Hot-carrier cooling and photoinduced refractive index changes in organic–inorganic lead halide perovskites

Michael B. Price, Justinas Butkus, Tom C. Jellicoe, Aditya Sadhanala, Anouk Briane, Jonathan E. Halpert, Katharina Broch, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Richard H. Friend and Felix Deschler ()
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Michael B. Price: Cavendish Laboratory
Justinas Butkus: The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
Tom C. Jellicoe: Cavendish Laboratory
Aditya Sadhanala: Cavendish Laboratory
Anouk Briane: The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
Jonathan E. Halpert: The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
Katharina Broch: Cavendish Laboratory
Justin M. Hodgkiss: The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
Richard H. Friend: Cavendish Laboratory
Felix Deschler: Cavendish Laboratory

Nature Communications, 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Metal-halide perovskites are at the frontier of optoelectronic research due to solution processability and excellent semiconductor properties. Here we use transient absorption spectroscopy to study hot-carrier distributions in CH3NH3PbI3 and quantify key semiconductor parameters. Above bandgap, non-resonant excitation creates quasi-thermalized carrier distributions within 100 fs. During carrier cooling, a sub-bandgap transient absorption signal arises at ∼1.6 eV, which is explained by the interplay of bandgap renormalization and hot-carrier distributions. At higher excitation densities, a ‘phonon bottleneck’ substantially slows carrier cooling. This effect indicates a low contribution from inelastic carrier-impurity or phonon–impurity scattering in these polycrystalline materials, which supports high charge-carrier mobilities. Photoinduced reflectivity changes distort the shape of transient absorption spectra and must be included to extract physical constants. Using a simple band-filling model that accounts for these changes, we determine a small effective mass of mr=0.14 mo, which agrees with band structure calculations and high photovoltaic performance.

Date: 2015
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