Ionic-instability induced color tuning in lead-based, mixed-halide perovskites

TL;DR

This study investigates how ionic instabilities in lead-based mixed-halide perovskites enable stable intermediate photoluminescence energies during photosegregation, revealing new insights into color tuning and kinetic stabilization mechanisms.

Contribution

It introduces a kinetic model explaining the formation of intermediate energies in mixed-halide perovskites under pulsed laser excitation, advancing understanding of their photosegregation behavior.

Findings

Intermediate photoluminescence energies are kinetically stabilized during photosegregation.

The model explains how laser parameters influence energy states and spectral shifts.

Insights into pulsed illumination effects on perovskite photosegregation are provided.

Abstract

Contrary to conventional wisdom, intermediate photoluminescence energies can be stabilized in mixed-halide lead perovskites during photosegregation. These intermediate energies reside between those of the parent, mixed-halide alloy and fully photosegregated specimens. This demonstrates rudimentary color tuning and has practical implications for potential uses of mixed-halide perovskites in lighting applications. More fundamentally, such color tuning begs the question of how intermediate photosegregation energies arise and how they are kinetically stabilized. What follows is a study of the kinetics of terminal photosegregation energies under pulsed laser excitation. Through concerted continuous wave and pulsed laser photosegregation measurements, we develop a kinetic rationalization for how photosegregations repetition rate or duty cycle and peak fluence dependencies lead to intermediate, terminal photoluminescence energies. The developed model, in turn, explains prior observations of pulsed illumination photosegregation and offers potential insights into other, yet to be explained, phenomena such as spectral blueshifting under high intensity, pulsed illumination.