The Impact of Localization on Exciton Polarons and Bipolarons in Fully Inorganic Perovskite Quantum Wells
Pieter Geiregat a b, Justin Hodgkiss a b, Kai Chen c, ZegerJustin Hens a b
a Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures group (PCN), Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, Gent 9000, Belgium
b NOLIMITS Center for Non-Linear Microscopy and Spectroscopy, Ghent University, Belgium
c Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
d School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
Proceedings of MATSUS Fall 2025 Conference (MATSUSFall25)
E4 (Ultrafast) Spectroscopy for Energy Materials - #SpEM
València, Spain, 2025 October 20th - 24th
Organizers: Jaco Geuchies and Freddy Rabouw
Oral, Pieter Geiregat, presentation 040
Publication date: 21st July 2025

Semiconducting perovskites hold great promise for demanding applications involving light emission, such as scintillators or lasers. Within this family of materials, fully inorganic two-dimensional (2D) CsPbBr3 perovskite quantum wells sustain stable and bright 2D excitons, yet little is known on the nature of these excitons, and possible multi-exciton complexes thereof, which dictate the spontaneous and, hereto unexplored, stimulated emission processes. Here, we first show that at low density charge carriers exist as strongly localized exciton-polarons (Xp), complexes between a charge neutral exciton and lattice phonons. Next, we show that at increasing density these Xp fuse together to form a stable bi-exciton polaron, or bipolaron in short, X2P with singlet character. X2P’s are again subject to strong localization, which leads to an observable, but weak, net stimulated emission across the X2 →XP recombination pathway. Our results provide a general framework to understand the energetics and interactions of both single and multi-polaron states in 2D perovskite materials and their ensuing (radiative) recombination pathways, which is key in developing future opto-electronic applications of these intriguing class of 2D materials.

 

 

 
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