Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV24)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.hopv.2024.070
Publication date: 6th February 2024
Halide perovskites are promising semiconductors for next-generation optoelectronic and spintronic applications. Yet, we still don’t fully understand what governs the charge and spin dynamics in these materials. This is especially true when studying device-relevant thin films of halide perovskites, which lack single-crystalline perfection.
In this talk, I will give an overview of our recent efforts to understand the spin-optoelectronic performance of these films better by using time-, space- and polarization-resolved spectroscopy and microscopy. We will find that the energetically heterogeneous energy landscape in mixed-halide perovskites can lead to the local accumulation of charges, with unexpected consequences for devices [1]; how despite strong differences in vertical diffusivity and across grains charge extraction can remain very efficient [2], and how locally varying degrees of symmetry-breaking drive spin domain formation [3,4] in this fascinating class of solution-processable semiconductors.
Time permitting, I will conclude with briefly outlining the fundamentals & artifacts involved in measuring circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) reliably [4,5], and show our most recent development of full Stokes-vector polarimetry with unprecedented time- and polarization resolution to track the emergence of chiral light emission.
[1] Nature Photonics 14, 123 (2020)
[2] Nature Materials 21, 1388 (2022)
[3] Nature Materials 22, 977 (2023)
[4] Nature Reviews Materials 8, 365 (2023)
[5] Advanced Materials 35, 2302279 (2023)