Tracking charge, spin and light polarization in space & time in halide perovskites
Sascha Feldmann a
a Laboratory for Energy Materials, EPFL
Proceedings of MATSUS Fall 2025 Conference (MATSUSFall25)
A1 Halide Perovskites - Properties, Synthesis and Advanced Characterization - #PeroProp
València, Spain, 2025 October 20th - 24th
Organizers: Kunal Datta and Selina Olthof
Invited Speaker, Sascha Feldmann, presentation 076
Publication date: 21st July 2025

Solution-processable semiconductors like halide perovskites and certain molecules are promising for next-generation spin-optoelectronic applications [1]. Yet, we don’t fully understand what governs spin and light polarization in these materials, and even less how these are affected by chirality [2].

In this talk, I will give an overview of our recent efforts to understand the spin-optoelectronic performance of these materials through time-, space- and polarization-resolved spectroscopy and microscopy.

For investigating halide perovskite films, we pushed broadband circular dichroism to diffraction-limited spatial and 15 fs time resolution for creating a spin cinematography technique to witness the ultrafast formation of spin domains due to local symmetry breaking and spin-momentum locking [3].

I will then briefly explain the fundamentals and artefacts involved in measuring circularly polarized luminescence reliably and introduce an open-access methodology and code to do so [4]. Finally, I will show our most recent development of a transient sensitive broadband full-Stokes spectroscopy with unprecedented time- and polarization resolution to track the emergence of chiral light emission [5].

[1] Nature Reviews Materials 8, 365 (2023).

[2] Nature Reviews Chemistry 9, 208 (2025).

[3] Nature Materials 22, 977 (2023).

[4] Advanced Materials 35, 2302279 (2023).

[5] Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09197-3 (2025).

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