Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2024 Conference (MATSUS24)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsus.2024.357
Publication date: 18th December 2023
Halide perovskite semiconductors can merge the highly efficient operational principles of conventional inorganic semiconductors with the low‑temperature solution processability of emerging organic and hybrid materials, offering a promising route towards cheaply generating electricity as well as light. Following a surge of interest in this class of materials, research on halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) has gathered momentum in the last years. This talk will highlight several recent findings of our group on how the growth of NCs can be influenced by various exogenous cations and acid-based equilibria. We will also discuss our current understanding of halide exchange reactions involving perovskite nanocrystals as well as their heterostructures with other materials. We will outline new synthesis routes to strongly confined perovskite nanocrystals and their optical properties. Also, while most of the emphasis has been put on CsPbX3 perovskite NCs, more recently the so-called double perovskite NCs, having chemical formula A+2B+B3+X6, have been identified as possible alternative materials, together with various other metal halides structures and compositions, often doped with different elements. This talk will also discuss the research efforts of our group on these materials. I will highlight how for example halide double perovskite NCs are less surface tolerant than the corresponding Pb-based perovskites.