Luminescence fine structures in single lead Halide perovskite nanocrystals: Size dependence of the exciton--phonon coupling

Abstract

Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) have superior photoluminescence (PL) properties, such as high PL quantum yields and wide PL wavelength tunability, for optoelectronic applications. Here, we report the PL spectra of single formamidinium lead halide perovskite FAPbX3 (X = Br, I) NCs examined by single-dot spectroscopy at low temperature. We found four PL peaks in the low-energy region below the strong exciton PL peak that originate from two longitudinal-optical (LO) phonon replicas of the exciton PL, biexcitons, and charged excitons (trions). The binding energies of the biexcitons and trions become larger as the NCs decrease in size. The LO phonon energies show no size dependence, but the Huang–Rhys factors, which reflect the strength of the exciton–phonon coupling, become larger for smaller NCs. Our findings provide important insights into the exciton properties of perovskite NCs.

Terumasa Tadano

Researcher of Materials Science

My research interests include development of computational methods and softwares for predicting thermal properties of solids, and application of machine-learning methods to material science study