Understanding Thermal and A-Thermal Trapping Processes in Lead Halide Perovskites Towards Effective Radiation Detection Schemes
Carmelita Rodà a, Mauro Fasoli a, Matteo Zaffalon a, Francesca Cova a, Valerio Pinchetti a, Javad Shamsi b, Ahmed Abdelhady b, Muhammad Imran b, Francesco Meinardi a, Liberato Manna b, Anna Vedda a, Sergio Brovelli a
a Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, 20125 Milano, Italy
b Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, Genova, IT-16163 Italy
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS23 & Sustainable Technology Forum València (STECH23) (MATSUS23)
#PhotoPero23 - Photophysics of halide perovskites and related materials – from bulk to nano
VALÈNCIA, Spain, 2023 March 6th - 10th
Organizers: Sascha Feldmann, Maksym Kovalenko and Jovana Milic
Oral, Matteo Zaffalon, presentation 137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsus.2023.137
Publication date: 22nd December 2022

Lead halide perovskites (LHP) are rapidly emerging as efficient, low-cost, solution-processable scintillators for radiation detection [1], [2]. Carrier trapping is arguably the most critical limitation to the scintillation performance [3], [4]. Nonetheless, no clear picture of the trapping and detrapping mechanisms to/from shallow and deep trap states involved in the scintillation process has been reported to date, as well as on the role of the material dimensionality. In this talk, this issue is addressed by performing, for the first time, a comprehensive study using radioluminescence and photoluminescence measurements side-by-side to thermally-stimulated luminescence (TSL) and afterglow experiments on CsPbBr3 with increasing dimensionality, namely nanocubes, nanowires, nanosheets, and bulk crystals. All systems are found to be affected by shallow defects resulting in delayed intragap emission following detrapping via a-thermal tunneling. TSL further reveals the existence of additional temperature-activated detrapping pathways from deeper trap states, whose effect grows with the material dimensionality, becoming the dominant process in bulk crystals. These results highlight that, compared to massive solids where the suppression of both deep and shallow defects is critical, low dimensional nanostructures are more promising active materials for LHP scintillators, provided that their integration in functional devices meets efficient surface engineering.

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