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The dark exciton ground state promotes photon-pair emission in individual perovskite nanocrystals

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  • Philippe Tamarat

    (LP2N
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  • Lei Hou

    (LP2N
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  • Jean-Baptiste Trebbia

    (LP2N
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  • Abhishek Swarnkar

    (Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
    ETH Zürich)

  • Louis Biadala

    (CNRS)

  • Yann Louyer

    (University of Bordeaux)

  • Maryna I. Bodnarchuk

    (Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology)

  • Maksym V. Kovalenko

    (Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
    ETH Zürich)

  • Jacky Even

    (Institut FOTON - UMR 6082)

  • Brahim Lounis

    (LP2N
    LP2N)

Abstract

Cesium lead halide perovskites exhibit outstanding optical and electronic properties for a wide range of applications in optoelectronics and for light-emitting devices. Yet, the physics of the band-edge exciton, whose recombination is at the origin of the photoluminescence, is not elucidated. Here, we unveil the exciton fine structure of individual cesium lead iodide perovskite nanocrystals and demonstrate that it is governed by the electron-hole exchange interaction and nanocrystal shape anisotropy. The lowest-energy exciton state is a long-lived dark singlet state, which promotes the creation of biexcitons at low temperatures and thus correlated photon pairs. These bright quantum emitters in the near-infrared have a photon statistics that can readily be tuned from bunching to antibunching, using magnetic or thermal coupling between dark and bright exciton sublevels.

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  • Philippe Tamarat & Lei Hou & Jean-Baptiste Trebbia & Abhishek Swarnkar & Louis Biadala & Yann Louyer & Maryna I. Bodnarchuk & Maksym V. Kovalenko & Jacky Even & Brahim Lounis, 2020. "The dark exciton ground state promotes photon-pair emission in individual perovskite nanocrystals," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-8, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-19740-7
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19740-7
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