Phonon coherences reveal the polaronic character of excitons in two-dimensional lead halide perovskites
Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada a b c, Felix Thouin b, David Valverde-Chavez c, Claudio Quarti d, Daniele Cortecchia a, Ilaria Bargigia c, David Beljonne d, Annamaria Petrozza a, Carlos Silva b c
a Center for Nano Science and Tecnology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Pascoli 70/3, Milano, Italy
b School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
c School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, US, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
d Department of Chemistry, Universite de Mons, Belgium
Proceedings of Interfaces in Organic and Hybrid Thin-Film Optoelectronics (INFORM)
València, Spain, 2019 March 5th - 7th
Organizers: Natalie Stingelin, Henk Bolink and Michele Sessolo
Oral, Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada, presentation 051
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.inform.2019.051
Publication date: 8th January 2019

Two-dimensional hybrid lead halide perovskite derivatives have garnered considerable interest for opto-electronic applications, due to the presence of strongly bound and stable excitons even at room temperature. While the excitons in these systems seem to be analogous to those in semiconductor quantum wells, polar lattice fluctuations and dynamic disorder give rise to strong exciton-phonon coupling effects. We have recently identified clear signatures of polaronic effects on the excitonic correlations via quantitative analysis of linear and non-linear optical spectral[1][2]. Here, we establish that the dynamic structural complexity in a prototypical 2D lead iodide perovskite results in the coexistance of diverse exciton resonances, each with distict degree of polaronic character. We coherently excite and probe vibrational wavepacket dynamics by means of high resolution impulsive stimulated Raman spectroscopy, that evolve along different configurational coordinates defined by the normal vibrational modes of the lattice. Based on density functional theory calculations, we assign the observed vibrational modes to various low-frequency (< 50 cm-1) optical phonons involving the motion within the lead iodide layer. We demonstrate that different excitons induce specific lattice reorganizations, which are signatures of their polaronic binding. 

 

 

  

A.R.S.K. acknowledges funding from EU Horizon 2020 via a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship (Global) (Project no. 705874).

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