Publication date: 15th December 2025
Halide perovskites exhibit remarkable optoelectronic properties that make them exceptional candidates for high-performance absorbers in perovskite photovoltaics and for bright emitters in light-emitting devices, lasers, and quantum photonic applications. Power-conversion efficiencies in perovskite solar cells have now surpassed 25%, and external quantum efficiencies in perovskite LEDs have exceeded 20%. These rapid advances are driven by their extraordinary intrinsic attributes, including strong optical absorption, defect tolerance, substantial spin-orbit coupling, long and balanced charge-carrier diffusion lengths, slow hot-carrier cooling, ion transport, and radiation hardness.
As a result, the scope of perovskite applications has expanded far beyond solar cells and LEDs to encompass spintronics, radiation detection, memristor devices, bioimaging, and quantum light sources such as single-photon emitters. Their structural versatility and diverse dimensionalities offer powerful handles for tailoring photophysical behavior ranging from surface engineering of colloidal perovskite nanocrystals via a rich ligand toolbox to energy-landscape manipulation in layered perovskites using a wide variety of large organic cations.
In this talk, I will discuss key photophysical mechanisms in low-dimensional perovskite emitters, focusing on colloidal nanocrystals and layered perovskites. I will also highlight our recent progress in engineering perovskite single-photon emitters and perovskite superlattice superfluorescence.
