Giant photoluminescence blinking of perovskite nanocrystals reveals single-trap control of luminescence.

Tian, Yuxi; Merdasa, Aboma; Peter, Maximilian; Abdellah, Mohamed; Zheng, Kaibo; Ponseca, Carlito S; Pullerits, Tõnu; Yartsev, Arkady et al. · Nano Lett · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Fluorescence super-resolution microscopy showed correlated fluctuations of photoluminescence intensity and spatial localization of individual perovskite (CH3NH3PbI3) nanocrystals of size ∼200 × 30 × 30 nm(3). The photoluminescence blinking amplitude caused by a single quencher was a hundred thousand times larger than that of a typical dye molecule at the same excitation power density. The quencher is proposed to be a chemical or structural defect that traps free charges leading to nonradiative recombination. These trapping sites can be activated and deactivated by light.

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