Abstract
Two-dimensional (2D) perovskites with the general formula APbX are attracting increasing interest as solution processable, white-light emissive materials. Recent studies have shown that their broadband emission is related to the formation of intra-gap colour centres. Here, we provide an in-depth description of the charge localization sites underlying the generation of such radiative centres and their corresponding decay dynamics, highlighting the formation of small polarons trapped within their lattice distortion field. Using a combination of spectroscopic techniques and first-principles calculations to study the white-light emitting 2D perovskites (EDBE)PbCl and (EDBE)PbBr, we infer the formation of Pb , Pb, and X (where X = Cl or Br) species confined within the inorganic perovskite framework. Due to strong Coulombic interactions, these species retain their original excitonic character and form self-trapped polaron-excitons acting as radiative colour centres. These findings are expected to be relevant for a broad class of white-light emitting perovskites with large polaron relaxation energy.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2771-2780 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | J. Mater. Chem. C |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| State | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: We thank Ting Ting for help with Raman measurements. Research at NTU was supported by the Ministry of Education (ref. No. MOE2013-T2-1-044 and MOE2011-T3-1-005) and the National Research Foundation (ref. No. NRF-CRP14-2014-03) of Singapore. JY and JLB acknowledge support from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and thank the IT Research Computing Team and Supercomputing Laboratory at KAUST for computational and storage resources.