Non-Hydrogenic Nature of Excitonic Interactions in Lead Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets and Nanocrystals
Juan Ignacio Climente a, Jose Luis Movilla b, Josep Planelles a
a Departament de Química Física i Analítica, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Sos Baynat s/n, 12071 Castelló, Spain
b Departament d'Educació i Didàctiques Específiques, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Sos Baynat s/n, 12071, Castelló, Spain
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference (MATSUSSpring25)
Photophysics of metal halide perovskites: from fundamentals to emerging applications - #PeroLight
Sevilla, Spain, 2025 March 3rd - 7th
Organizers: Ivan Scheblykin and Yana Vaynzof
Oral, Juan Ignacio Climente, presentation 025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.025
Publication date: 16th December 2024

There is recent evidence that, upon polaron formation, excitonic interactions in bulk lead halide perovskites experience different dielectric screening at short and long distances.[1,2] Above  the polaron radius, static dielectric screening prevails. Under the polaron radius, dynamic screening prevails instead.

Here we investigate how such non-hydrogenic interactions affect the electronic structure of excitons, trions and biexcitons in confined halide perovskites: nanoplatelets and nanocrystals. To do so we develop a theoretical model which accounts for the main physical factors in these systems: (i) quantum confinement, through k·p theory, (ii) dielectric confinement, through image charge methods, (iii) electronic correlations, through a variational Quantum Monte Carlo method, and (iv) polaronic interactions, through Haken-like potentials.

We show that trions are formed by an exciton plus an excess carrier orbiting at longer distances, which reveals a significant ionic character of the bond. Biexcitons are formed by two excitons with strong intra-exciton interactions, and weaker inter-exciton ones. Polaronic interactions lead to large binding energies for excitons, trions and biexcitons. These are in good agreement with experimental measurements of nanoplatelets and Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites.[3-5] For nanocrystals, however, biexciton binding energies are systematically smaller than experimental values. This suggests excitons and biexcitons polarize the lattice differently.

We acknowledge support from Grant No. PID2021-128659NB-I00, funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and ERDF A way of
making Europe)

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