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Dmitriy Dovzhenko, Denis Aristov, Lucinda Pickup, Helgi Sigurðsson, Pavlos Lagoudakis

Next-nearest-neighbor coupling with spinor polariton condensates

We report on experimental observation of next-nearest-neighbor coupling between ballistically expanding spinor exciton-polariton condensates in a planar semiconductor microcavity. All-optical control over the coupling strength between neighboring condensates is demonstrated through distance-periodic pseudospin screening of their ballistic particle outflow due to the inherent splitting of the planar cavity transverse-electric and transverse-magnetic modes. By screening the nearest-neighbor coupling we overcome the conventional spatial coupling hierarchy between condensates. This offers a promising route toward creating unconventional nonplanar many-body Hamiltonians using networks of ballistically expanding spinor exciton-polariton condensates.

Exporter la référence : Phys. Rev. B 2023, 108, L161301
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Denis Aristov, Stepan Baryshev, Julian D. Töpfer, Helgi Sigurðsson, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

Directional planar antennae in polariton condensates

We report on the realization of all-optical planar microlensing for exciton–polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities. We utilize spatial light modulators to structure a nonresonant pumping beam into a plano–concave lens-shape focused onto the microcavity plane. When pumped above condensation threshold, the system effectively becomes a directional polariton antenna, generating an intense focused beam of coherent polaritons away from the pump region. The effects of pump intensity, which regulates the interplay between gain and blueshift of polaritons, as well as the geometry of the lens-shaped pump are studied, and a strategy to optimize the focusing of the condensate is proposed. Our work underpins the feasibility to guide nonlinear light in microcavities using nonresonant excitation schemes, offering perspectives on optically reprogramable on-chip polariton circuitry.

Exporter la référence : Appl. Phys. Lett. 2023, 123, 121101
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Ben P. Carwithen, et al.

Confinement and Exciton Binding Energy Effects on Hot Carrier Cooling in Lead Halide Perovskite Nanomaterials

The relaxation of the above-gap (“hot”) carriers in lead halide perovskites (LHPs) is important for applications in photovoltaics and offers insights into carrier–carrier and carrier–phonon interactions. However, the role of quantum confinement in the hot carrier dynamics of nanosystems is still disputed. Here, we devise a single approach, ultrafast pump–push–probe spectroscopy, to study carrier cooling in six different size-controlled LHP nanomaterials. In cuboidal nanocrystals, we observe only a weak size effect on the cooling dynamics. In contrast, two-dimensional systems show suppression of the hot phonon bottleneck effect common in bulk perovskites. The proposed kinetic model describes the intrinsic and density-dependent cooling times accurately in all studied perovskite systems using only carrier–carrier, carrier–phonon, and excitonic coupling constants. This highlights the impact of exciton formation on carrier cooling and promotes dimensional confinement as a tool for engineering carrier–phonon and carrier–carrier interactions in LHP optoelectronic materials.

Exporter la référence : ACS Nano 2023, 17, 6638
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Julia Nette, Federico Montanarella, Chenglian Zhu, Taras V. Sekh, Simon C. Boehme, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Gabriele Rainò, Philip D. Howes, Maksym V. Kovalenko, Andrew J. deMello

Microfluidic synthesis of monodisperse and size-tunable CsPbBr3 supraparticles

The highly controlled, microfluidic template-assisted self-assembly of CsPbBr3 nanocrystals into spherical supraparticles is presented, achieving precise control over average supraparticle size through the variation of nanocrystal concentration and droplet size; thus facilitating the synthesis of highly monodisperse, sub-micron supraparticles (with diameters between 280 and 700 nm).

Exporter la référence : Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 3554
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Alexandre Abhervé, Nicolas Mercier, Anil Kumar, Tapan Kumar Das, Jacky Even, Claudine Katan, Mikaël Kepenekian

Chirality Versus Symmetry: Electron's Spin Selectivity in Non-Polar Chiral Lead-Bromide Perovskites

In the last decade, chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), the spin-selective electron transport through chiral molecules, has been described in a large range of materials, from insulators to superconductors. Because more experimental studies are desired for the theoretical understanding of the CISS effect, chiral metal-halide semiconductors may contribute to the field thanks to their chiroptical and spintronic properties. In this regard, we use new chiral organic cations S-HP1A and R-HP1A (HP1A = 2-hydroxy-propyl-1-ammonium) to prepare two-dimensional (2D) chiral halide perovskites (HPs) which crystallize in the enantiomorphic space groups P43212 and P41212, respectively. The four-fold symmetry induces antiferroelectricity along the stacking axis which, combined to incomplete Rashba-like splitting in each individual 2D polar layer, results in rare spin textures in the band structure. As revealed by magnetic conductive-probe AFM measurements, these materials show CISS effect with partial spin polarization (±40-45%). This incomplete effect is efficient enough to drive a chiro-spintronic device as demonstrated by the fabrication of spin valve devices with magnetoresistance responses up to 250 K. Therefore, these stable lead-bromide HP materials not only represent interesting candidates for spintronic applications but also reveal the importance of polar symmetry-breaking topology for spin selectivity.

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Marios Zacharias, George Volonakis, Feliciano Giustino, Jacky Even

Anharmonic electron-phonon coupling in ultrasoft and locally disordered perovskites

Anharmonicity and local disorder (polymorphism) are ubiquitous in perovskite physics, inducing various phenomena observed in scattering and spectroscopy experiments. Several of these phenomena still lack interpretation from first principles since, hitherto, no approach is available to account for anharmonicity and disorder in electron–phonon couplings. Here, relying on the special displacement method, we develop a unified treatment of both and demonstrate that electron–phonon coupling is strongly influenced when we employ polymorphous perovskite networks. We uncover that polymorphism in halide perovskites leads to vibrational dynamics far from the ideal noninteracting phonon picture and drives the gradual change in their band gap around phase transition temperatures. We also clarify that combined band gap corrections arising from disorder, spin-orbit coupling, exchange–correlation functionals of high accuracy, and electron–phonon coupling are all essential. Our findings agree with experiments, suggesting that polymorphism is the key to address pending questions on perovskites’ technological applications.

Exporter la référence : npj Comput. Mater. 2023, 9, 153
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Pooja Basera, Boubacar Traoré, Jacky Even, Claudine Katan

Interfacial engineering to modulate surface dipoles, work functions and dielectric confinement of halide perovskites

The interfacial properties between perovskite photoactive and charge transport layers are critical for device performance and operational stability. Therefore, an accurate theoretical description of the link between surface dipoles and work functions is of scientific and practical interest. We show that for a CsPbBr3 perovskite surface functionalized by dipolar ligand molecules, the interplay between surface dipoles, charge transfers, and local strain effects leads to upward or downward shifts of the valence level. We further demonstrate that the contribution of individual molecular entities to the surface dipoles and electric susceptibilities are essentially additive. Finally, we compare our results to those predicted from conventional classical approaches based on a capacitor model that links the induced vacuum level shift and the molecular dipole moment. Our findings identify recipes to fine-tune materials work functions that provide valuable insights into the interfacial engineering of this family of semiconductors.

Exporter la référence : Nanoscale 2023, 15, 11884
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Claudio Quarti, Giacomo Giorgi, Claudine Katan, Jacky Even, Maurizia Palummo

Exciton Ground State Fine Structure and Excited States Landscape in Layered Halide Perovskites from Combined BSE Simulations and Symmetry Analysis

Layered halide perovskites are solution-processed natural heterostructures where quantum and dielectric confinement down to the nanoscale strongly influence the optical properties, leading to stabilization of bound excitons. Detailed understanding of the exciton properties is crucial to boost the exploitation of these materials in energy conversion and light emission applications, with ongoing debate related to the energy order of the four components of the most stable exciton. To provide theoretical feedback and solve among contrasting literature reports, this work performs ab initio solution of the Bethe–Salpeter equation (BSE) for symmetrized reference Cs2PbX4 (X = I and Br) models, with detailed interpretation of the spectroscopic observables based on group-theory analysis. Simulations predict the following Edark < Ein-plane < Eout-of-plane fine-structure assignment, consistent with recent magneto-absorption experiments and obtain similar increase in dark/bright splitting when going from lead-iodide to a lead-bromide composition as found experimentally. The authors further suggest that polar distortions may lead to stabilization of the in-plane component and end-up in a bright lowest exciton component, discuss exciton landscape over a broad energy range and clarify the exciton spin-character, when large spin-orbit coupling is in play, to rationalize the potential of halide perovskites as triplet sensitizers in combination with organic dyes.

Exporter la référence : Adv. Optical Mater. 2202801 (2023)
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Simon C. Boehme, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Max Burian, Federica Bertolotti, Ihor Cherniukh, Caterina Bernasconi, Chenglian Zhu, Rolf Erni, Heinz Amenitsch, Denys Naumenko, Hordii Andrusiv, ..., Gabriele Rainò, Antonietta Guagliardi, Maksym V. Kovalenko

Strongly Confined CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots as Quantum Emitters and Building Blocks for Rhombic Superlattices

The success of the colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) field is rooted in the precise synthetic control of QD size, shape, and composition, enabling electronically well-defined functional nanomaterials that foster fundamental science and motivate diverse fields of applications. While the exploitation of the strong confinement regime has been driving commercial and scientific interest in InP or CdSe QDs, such a regime has still not been thoroughly explored and exploited for lead-halide perovskite QDs, mainly due to a so far insufficient chemical stability and size monodispersity of perovskite QDs smaller than about 7 nm. Here, we demonstrate chemically stable strongly confined 5 nm CsPbBr3 colloidal QDs via a postsynthetic treatment employing didodecyldimethylammonium bromide ligands. The achieved high size monodispersity (7.5% ± 2.0%) and shape-uniformity enables the selfassembly of QD superlattices with exceptional long-range order, uniform thickness, an unusual rhombic packing with an obtuse angle of 104°, and narrow-band cyan emission. The enhanced chemical stability indicates the promise of strongly confined perovskite QDs for solution-processed single-photon sources, with single QDs showcasing a high single-photon purity of 73% and minimal blinking (78% “on” fraction), both at room temperature.

Exporter la référence : ACS Nano 2023, 17, 3, 2089–2100
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I. Gnusov, S. Harrison, S. Alyatkin, K. Sitnik, J. Töpfer, H. Sigurdsson, P. Lagoudakis

Quantum vortex formation in the “rotating bucket” experiment with polariton condensates

The appearance of quantized vortices in the classical “rotating bucket” experiments of liquid helium and ultracold dilute gases provides the means for fundamental and comparative studies of different superfluids. Here, we realize the rotating bucket experiment for optically trapped quantum fluid of light based on exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate in semiconductor microcavity. We use the beating note of two frequency-stabilized single-mode lasers to generate an asymmetric time-periodic rotating, nonresonant excitation profile that both injects and stirs the condensate through its interaction with a background exciton reservoir. The pump-induced external rotation of the condensate results in the appearance of a corotating quantized vortex. We investigate the rotation frequency dependence and reveal the range of stirring frequencies (from 1 to 4 GHz) that favors quantized vortex formation. We describe the phenomenology using the generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Our results enable the study of polariton superfluidity on a par with other superfluids, as well as deterministic, all-optical control over structured nonlinear light.

Exporter la référence : Sci. Adv. 2023, 9, eadd1299
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