Role of Electron-Phonon Coupling in the Thermal Evolution of Bulk Rashba-Like Spin-Split Lead Halide Perovskites Exhibiting Dual-Band Photoluminescence

  • Julian A. Steele
  • , Pascal Puech
  • , Bartomeu Monserrat
  • , Bo Wu
  • , Ruo Xi Yang
  • , Thomas Kirchartz
  • , Haifeng Yuan
  • , Guillaume Fleury
  • , David Giovanni
  • , Eduard Fron
  • , Masoumeh Keshavarz
  • , Elke Debroye
  • , Guofu Zhou
  • , Tze Chien Sum
  • , Aron Walsh
  • , Johan Hofkens
  • , Maarten B.J. Roeffaers

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Abstract

The optoelectronic properties of lead halide perovskites strongly depend on their underlying crystal symmetries and dynamics, sometimes exhibiting a dual photoluminescence (PL) emission via Rashba-like effects. Here we exploit spin- and temperature-dependent PL to study single-crystal APbBr3 (A = Cs and methylammonium; CH3NH3) and evaluate the peak energy, intensity, and line width evolutions of their dual emission. Both perovskites exhibit temperature trends governed by two temperature regimes - above and below approximately 100 K - which impose different carrier scattering and radiative recombination dynamics. With increasing temperature, high-energy optical phonons activate near 100 K to drive energy splitting of the dual bands and induce line width broadening via electron-phonon coupling, with a stronger coupling constant inferred for carriers recombining by the spin-split indirect bands, compared to the direct ones. We find that the unusual thermal evolutions of all-inorganic and hybrid bulk lead bromide perovskites are comparable, suggesting A-site independence and the dominance of dynamic effects, and are best understood within a framework that accounts for Rashba-like effects.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2205-2212
Number of pages8
JournalACS Energy Letters
Volume4
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Sep 2019

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