3.5 and 16 nm and emission peak wavelength between 479 and 518 nm. We find that all NCs exhibit an oblate cuboidal shape with the aspect ratio of 1.2 × 1.2 × 1. We present a theoretical model (effective mass/k·p) that accounts for the anisotropic NC shape and describes the size dependence of the first and second excitonic transition in absorption spectra and explains room-temperature exciton lifetimes. We also show that uniform zwitterion-capped NCs readily form long-range ordered superlattices upon solvent evaporation. In comparison to more conventional ligand systems (oleic acid and oleylamine), supercrystals of zwitterion-capped NCs exhibit larger domain sizes and lower mosaicity. Both kinds of supercrystals exhibit superfluorescence at cryogenic temperatures-accelerated collective emission arising from the coherent coupling of the emitting dipoles.
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Affiliation(s)
- Franziska Krieg
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Peter C. Sercel
- Center
for Hybrid Organic Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
- Department
of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
| | - Max Burian
- Swiss
Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | - Hordii Andrusiv
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Maryna I. Bodnarchuk
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Thilo Stöferle
- IBM Research
Europe - Zurich, Säumerstrasse
4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
| | - Rainer F. Mahrt
- IBM Research
Europe - Zurich, Säumerstrasse
4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
| | - Denys Naumenko
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University
of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/V, 8010 Graz, Austria
| | - Heinz Amenitsch
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University
of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/V, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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McCall KM, Sakhatskyi K, Lehmann E, Walfort B, Losko AS, Montanarella F, Bodnarchuk MI, Krieg F, Kelestemur Y, Mannes D, Shynkarenko Y, Yakunin S, Kovalenko MV. Fast Neutron Imaging with Semiconductor Nanocrystal Scintillators. ACS Nano 2020; 14:14686-14697. [PMID: 32897688 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c06381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
Abstract
Fast neutrons offer high penetration capabilities for both light and dense materials due to their comparatively low interaction cross sections, making them ideal for the imaging of large-scale objects such as large fossils or as-built plane turbines, for which X-rays or thermal neutrons do not provide sufficient penetration. However, inefficient fast neutron detection limits widespread application of this technique. Traditional phosphors such as ZnS:Cu embedded in plastics are utilized as scintillators in recoil proton detectors for fast neutron imaging. However, these scintillation plates exhibit significant light scattering due to the plastic-phosphor interface along with long-lived afterglow (on the order of minutes), and therefore alternative solutions are needed to increase the availability of this technique. Here, we utilize colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) in hydrogen-dense solvents for fast neutron imaging through the detection of recoil protons generated by neutron scattering, demonstrating the efficacy of nanomaterials as scintillators in this detection scheme. The light yield, spatial resolution, and neutron-vs-gamma sensitivity of several chalcogenide (CdSe and CuInS2)-based and perovskite halide-based NCs are determined, with only a short-lived afterglow (below the order of seconds) observed for all of these NCs. FAPbBr3 NCs exhibit the brightest total light output at 19.3% of the commercial ZnS:Cu(PP) standard, while CsPbBrCl2:Mn NCs offer the best spatial resolution at ∼2.6 mm. Colloidal NCs showed significantly lower gamma sensitivity than ZnS:Cu; for example, 79% of the FAPbBr3 light yield results from neutron-induced radioluminescence and hence the neutron-specific light yield of FAPbBr3 is 30.4% of that of ZnS:Cu(PP). Concentration and thickness-dependent measurements highlight the importance of increasing concentrations and reducing self-absorption, yielding design principles to optimize and foster an era of NC-based scintillators for fast neutron imaging.
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- Kyle M McCall
- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Garching, 85748, Germany
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara, 06830, Turkey
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, 5232, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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Becker MA, Bernasconi C, Bodnarchuk MI, Rainò G, Kovalenko MV, Norris DJ, Mahrt RF, Stöferle T. Unraveling the Origin of the Long Fluorescence Decay Component of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. ACS Nano 2020; 14:14939-14946. [PMID: 33174717 PMCID: PMC7690045 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c04401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
A common signature of nearly all nanoscale emitters is fluorescence intermittency, which is a rapid switching between "on"-states exhibiting a high photon emission rate and "off"-states with a much lower rate. One consequence of fluorescence intermittency occurring on time scales longer than the exciton decay time is the so-called delayed photon emission, manifested by a long radiative decay component. Besides their dominant fast radiative decay, fully inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite quantum dots exhibit a long fluorescence decay component at cryogenic temperatures that is often attributed to the decay of the dark exciton. Here, we show that its origin is delayed photon emission by investigating temporal variations in fluorescence intensity and concomitant decay times found in single CsPbBr3 perovskite quantum dots. We attribute the different intensity levels of the intensity trace to a rapid switching between a high-intensity exciton state and an Auger-reduced low-intensity trion state that occurs when the excitation is sufficiently strong. Surprisingly, we observe that the exponent of this power-law-dependent delayed emission is correlated with the emission intensity, which cannot be explained with existing charge carrier trapping models. Our analysis reveals that the long decay component is mainly governed by delayed emission, which is present in both the exciton and trion state. The absence of a fine structure in trions clarifies the vanishing role of the dark exciton state for the long decay component. Our findings are essential for the development of a complete photophysical model that captures all observed features of fluorescence variations in colloidal nanocrystals.
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- Michael A. Becker
- IBM
Research Europe−Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
- Optical
Materials Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process
Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Optical
Materials Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process
Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- IBM
Research Europe−Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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- IBM
Research Europe−Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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Hopper TR, Jeong A, Gorodetsky AA, Krieg F, Bodnarchuk MI, Huang X, Lovrincic R, Kovalenko MV, Bakulin AA. Kinetic modelling of intraband carrier relaxation in bulk and nanocrystalline lead-halide perovskites. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:17605-17611. [PMID: 32808944 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01599g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The relaxation of high-energy "hot" carriers in semiconductors is known to involve the redistribution of energy between hot and cold carriers, as well as the transfer of energy from hot carriers to phonons. Over the past few years, these two processes have been identified in lead-halide perovskites (LHPs) using ultrafast pump-probe experiments, but their interplay is not fully understood. Here we present a practical and intuitive kinetic model that accounts for the effects of both hot and cold carriers on carrier relaxation in LHPs. We apply this model to describe the dynamics of hot carriers in bulk and nanocrystalline CsPbBr3 as observed by multi-pulse "pump-push-probe" spectroscopy. The model captures the slowing of the relaxation dynamics in the materials as the number of hot carriers increases, which has previously been explained by a "hot-phonon bottleneck" mechanism. The model also correctly predicts an acceleration of the relaxation kinetics as the number of cold carriers in the samples is increased. Using a series of natural approximations, we reduce our model to a simple form containing terms for the carrier-carrier and carrier-phonon interactions. The model can be instrumental for evaluating the details of carrier relaxation and carrier-phonon couplings in LHPs and other soft optoelectronic materials.
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- Thomas R Hopper
- Ultrafast Optoelectronics Group, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, UK.
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Hopper TR, Gorodetsky A, Jeong A, Krieg F, Bodnarchuk MI, Maimaris M, Chaplain M, Macdonald TJ, Huang X, Lovrincic R, Kovalenko MV, Bakulin AA. Hot Carrier Dynamics in Perovskite Nanocrystal Solids: Role of the Cold Carriers, Nanoconfinement, and the Surface. Nano Lett 2020; 20:2271-2278. [PMID: 32142303 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b04491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
Abstract
Carrier cooling is of widespread interest in the field of semiconductor science. It is linked to carrier-carrier and carrier-phonon coupling and has profound implications for the photovoltaic performance of materials. Recent transient optical studies have shown that a high carrier density in lead-halide perovskites (LHPs) can reduce the cooling rate through a "phonon bottleneck". However, the role of carrier-carrier interactions, and the material properties that control cooling in LHPs, is still disputed. To address these factors, we utilize ultrafast "pump-push-probe" spectroscopy on LHP nanocrystal (NC) films. We find that the addition of cold carriers to LHP NCs increases the cooling rate, competing with the phonon bottleneck. By comparing different NCs and bulk samples, we deduce that the cooling behavior is intrinsic to the LHP composition and independent of the NC size or surface. This can be contrasted with other colloidal nanomaterials, where confinement and trapping considerably influence the cooling dynamics.
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- Thomas R Hopper
- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
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- Institute for High-Frequency Technology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Schleinitzstrasse 22, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
- InnovationLab, Speyerer Strasse 4, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for High-Frequency Technology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Schleinitzstrasse 22, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
- InnovationLab, Speyerer Strasse 4, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
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Kravchyk KV, Kovalenko MV, Bodnarchuk MI. Colloidal Antimony Sulfide Nanoparticles as a High-Performance Anode Material for Li-ion and Na-ion Batteries. Sci Rep 2020; 10:2554. [PMID: 32054956 PMCID: PMC7018818 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-59512-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
Abstract
To maximize the anodic charge storage capacity of Li-ion and Na-ion batteries (LIBs and SIBs, respectively), the conversion-alloying-type Sb2S3 anode has attracted considerable interest because of its merits of a high theoretical capacity of 946 mAh g-1 and a suitable anodic lithiation/delithiation voltage window of 0.1-2 V vs. Li+/Li. Recent advances in nanostructuring of the Sb2S3 anode provide an effective way of mitigating the challenges of structure conversion and volume expansion upon lithiation/sodiation that severely hinder the Sb2S3 cycling stability. In this context, we report uniformly sized colloidal Sb2S3 nanoparticles (NPs) as a model Sb2S3 anode material for LIBs and SIBs to investigate the effect of the primary particle size on the electrochemical performance of the Sb2S3 anode. We found that compared with microcrystalline Sb2S3, smaller ca. 20-25 nm and ca. 180-200 nm Sb2S3 NPs exhibit enhanced cycling stability as anode materials in both rechargeable LIBs and SIBs. Importantly, for the ca. 20-25 nm Sb2S3 NPs, a high initial Li-ion storage capacity of 742 mAh g-1 was achieved at a current density of 2.4 A g-1. At least 55% of this capacity was retained after 1200 cycles, which is among the most stable performance Sb2S3 anodes for LIBs.
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- Kostiantyn V Kravchyk
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
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Hofmann FJ, Bodnarchuk MI, Dirin DN, Vogelsang J, Kovalenko MV, Lupton JM. Energy Transfer from Perovskite Nanocrystals to Dye Molecules Does Not Occur by FRET. Nano Lett 2019; 19:8896-8902. [PMID: 31646869 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Single formamidinium lead bromide (FAPbBr3) perovskite nanocubes, approximately 10 nm in size, have extinction cross sections orders of magnitude larger than single dye molecules and can therefore be used to photoexcite one single dye molecule within their immediate vicinity by means of excitation-energy transfer (EET). The rate of photon emission by the single dye molecule is increased by 2 orders of magnitude under excitation by EET compared to direct excitation at the same laser fluence. Because the dye cannot accommodate biexcitons, NC biexcitons are filtered out by EET, giving rise to up to an order-of-magnitude improvement in the fidelity of photon antibunching. We demonstrate here that, contrary to expectation, energy transfer from the nanocrystal to dye molecules does not depend on the spectral line widths of the donor and acceptor and is therefore not governed by Förster's theory of resonance energy transfer (FRET). Two different cyanine dye acceptors with substantially different spectral overlaps with the nanocrystal donor show a similar light-harvesting capability. Cooling the sample from room temperature to 5 K reduces the average transition line widths 25-fold but has no apparent effect on the number of molecules emitting, i.e., on the spatial density of single dye molecules being photoexcited by single nanocrystals. Narrow zero-phonon lines are identified for both donor and acceptor, with an energetic separation of over 40 times the line width, implying a complete absence of spectral overlap-even though EET is evident. Both donor and acceptor exhibit spectral fluctuations, but no correlation is apparent between the jitter, which controls spectral overlap, and the overall light harvesting. We conclude that the energy transfer process is fundamentally nonresonant, implying effective energy dissipation in the perovskite donor because of strong electron-phonon coupling of the carriers comprising the exciton. The work highlights the importance of performing cryogenic spectroscopy to reveal the underlying mechanisms of energy transfer in complex donor-acceptor systems.
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- Felix J Hofmann
- Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik , Universität Regensburg , Universitätsstraße 31 , 93053 Regensburg , Germany
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- ETH Zürich , Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstr. 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- ETH Zürich , Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstr. 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik , Universität Regensburg , Universitätsstraße 31 , 93053 Regensburg , Germany
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- ETH Zürich , Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstr. 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik , Universität Regensburg , Universitätsstraße 31 , 93053 Regensburg , Germany
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Krieg F, Ong QK, Burian M, Rainò G, Naumenko D, Amenitsch H, Süess A, Grotevent MJ, Krumeich F, Bodnarchuk MI, Shorubalko I, Stellacci F, Kovalenko MV. Stable Ultraconcentrated and Ultradilute Colloids of CsPbX 3 (X = Cl, Br) Nanocrystals Using Natural Lecithin as a Capping Ligand. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:19839-19849. [PMID: 31763836 PMCID: PMC6923794 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Attaining thermodynamic stability of colloids in a broad
range
of concentrations has long been a major thrust in the field of colloidal
ligand-capped semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs). This challenge is
particularly pressing for the novel NCs of cesium lead halide perovskites
(CsPbX3; X = Cl, Br) owing to their highly dynamic and
labile surfaces. Herein, we demonstrate that soy lecithin, a mass-produced
natural phospholipid, serves as a tightly binding surface-capping
ligand suited for a high-reaction yield synthesis of CsPbX3 NCs (6–10 nm) and allowing for long-term retention of the
colloidal and structural integrity of CsPbX3 NCs in a broad
range of concentrations—from a few ng/mL to >400 mg/mL (inorganic
core mass). The high colloidal stability achieved with this long-chain
zwitterionic ligand can be rationalized with the Alexander–De
Gennes model that considers the increased particle–particle
repulsion due to branched chains and ligand polydispersity. The versatility
and immense practical utility of such colloids is showcased by the
single NC spectroscopy on ultradilute samples and, conversely, by
obtaining micrometer-thick, optically homogeneous dense NC films in
a single spin-coating step from ultraconcentrated colloids.
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- Franziska Krieg
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Institute of Materials , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Lausanne , Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source , Paul Scherrer Institut , 5232 Villigen PSI , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry , Graz University of Technology , Stremayrgasse 9/V , 8010 Graz , Austria
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry , Graz University of Technology , Stremayrgasse 9/V , 8010 Graz , Austria
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Institute of Materials , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Lausanne , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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Shynkarenko Y, Bodnarchuk MI, Bernasconi C, Berezovska Y, Verteletskyi V, Ochsenbein ST, Kovalenko MV. Direct Synthesis of Quaternary Alkylammonium-Capped Perovskite Nanocrystals for Efficient Blue and Green Light-Emitting Diodes. ACS Energy Lett 2019; 4:2703-2711. [PMID: 31737780 PMCID: PMC6849336 DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b01915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2019] [Accepted: 10/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
Cesium lead halide nanocrystals (CsPbX3 NCs) are new inorganic light sources covering the entire visible spectral range and exhibiting near-unity efficiencies. While the last years have seen rapid progress in green and red electroluminescence from CsPbX3 NCs, the development of blue counterparts remained rather stagnant. Controlling the surface state of CsPbX3 NCs had proven to be a major factor governing the efficiency of the charge injection and for diminishing the density of traps. Although didodecyldimethylammonium halides (DDAX; X = Br, Cl) had been known to improve the luminescence of CsPbX3 NCs when applied postsynthetically, they had not been used as the sole long-chain ammonium ligand directly in the synthesis of these NCs. Herein we report a facile, direct synthesis of DDAX-stabilized CsPbX3 NCs. We then demonstrate blue and green light-emitting diodes, characterized by the electroluminescence at 463-515 nm and external quantum efficiencies of 9.80% for green, 4.96% for sky-blue, and 1.03% for deep-blue spectral regions.
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- Yevhen Shynkarenko
- Empa
− Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Empa
− Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- E-mail:
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- Empa
− Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Empa
− Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Empa
− Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Empa
− Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Empa
− Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Yakunin S, Benin BM, Shynkarenko Y, Nazarenko O, Bodnarchuk MI, Dirin DN, Hofer C, Cattaneo S, Kovalenko MV. High-resolution remote thermometry and thermography using luminescent low-dimensional tin-halide perovskites. Nat Mater 2019; 18:846-852. [PMID: 31263225 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0416-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2018] [Accepted: 05/23/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Although metal-halide perovskites have recently revolutionized research in optoelectronics through a unique combination of performance and synthetic simplicity, their low-dimensional counterparts can further expand the field with hitherto unknown and practically useful optical functionalities. In this context, we present the strong temperature dependence of the photoluminescence lifetime of low-dimensional, perovskite-like tin-halides and apply this property to thermal imaging. The photoluminescence lifetimes are governed by the heat-assisted de-trapping of self-trapped excitons, and their values can be varied over several orders of magnitude by adjusting the temperature (up to 20 ns °C-1). Typically, this sensitive range spans up to 100 °C, and it is both compound-specific and shown to be compositionally and structurally tunable from -100 to 110 °C going from [C(NH2)3]2SnBr4 to Cs4SnBr6 and (C4N2H14I)4SnI6. Finally, through the implementation of cost-effective hardware for fluorescence lifetime imaging, based on time-of-flight technology, these thermoluminophores have been used to record thermographic videos with high spatial and thermal resolution.
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- Sergii Yakunin
- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), Center Landquart, Landquart, Switzerland
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- Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), Center Landquart, Landquart, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
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Tamarat P, Bodnarchuk MI, Trebbia JB, Erni R, Kovalenko MV, Even J, Lounis B. The ground exciton state of formamidinium lead bromide perovskite nanocrystals is a singlet dark state. Nat Mater 2019; 18:717-724. [PMID: 31086320 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0364-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/03/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Lead halide perovskites have emerged as promising new semiconductor materials for high-efficiency photovoltaics, light-emitting applications and quantum optical technologies. Their luminescence properties are governed by the formation and radiative recombination of bound electron-hole pairs known as excitons, whose bright or dark character of the ground state remains unknown and debated. While symmetry analysis predicts a singlet non-emissive ground exciton topped with a bright exciton triplet, it has been predicted that the Rashba effect may reverse the bright and dark level ordering. Here, we provide the direct spectroscopic signature of the dark exciton emission in the low-temperature photoluminescence of single formamidinium lead bromide perovskite nanocrystals under magnetic fields. The dark singlet is located several millielectronvolts below the bright triplet, in fair agreement with an estimation of the long-range electron-hole exchange interaction. Nevertheless, these perovskites display an intense luminescence because of an extremely reduced bright-to-dark phonon-assisted relaxation.
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- Philippe Tamarat
- Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, Talence, France
- Institut d'Optique and CNRS, LP2N, Talence, France
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- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf, Switzerland
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- Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, Talence, France
- Institut d'Optique and CNRS, LP2N, Talence, France
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- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf, Switzerland
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- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf, Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, Institut FOTON - UMR 6082, Rennes, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, Talence, France.
- Institut d'Optique and CNRS, LP2N, Talence, France.
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Rainò G, Landuyt A, Krieg F, Bernasconi C, Ochsenbein ST, Dirin DN, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV. Underestimated Effect of a Polymer Matrix on the Light Emission of Single CsPbBr 3 Nanocrystals. Nano Lett 2019; 19:3648-3653. [PMID: 31117751 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Lead-halide perovskite APbX3 (A = Cs or organic cation; X = Cl, Br, I) nanocrystals (NCs) are the subject of intense research due to their exceptional characteristics as both classical and quantum light sources. Many challenges often faced with this material class concern the long-term optical stability, a serious intrinsic issue connected with the labile and polar crystal structure of APbX3 compounds. When conducting spectroscopy at a single particle level, due to the highly enhanced contaminants (e.g., water molecules, oxygen) over the NC ratio, deterioration of NC optical properties occurs within tens of seconds with typically used excitation power densities (1-100 W/cm2) and in ambient conditions. Here, we demonstrate that choosing a suitable polymer matrix is of paramount importance for obtaining stable spectra from a single NC and for suppressing the dynamic photoluminescence blueshift. In particular, polystyrene (PS), the most hydrophobic among four tested polymers, leads to the best optical stability, one to two orders of magnitude higher than that obtained with poly(methyl methacrylate), a common polymeric encapsulant containing polar ester groups. Molecular mechanics simulations based on a force-field approximation corroborate the hypothesis that PS affords for a denser molecular packing at the NC surface. These findings underscore the often-neglected role of the sample preparation methodologies for the assessment of the optical properties of perovskite NCs at a single-particle level and guide the further design of robust single photon sources.
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- Gabriele Rainò
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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Kravchyk KV, Widmer R, Erni R, Dubey RJC, Krumeich F, Kovalenko MV, Bodnarchuk MI. Copper sulfide nanoparticles as high-performance cathode materials for Mg-ion batteries. Sci Rep 2019; 9:7988. [PMID: 31142752 PMCID: PMC6541626 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43639-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Rechargeable magnesium batteries are appealing as safe, low-cost systems with high-energy-density storage that employ predominantly dendrite-free magnesium metal as the anode. While significant progress has been achieved with magnesium electrolytes in recent years, the further development of Mg-ion batteries, however, is inherently limited by the lack of suitable cathode materials, mainly due to the slow diffusion of high-charge-density Mg-ions in the intercalation-type host structures and kinetic limitations of conversion-type cathodes that often causes poor cyclic stability. Nanostructuring the cathode materials offers an effective means of mitigating these challenges, due to the reduced diffusion length and higher surface areas. In this context, we present the highly reversible insertion of Mg-ions into nanostructured conversion-type CuS cathode, delivering high capacities of 300 mAh g−1 at room temperature and high cyclic stability over 200 cycles at a current density of 0.1 A g−1 with a high coulombic efficiency of 99.9%. These materials clearly outperform bulk CuS, which is electrochemically active only at an elevated temperature of 50 °C. Our results not only point to the important role of nanomaterials in the enhancement of the kinetics of conversion reactions but also suggest that nanostructuring should be used as an integral tool in the exploration of new cathodes for multivalent, i.e., (Mg, Ca, Al)-ion batteries.
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- Kostiantyn V Kravchyk
- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland. .,Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
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- Nanotech@surfaces Laboratory, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Electron Microscopy Center, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland.,Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland. .,Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
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Papagiorgis P, Manoli A, Michael S, Bernasconi C, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV, Othonos A, Itskos G. Unraveling the Radiative Pathways of Hot Carriers upon Intense Photoexcitation of Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. ACS Nano 2019; 13:5799-5809. [PMID: 31070887 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b01398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The slowdown of carrier cooling in lead halide perovskites (LHP) may allow the realization of efficient hot carrier solar cells. Much of the current effort focuses on the understanding of the mechanisms that retard the carrier relaxation, while proof-of-principle demonstrations of hot carrier harvesting have started to emerge. Less attention has been placed on the impact that the energy and momentum relaxation slowdown imparts on the spontaneous and stimulated light-emission process. LHP nanocrystals (NCs) provide an ideal testing ground for such studies as they exhibit bright emission and high optical gain, while the carrier cooling bottleneck is further pronounced compared to their bulk analogues due to confinement. Herein, the luminescent properties of CsPbBr3, FAPbBr3, and FAPbI3 NCs in the strong photoexcitation regime are investigated. In the former two NC systems, amplified spontaneous emission is found to dominate over the radiative recombination at average carrier occupancy per nanocrystal larger than 5-10. On the other hand, under the same photoexcitation conditions in the FAPbI3 NCs, a longer lived population of hot carriers results in a competition between hot luminescence, stimulated emission, and defect recombination. The dynamic interplay between the aforementioned three emissive channels appears to be influenced by various experimental and material parameters that include temperature, material purity, film morphology, and excitation pulse width and wavelength.
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- Paris Papagiorgis
- Department of Physics, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory , University of Cyprus , Nicosia 1678 , Cyprus
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- Department of Physics, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory , University of Cyprus , Nicosia 1678 , Cyprus
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- Department of Physics, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory , University of Cyprus , Nicosia 1678 , Cyprus
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, Laboratory of Ultrafast Science , University of Cyprus , Nicosia 1678 , Cyprus
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- Department of Physics, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory , University of Cyprus , Nicosia 1678 , Cyprus
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Hofmann FJ, Bodnarchuk MI, Protesescu L, Kovalenko MV, Lupton JM, Vogelsang J. Exciton Gating and Triplet Deshelving in Single Dye Molecules Excited by Perovskite Nanocrystal FRET Antennae. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:1055-1062. [PMID: 30789278 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The extraordinary absorption cross section and high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield of perovskite nanocrystals make this type of material attractive to a variety of applications in optoelectronics. For the same reasons, nanocrystals are also ideally suited to function as nanoantennae to excite nearby single dye molecules by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). Here, we demonstrate that FAPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals, of cuboidal shape and approximately 10 nm in size, are capable of selectively exciting single cyanine 3 molecules at a concentration 100-fold higher than standard single-molecule concentrations. This FRET antenna mechanism increases the effective brightness of the single dye molecules 100-fold. Photon statistics and emission polarization measurements provide evidence for the FRET process by revealing photon antibunching with unprecedented fidelity and highly polarized emission stemming from single dye molecules. Remarkably, the quality of single-photon emission improves 1.5-fold compared to emission collected directly from the nanocrystals because the higher excited states of the dye molecule act as effective filters to multiexcitons. The same process gives rise to efficient deshelving of the molecular triplet state by reverse intersystem crossing (RISC), translating into a reduction of the PL saturation of the dye, thereby increasing the maximum achievable PL intensity of the dye by a factor of 3.
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- Felix J Hofmann
- Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik , Universität Regensburg , Universitätsstraße 31 , 93053 Regensburg , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
- Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik , Universität Regensburg , Universitätsstraße 31 , 93053 Regensburg , Germany
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- Department Chemie , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Butenandtstrasse 5-13 , 81377 München , Germany
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Papagiorgis PG, Manoli A, Alexiou A, Karacosta P, Karagiorgis X, Papaparaskeva G, Bernasconi C, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV, Krasia-Christoforou T, Itskos G. Robust Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Polymer Fibers Sensitized by Inorganic and Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal Emitters. Front Chem 2019; 7:87. [PMID: 30863744 PMCID: PMC6399309 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Advances in the technology and processing of flexible optical materials have paved the way toward the integration of semiconductor emitters and polymers into functional light emitting fabrics. Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals appear as highly suitable optical sensitizers for such polymer fiber emitters due to their ease of fabrication, versatile solution-processing and highly efficient, tunable, and narrow emission across the visible spectrum. A beneficial byproduct of the nanocrystal incorporation into the polymer matrix is that it provides a facile and low-cost method to chemically and structurally stabilize the perovskite nanocrystals under ambient conditions. Herein, we demonstrate two types of robust fiber composites based on electrospun hydrophobic poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) or hydrophilic polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) fibrous membranes sensitized by green-emitting all-inorganic CsPbBr3 or hybrid organic-inorganic FAPbBr3 nanocrystals. We perform a systematic investigation on the influence of the nanocrystal-polymer relative content on the structural and optical properties of the fiber nanocomposites and we find that within a wide content range, the nanocrystals retain their narrow and high quantum yield emission upon incorporation into the polymer fibers. Quenching of the radiative recombination at the higher/lower bound of the nanocrystal:polymer mass ratio probed is discussed in terms of nanocrystal clustering/ligand desorption due to dilution effects, respectively. The nanocomposite's optical stability over an extended exposure in air and upon immersion in water is also discussed. The studies confirm the demonstration of robust and bright polymer-fiber emitters with promising applications in backlighting for LCD displays and textile-based light emitting devices.
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- Paris G. Papagiorgis
- Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Kravchyk KV, Piveteau L, Caputo R, He M, Stadie NP, Bodnarchuk MI, Lechner RT, Kovalenko MV. Colloidal Bismuth Nanocrystals as a Model Anode Material for Rechargeable Mg-Ion Batteries: Atomistic and Mesoscale Insights. ACS Nano 2018; 12:8297-8307. [PMID: 30086624 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b03572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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At present, the technical progress of secondary batteries employing metallic magnesium as the anode material has been severely hindered due to the low oxidation stability of state-of-the-art Mg electrolytes, which cannot be used to explore high-voltage (>3 V versus Mg2+/Mg) cathode materials. All known electrolytes based on oxidatively stable solvents and salts, such as Mg(ClO4)2 and Mg bis(trifluoromethanesulfonimide), react with the metallic magnesium anode, forming a passivating layer at its surface and preventing the reversible plating and stripping of Mg. Therefore, in a near-term effort to extend the upper voltage limit in the exploration of future candidate Mg-ion battery cathode materials, bismuth anodes have attracted considerable attention due to their efficient magnesiation and demagnesiation alloying reaction in such electrolytes. In this context, we present colloidal Bi nanocrystals (NCs) as a model anode material for the exploration of cathode materials for rechargeable Mg-ion batteries. Bi NCs demonstrate a stable capacity of 325 mAh g-1 over at least 150 cycles at a current density of 770 mA g-1, which is among the most-stable performance of Mg-ion battery anode materials. First-principles crystal structure prediction methodologies and ex situ X-ray diffraction measurements reveal that the magnesiation of Bi NCs leads to the simultaneous formation of the low-temperature trigonal structure, α-Mg3Bi2, and the high-temperature cubic structure, β-Mg3Bi2, which sheds insight into the high stability of this reversible alloying reaction. Furthermore, small-angle X-ray scattering measurements indicate that although the monodispersed, crystalline nature of the Bi NCs is indeed disturbed during the first discharge step, no notable morphological or structural changes occur in the following electrochemical cycles. The cost-effective and facile synthesis of colloidal Bi NCs and their remarkably high electrochemical stability upon magnesiation make them an excellent model anode material with which to accelerate progress in the field of Mg-ion secondary batteries.
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- Kostiantyn V Kravchyk
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1 , Zurich , CH-8093 Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , Dübendorf , CH-8600 Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1 , Zurich , CH-8093 Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , Dübendorf , CH-8600 Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1 , Zurich , CH-8093 Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1 , Zurich , CH-8093 Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , Dübendorf , CH-8600 Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1 , Zurich , CH-8093 Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , Dübendorf , CH-8600 Switzerland
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- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , Dübendorf , CH-8600 Switzerland
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- Institute of Physics , Montanuniversitaet Leoben , Franz-Josef-Strasse 18 , A-8700 Leoben , Austria
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1 , Zurich , CH-8093 Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , Dübendorf , CH-8600 Switzerland
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Fu M, Tamarat P, Trebbia JB, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV, Even J, Lounis B. Unraveling exciton-phonon coupling in individual FAPbI 3 nanocrystals emitting near-infrared single photons. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3318. [PMID: 30127339 PMCID: PMC6102301 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05876-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Formamidinium lead iodide (FAPbI3) exhibits the narrowest bandgap energy among lead halide perovskites, thus playing a pivotal role for the development of photovoltaics and near-infrared classical or quantum light sources. Here, we unveil the fundamental properties of FAPbI3 by spectroscopic investigations of nanocrystals of this material at the single-particle level. We show that these nanocrystals deliver near-infrared single photons suitable for quantum communication. Moreover, the low temperature photoluminescence spectra of FAPbI3 nanocrystals reveal the optical phonon modes responsible for the emission line broadening with temperature and a vanishing exciton-acoustic phonon interaction in these soft materials. The photoluminescence decays are governed by thermal mixing between fine structure states, with a two-optical phonon Raman scattering process. These results point to a strong Frölich interaction and to a phonon glass character that weakens the interactions of charge carriers with acoustic phonons and thus impacts their relaxation and mobility in these perovskites.
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- Ming Fu
- Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, Talence, F-33405, France
- Institut d'Optique and CNRS, LP2N, Talence, F-33405, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, Talence, F-33405, France
- Institut d'Optique and CNRS, LP2N, Talence, F-33405, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, Talence, F-33405, France
- Institut d'Optique and CNRS, LP2N, Talence, F-33405, France
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, CH-8600, Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, Institut FOTON - UMR 6082, Rennes, F-35000, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, Talence, F-33405, France.
- Institut d'Optique and CNRS, LP2N, Talence, F-33405, France.
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Pfingsten O, Klein J, Protesescu L, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV, Bacher G. Phonon Interaction and Phase Transition in Single Formamidinium Lead Bromide Quantum Dots. Nano Lett 2018; 18:4440-4446. [PMID: 29916252 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Formamidinium lead bromide (FAPbBr3) quantum dots (QDs) are promising materials for light emitting applications in the visible spectral region because of their high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY) and the enhanced chemical stability as compared to, for instance, methylammonium based analogues. Toward practical harnessing of their compelling optical characteristics, the exciton recombination process, and in particular the exciton-phonon interaction and the impact of crystal phase transition, has to be understood in detail. This is addressed in this contribution by PL studies on single colloidal FAPbBr3 QDs. Polarization-resolved PL measurements reveal a fine structure splitting of excitonic transitions due to the Rashba effect. Distinct phonon replica have been observed within energetic distances of 4.3 ± 0.5, 8.6 ± 0.9, and 13.2 ± 1.1 meV from the zero phonon line, which we attribute to vibrational modes of the lead bromide lattice. Additional vibrational modes of 18.6 ± 0.3 and 38.8 ± 1.1 meV are found and related to liberation modes of the formamidinium (FA) cation. Temperature-dependent PL spectra reveal a line broadening of the emission caused by exciton phonon interaction as well an unusual energy shift which is attributed to a crystal phase transition within the single QD.
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- Oliver Pfingsten
- Werkstoffe der Elektrotechnik and CENIDE , Universität Duisburg-Essen , Bismarckstraße 81 , 47057 Duisburg , Germany
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- Werkstoffe der Elektrotechnik and CENIDE , Universität Duisburg-Essen , Bismarckstraße 81 , 47057 Duisburg , Germany
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics , Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129 , CH-8600 Dübendorf , Switzerland
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences , ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Werkstoffe der Elektrotechnik and CENIDE , Universität Duisburg-Essen , Bismarckstraße 81 , 47057 Duisburg , Germany
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Lignos I, Morad V, Shynkarenko Y, Bernasconi C, Maceiczyk RM, Protesescu L, Bertolotti F, Kumar S, Ochsenbein ST, Masciocchi N, Guagliardi A, Shih CJ, Bodnarchuk MI, deMello AJ, Kovalenko MV. Exploration of Near-Infrared-Emissive Colloidal Multinary Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals Using an Automated Microfluidic Platform. ACS Nano 2018; 12:5504-5517. [PMID: 29754493 PMCID: PMC6024237 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b01122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 05/12/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Hybrid organic-inorganic and fully inorganic lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) have recently emerged as versatile solution-processable light-emitting and light-harvesting optoelectronic materials. A particularly difficult challenge lies in warranting the practical utility of such semiconductor NCs in the red and infrared spectral regions. In this context, all three archetypal A-site monocationic perovskites-CH3NH3PbI3, CH(NH2)2PbI3, and CsPbI3-suffer from either chemical or thermodynamic instabilities in their bulk form. A promising approach toward the mitigation of these challenges lies in the formation of multinary compositions (mixed cation and mixed anion). In the case of multinary colloidal NCs, such as quinary Cs xFA1- xPb(Br1- yI y)3 NCs, the outcome of the synthesis is defined by a complex interplay between the bulk thermodynamics of the solid solutions, crystal surface energies, energetics, dynamics of capping ligands, and the multiple effects of the reagents in solution. Accordingly, the rational synthesis of such NCs is a formidable challenge. Herein, we show that droplet-based microfluidics can successfully tackle this problem and synthesize Cs xFA1- xPbI3 and Cs xFA1- xPb(Br1- yI y)3 NCs in both a time- and cost-efficient manner. Rapid in situ photoluminescence and absorption measurements allow for thorough parametric screening, thereby permitting precise optical engineering of these NCs. In this showcase study, we fine-tune the photoluminescence maxima of such multinary NCs between 700 and 800 nm, minimize their emission line widths (to below 40 nm), and maximize their photoluminescence quantum efficiencies (up to 89%) and phase/chemical stabilities. Detailed structural analysis revealed that the Cs xFA1- xPb(Br1- yI y)3 NCs adopt a cubic perovskite structure of FAPbI3, with iodide anions partially substituted by bromide ions. Most importantly, we demonstrate the excellent transference of reaction parameters from microfluidics to a conventional flask-based environment, thereby enabling up-scaling and further implementation in optoelectronic devices. As an example, Cs xFA1- xPb(Br1- yI y)3 NCs with an emission maximum at 735 nm were integrated into light-emitting diodes, exhibiting a high external quantum efficiency of 5.9% and a very narrow electroluminescence spectral bandwidth of 27 nm.
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- Ioannis Lignos
- Institute for Chemical
and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Institute for Chemical
and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
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- Institute for Chemical
and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia
and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Institute for Chemical
and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia
and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
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- Istituto di Cristallografia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, and To.Sca.Lab, via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
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- Institute for Chemical
and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
- E-mail:
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- Institute for Chemical
and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- E-mail:
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
- Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland
- E-mail:
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Semiconducting lead halide perovskites (LHPs) have not only become prominent thin-film absorber materials in photovoltaics but have also proven to be disruptive in the field of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs). The most important feature of LHP NCs is their so-called defect-tolerance-the apparently benign nature of structural defects, highly abundant in these compounds, with respect to optical and electronic properties. Here, we review the important differences that exist in the chemistry and physics of LHP NCs as compared with more conventional, tetrahedrally bonded, elemental, and binary semiconductor NCs (such as silicon, germanium, cadmium selenide, gallium arsenide, and indium phosphide). We survey the prospects of LHP NCs for optoelectronic applications such as in television displays, light-emitting devices, and solar cells, emphasizing the practical hurdles that remain to be overcome.
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- Maksym V Kovalenko
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093, Switzerland. .,Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093, Switzerland.,Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Switzerland
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- Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600, Switzerland.
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Wang S, Kravchyk KV, Filippin AN, Müller U, Tiwari AN, Buecheler S, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV. Aluminum Chloride-Graphite Batteries with Flexible Current Collectors Prepared from Earth-Abundant Elements. Adv Sci (Weinh) 2018; 5:1700712. [PMID: 29721419 PMCID: PMC5908378 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201700712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Revised: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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In the search for low-cost and large-scale stationary storage of electricity, nonaqueous aluminum chloride-graphite batteries (AlCl3-GBs) have received much attention due to the high natural abundances of their primary constituents, facile manufacturing, and high energy densities. Much research has focused on the judicious selection of graphite cathode materials, leading to the most notable recent advances in the performance of AlCl3-GBs. However, the major obstacle to commercializing this technology is the lack of oxidatively stable, inexpensive current collectors that can operate in chloroaluminate ionic liquids and are composed of earth-abundant elements. This study presents the use of titanium nitride (TiN) as a compelling material for this purpose. Flexible current collectors can be fabricated by coating TiN on stainless steel or flexible polyimide substrates by low-cost, rapid, scalable methods such as magnetron sputtering. When these current collectors are used in AlCl3-GB coin or pouch cells, stable cathodic operation is observed at voltages of up to 2.5 V versus Al3+/Al. Furthermore, these batteries have a high coulombic efficiency of 99.5%, power density of 4500 W kg-1, and cyclability of at least 500 cycles.
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- Shutao Wang
- Laboratory of Inorganic ChemistryDepartment of Chemistry and Applied BiosciencesETH ZürichVladimir‐Prelog‐Weg 1CH‐8093ZürichSwitzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and PhotovoltaicsEmpa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and TechnologyÜberlandstrasse 129CH‐8600DübendorfSwitzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic ChemistryDepartment of Chemistry and Applied BiosciencesETH ZürichVladimir‐Prelog‐Weg 1CH‐8093ZürichSwitzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and PhotovoltaicsEmpa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and TechnologyÜberlandstrasse 129CH‐8600DübendorfSwitzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and PhotovoltaicsEmpa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and TechnologyÜberlandstrasse 129CH‐8600DübendorfSwitzerland
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- Laboratory for Nanoscale Materials ScienceEmpa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and TechnologyÜberlandstrasse 129CH‐8600DübendorfSwitzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and PhotovoltaicsEmpa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and TechnologyÜberlandstrasse 129CH‐8600DübendorfSwitzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and PhotovoltaicsEmpa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and TechnologyÜberlandstrasse 129CH‐8600DübendorfSwitzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and PhotovoltaicsEmpa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and TechnologyÜberlandstrasse 129CH‐8600DübendorfSwitzerland
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- Laboratory of Inorganic ChemistryDepartment of Chemistry and Applied BiosciencesETH ZürichVladimir‐Prelog‐Weg 1CH‐8093ZürichSwitzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and PhotovoltaicsEmpa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and TechnologyÜberlandstrasse 129CH‐8600DübendorfSwitzerland
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Dragoman RM, Grogg M, Bodnarchuk MI, Tiefenboeck P, Hilvert D, Dirin DN, Kovalenko MV. Surface-Engineered Cationic Nanocrystals Stable in Biological Buffers and High Ionic Strength Solutions. Chem Mater 2017; 29:9416-9428. [PMID: 29606797 PMCID: PMC5871342 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2017] [Revised: 10/13/2017] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Progress in colloidal synthesis in the last two decades has enabled high-quality semiconductor, plasmonic, and magnetic nanocrystals (NCs). As synthesized, these NCs are usually capped with long-chain apolar ligands. Postsynthetic surface functionalization is required for rendering such NCs colloidally stable in polar media such as water. However, unlike small anionic molecules and polymeric coatings, producing positively charged stable NCs, especially at high ionic strengths, has remained challenging. Here, we present a general approach to achieve aqueously stable cationic NCs using a set of small (<2.5 nm long) positively charged ligands. The applicability of this method is demonstrated for a variety of materials including semiconductor CdSe/CdS core/shell NCs, magnetic Fe@Fe3O4, Fe3O4, and FePt NCs, and three different classes of plasmonic Au NCs including large nanorods. The obtained cationic NCs typically have zeta potential values ranging from +30 to +60 mV and retain colloidal stability for days to months, depending on NC/ligand pair, in several biological buffers at elevated pH and in concentrated salt solutions. This allowed us to demonstrate site-specific staining of cellular structures using fluorescent cationic NCs with several different surface chemistries. Furthermore, colloidal stability of the obtained NCs in the presence of other charged species allowed the assembly of cationic and anionic counterparts driven primarily by electrostatic attraction. With this approach, we prepare highly uniform 3D and 2D binary mixtures of NCs through induced homogeneous aggregation and alternating-charge layer-by-layer deposition, respectively. Such binary mixtures may provide a new route in the engineering of nanocrystalline solids for electronics, thermoelectrics, and photovoltaics.
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- Ryan M. Dragoman
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa-Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Huang H, Bodnarchuk MI, Kershaw SV, Kovalenko MV, Rogach AL. Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals in the Research Spotlight: Stability and Defect Tolerance. ACS Energy Lett 2017; 2:2071-2083. [PMID: 28920080 PMCID: PMC5594444 DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 392] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2017] [Accepted: 08/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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This Perspective outlines basic structural and optical properties of lead halide perovskite colloidal nanocrystals, highlighting differences and similarities between them and conventional II-VI and III-V semiconductor quantum dots. A detailed insight into two important issues inherent to lead halide perovskite nanocrystals then follows, namely, the advantages of defect tolerance and the necessity to improve their stability in environmental conditions. The defect tolerance of lead halide perovskites offers an impetus to search for similar attributes in other related heavy metal-free compounds. We discuss the origins of the significantly blue-shifted emission from CsPbBr3 nanocrystals and the synthetic strategies toward fabrication of stable perovskite nanocrystal materials with emission in the red and infrared parts of the optical spectrum, which are related to fabrication of mixed cation compounds guided by Goldschmidt tolerance factor considerations. We conclude with the view on perspectives of use of the colloidal perovskite nanocrystals for applications in backlighting of liquid-crystal TV displays.
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- He Huang
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering and Centre for Functional Photonics
(CFP), City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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- Institute
of Inorganic
Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering and Centre for Functional Photonics
(CFP), City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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- Institute
of Inorganic
Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory
for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa −
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
- E-mail: (M.V.K.)
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering and Centre for Functional Photonics
(CFP), City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
- E-mail: (A.L.R.)
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Isarov M, Tan LZ, Bodnarchuk MI, Kovalenko MV, Rappe AM, Lifshitz E. Rashba Effect in a Single Colloidal CsPbBr 3 Perovskite Nanocrystal Detected by Magneto-Optical Measurements. Nano Lett 2017; 17:5020-5026. [PMID: 28657325 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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This study depicts the influence of the Rashba effect on the band-edge exciton processes in all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite single colloidal nanocrystal (NC). The study is based on magneto-optical measurements carried out at cryogenic temperatures under various magnetic field strengths in which discrete excitonic transitions were detected by linearly and circularly polarized measurements. Interestingly, the experiments show a nonlinear energy splitting between polarized transitions versus magnetic field strength, indicating a crossover between a Rashba effect (at the lowest fields) to a Zeeman effect at fields above 4 T. We postulate that the Rashba effect emanates from a lattice distortion induced by the Cs+ motion degree of freedom or due to a surface effect in nanoscale NCs. The unusual magneto-optical properties shown here underscore the importance of the Rashba effect in the implementation of such perovskite materials in various optical and spin-based devices.
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- Maya Isarov
- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program, Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Solid State Institute, Technion , Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program, Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Solid State Institute, Technion , Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Maksym V. Kovalenko
- ETH Zürich Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1 CH-8093 Zurich;,
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- Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Laboratory for thin films and photovoltaics Ueberlandstrasse 129 CH-8600 Dübendorf
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Protesescu L, Yakunin S, Kumar S, Bär J, Bertolotti F, Masciocchi N, Guagliardi A, Grotevent M, Shorubalko I, Bodnarchuk MI, Shih CJ, Kovalenko MV. Dismantling the "Red Wall" of Colloidal Perovskites: Highly Luminescent Formamidinium and Formamidinium-Cesium Lead Iodide Nanocrystals. ACS Nano 2017; 11:3119-3134. [PMID: 28231432 PMCID: PMC5800405 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b00116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2017] [Accepted: 02/23/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) of APbX3-type lead halide perovskites [A = Cs+, CH3NH3+ (methylammonium or MA+) or CH(NH2)2+ (formamidinium or FA+); X = Cl-, Br-, I-] have recently emerged as highly versatile photonic sources for applications ranging from simple photoluminescence down-conversion (e.g., for display backlighting) to light-emitting diodes. From the perspective of spectral coverage, a formidable challenge facing the use of these materials is how to obtain stable emissions in the red and infrared spectral regions covered by the iodide-based compositions. So far, red-emissive CsPbI3 NCs have been shown to suffer from a delayed phase transformation into a nonluminescent, wide-band-gap 1D polymorph, and MAPbI3 exhibits very limited chemical durability. In this work, we report a facile colloidal synthesis method for obtaining FAPbI3 and FA-doped CsPbI3 NCs that are uniform in size (10-15 nm) and nearly cubic in shape and exhibit drastically higher robustness than their MA- or Cs-only cousins with similar sizes and morphologies. Detailed structural analysis indicated that the FAPbI3 NCs had a cubic crystal structure, while the FA0.1Cs0.9PbI3 NCs had a 3D orthorhombic structure that was isostructural to the structure of CsPbBr3 NCs. Bright photoluminescence (PL) with high quantum yield (QY > 70%) spanning red (690 nm, FA0.1Cs0.9PbI3 NCs) and near-infrared (near-IR, ca. 780 nm, FAPbI3 NCs) regions was sustained for several months or more in both the colloidal state and in films. The peak PL wavelengths can be fine-tuned by using postsynthetic cation- and anion-exchange reactions. Amplified spontaneous emissions with low thresholds of 28 and 7.5 μJ cm-2 were obtained from the films deposited from FA0.1Cs0.9PbI3 and FAPbI3 NCs, respectively. Furthermore, light-emitting diodes with a high external quantum efficiency of 2.3% were obtained by using FAPbI3 NCs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Loredana Protesescu
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry and Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Laboratory for Reliability Science and
Technology, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry and Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Laboratory for Reliability Science and
Technology, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry and Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
| | - Janine Bär
- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry and Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento
di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
| | - Norberto Masciocchi
- Dipartimento
di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
- Istituto
di Crystallografia and To.Sca.Lab, Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche, Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry and Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Laboratory for Reliability Science and
Technology, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Laboratory for Reliability Science and
Technology, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry and Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Laboratory for Reliability Science and
Technology, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry and Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry and Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics and Laboratory for Reliability Science and
Technology, Empa−Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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Protesescu L, Yakunin S, Kumar S, Bär J, Bertolotti F, Masciocchi N, Guagliardi A, Grotevent M, Shorubalko I, Bodnarchuk MI, Shih CJ, Kovalenko MV. Dismantling the "Red Wall" of Colloidal Perovskites: Highly Luminescent Formamidinium and Formamidinium-Cesium Lead Iodide Nanocrystals. ACS Nano 2017; 11:3119-3134. [PMID: 28231432 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b00116/suppl_file/nn7b00116_si_001.pdf] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) of APbX3-type lead halide perovskites [A = Cs+, CH3NH3+ (methylammonium or MA+) or CH(NH2)2+ (formamidinium or FA+); X = Cl-, Br-, I-] have recently emerged as highly versatile photonic sources for applications ranging from simple photoluminescence down-conversion (e.g., for display backlighting) to light-emitting diodes. From the perspective of spectral coverage, a formidable challenge facing the use of these materials is how to obtain stable emissions in the red and infrared spectral regions covered by the iodide-based compositions. So far, red-emissive CsPbI3 NCs have been shown to suffer from a delayed phase transformation into a nonluminescent, wide-band-gap 1D polymorph, and MAPbI3 exhibits very limited chemical durability. In this work, we report a facile colloidal synthesis method for obtaining FAPbI3 and FA-doped CsPbI3 NCs that are uniform in size (10-15 nm) and nearly cubic in shape and exhibit drastically higher robustness than their MA- or Cs-only cousins with similar sizes and morphologies. Detailed structural analysis indicated that the FAPbI3 NCs had a cubic crystal structure, while the FA0.1Cs0.9PbI3 NCs had a 3D orthorhombic structure that was isostructural to the structure of CsPbBr3 NCs. Bright photoluminescence (PL) with high quantum yield (QY > 70%) spanning red (690 nm, FA0.1Cs0.9PbI3 NCs) and near-infrared (near-IR, ca. 780 nm, FAPbI3 NCs) regions was sustained for several months or more in both the colloidal state and in films. The peak PL wavelengths can be fine-tuned by using postsynthetic cation- and anion-exchange reactions. Amplified spontaneous emissions with low thresholds of 28 and 7.5 μJ cm-2 were obtained from the films deposited from FA0.1Cs0.9PbI3 and FAPbI3 NCs, respectively. Furthermore, light-emitting diodes with a high external quantum efficiency of 2.3% were obtained by using FAPbI3 NCs.
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- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell'Insubria , Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell'Insubria , Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell'Insubria , Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
- Istituto di Crystallografia and To.Sca.Lab, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
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Protesescu L, Yakunin S, Bodnarchuk MI, Bertolotti F, Masciocchi N, Guagliardi A, Kovalenko MV. Monodisperse Formamidinium Lead Bromide Nanocrystals with Bright and Stable Green Photoluminescence. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:14202-14205. [PMID: 27737545 PMCID: PMC5799874 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b08900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
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Bright green emitters
with adjustable photoluminescence (PL) maxima
in the range of 530–535 nm and full-width at half-maxima (fwhm)
of <25 nm are particularly desirable for applications in television
displays and related technologies. Toward this goal, we have developed
a facile synthesis of highly monodisperse, cubic-shaped formamidinium
lead bromide nanocrystals (FAPbBr3 NCs) with perovskite
crystal structure, tunable PL in the range of 470–540 nm by
adjusting the nanocrystal size (5–12 nm), high quantum yield
(QY) of up to 85% and PL fwhm of <22 nm. High QYs are also retained
in films of FAPbBr3 NCs. In addition, these films exhibit
low thresholds of 14 ± 2 μJ cm–2 for
amplified spontaneous emission.
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Affiliation(s)
- Loredana Protesescu
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.,Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.,Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Maryna I Bodnarchuk
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.,Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
| | - Federica Bertolotti
- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell'Insubria , via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
| | - Norberto Masciocchi
- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell'Insubria , via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
| | - Antonietta Guagliardi
- Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia and To.Sca.Lab, Università dell'Insubria , via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy.,Istituto di Crystallografia and To.Sca.Lab, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich , Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.,Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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