Issue 2, 2021

Efficient interlayer exciton transport in two-dimensional metal-halide perovskites

Abstract

Two-dimensional (2D) metal-halide perovskites are attractive for use in light harvesting and light emitting devices, presenting improved stability as compared to the more conventional three-dimensional perovskite phases. Significant attention has been paid to influencing the layer orientation of 2D perovskite phases, with the charge-carrier transport through the plane of the material being orders of magnitude more efficient than the interlayer transport. Importantly though, the thinnest members of the 2D perovskite family exhibit strong exciton binding energies, suggesting that interlayer energy transport mediated by dipole–dipole coupling may be relevant. We present transient microscopy measurements of the interlayer energy transport in the (PEA)2PbI4 perovskite. We find efficient interlayer exciton transport (0.06 cm2 s−1), which translates into a diffusion length that exceeds 100 nm and a sub-ps timescale for energy transfer. While still slower than the in-plane exciton transport (0.2 cm2 s−1), our results show that excitonic energy transport is considerably less anisotropic than charge-carrier transport for 2D perovskites.

Graphical abstract: Efficient interlayer exciton transport in two-dimensional metal-halide perovskites

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
26 Oct 2020
Accepted
25 Nov 2020
First published
26 Nov 2020

Mater. Horiz., 2021,8, 639-644

Efficient interlayer exciton transport in two-dimensional metal-halide perovskites

A. J. Magdaleno, M. Seitz, M. Frising, A. Herranz de la Cruz, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez and F. Prins, Mater. Horiz., 2021, 8, 639 DOI: 10.1039/D0MH01723J

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