The dark exciton ground state promotes photon-pair emission in individual perovskite nanocrystals

Philippe Tamarat, Lei Hou, Jean-Baptiste Trebbia, Abhishek Swarnkar, Louis Biadala, Yann Louyer, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Maksym V. Kovalenko, Jacky Even and Brahim Lounis ()
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Philippe Tamarat: LP2N
Lei Hou: LP2N
Jean-Baptiste Trebbia: LP2N
Abhishek Swarnkar: Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Louis Biadala: CNRS
Yann Louyer: University of Bordeaux
Maryna I. Bodnarchuk: Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Maksym V. Kovalenko: Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Jacky Even: Institut FOTON - UMR 6082
Brahim Lounis: LP2N

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Cesium lead halide perovskites exhibit outstanding optical and electronic properties for a wide range of applications in optoelectronics and for light-emitting devices. Yet, the physics of the band-edge exciton, whose recombination is at the origin of the photoluminescence, is not elucidated. Here, we unveil the exciton fine structure of individual cesium lead iodide perovskite nanocrystals and demonstrate that it is governed by the electron-hole exchange interaction and nanocrystal shape anisotropy. The lowest-energy exciton state is a long-lived dark singlet state, which promotes the creation of biexcitons at low temperatures and thus correlated photon pairs. These bright quantum emitters in the near-infrared have a photon statistics that can readily be tuned from bunching to antibunching, using magnetic or thermal coupling between dark and bright exciton sublevels.

Date: 2020
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