Quantifying Photoinduced Polaronic Distortions in Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

The development of next-generation perovskite-based optoelectronic devices relies critically on the understanding of the interaction between charge carriers and the polar lattice in out-of-equilibrium conditions. While it has become increasingly evident for CsPbBr3 perovskites that the Pb-Br framework flexibility plays a key role in their light-activated functionality, the corresponding local structural rearrangement has not yet been unambiguously identified. In this work, we demonstrate that the photoinduced lattice changes in the system are due to a specific polaronic distortion, associated with the activation of a longitudinal optical phonon mode at 18 meV by electron-phonon coupling, and we quantify the associated structural changes with atomic-level precision. Key to this achievement is the combination of time-resolved and temperature-dependent studies at Br K and Pb L3 X-ray absorption edges with refined ab initio simulations, which fully account for the screened core-hole final state effects on the X-ray absorption spectra. From the temporal kinetics, we show that carrier recombination reversibly unlocks the structural deformation at both Br and Pb sites. The comparison with the temperature-dependent XAS results rules out thermal effects as the primary source of distortion of the Pb-Br bonding motif during photoexcitation. Our work provides a comprehensive description of the CsPbBr3 perovskites' photophysics, offering novel insights on the light-induced response of the system and its exceptional optoelectronic properties.

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2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:143

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Journal of the American Chemical Society - 143(2021), 24 vom: 23. Juni, Seite 9048-9059

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Englisch

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Cannelli, Oliviero [VerfasserIn]
Colonna, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Puppin, Michele [VerfasserIn]
Rossi, Thomas C [VerfasserIn]
Kinschel, Dominik [VerfasserIn]
Leroy, Ludmila M D [VerfasserIn]
Löffler, Janina [VerfasserIn]
Budarz, James M [VerfasserIn]
March, Anne Marie [VerfasserIn]
Doumy, Gilles [VerfasserIn]
Al Haddad, Andre [VerfasserIn]
Tu, Ming-Feng [VerfasserIn]
Kumagai, Yoshiaki [VerfasserIn]
Walko, Donald [VerfasserIn]
Smolentsev, Grigory [VerfasserIn]
Krieg, Franziska [VerfasserIn]
Boehme, Simon C [VerfasserIn]
Kovalenko, Maksym V [VerfasserIn]
Chergui, Majed [VerfasserIn]
Mancini, Giulia F [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 02.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1021/jacs.1c02403

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NLM326242317