Manipulating perovskite structural asymmetry for high-performing self-powered full-stokes polarimetry.

Chen, Quanlin; Ge, Mingwei; Geng, Cong; Zhang, Jia; Gao, Linyue; Huang, Zhuanzhuan; Wang, Saike; Feng, Yanxing et al. · Sci Adv · 2025

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Developing direct full-stokes imaging polarimetry is essential for various applications but remains challenging. Perovskites have superior optoelectronic properties and structural diversity, making them ideal candidates for high-performing direct full-stokes polarimetry. However, perovskite suffers low chiroptical activity due to inefficient chiral transfer, which greatly limits its circular-polarization-vector discrimination. These issues urgently require remedy. Here, we demonstrate that perovskites' chiroptical activity is highly related to their structural chiral-distortion extent. We propose using halide mixing to construct asymmetric chiral transfer to heighten its structural chiral-distortion extent. Accordingly, we report a 16-fold increment in the optical chiroptical activity. Further ab initio calculations verify that the enhancement is due to the strengthened magnetic transition dipole in mixed-halide structures. We herein report a self-powered, direct full-Stokes polarimetry with a high detectivity up to 1.2 × 10<sup>12</sup> Jones and low detection errors (Δ<i>S</i><sub>1-3</sub> ≤ 5.0%). We further showcase their application in full-stokes imaging polarimetry with the lowest detection errors yet.