Measuring Exciton Fine-Structure in Randomly Oriented Perovskite Nanocrystal Ensembles Using Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy: Theory

Abstract

Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) exhibit unique optoelectronic properties, many of which originate from a purported bright-triplet exciton fine-structure. A major impediment to measuring this fine-structure is inhomogeneous spectral broadening, which has limited most experimental studies to single-nanocrystal spectroscopies. It is shown here that the linearly polarized single-particle selection rules in PNCs are preserved in nonlinear spectroscopies of randomly oriented ensembles. Simulations incorporating rotational averaging demonstrate that techniques such as transient absorption and two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy are capable of resolving exciton fine-structure in PNCs, even in the presence of inhomogeneous broadening and orientation disorder.

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“…Perhaps the most powerful capability of MDCS is to project homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening mechanisms into orthogonal directions in a 'one-quantum spectrum' [35], which correlates absorption and emission dynamics of a material via Fourier transform along the two time axes {τ, t} in figure 11(b). In this way, homogeneous lineshapes may be directly resolved in an inhomogeneously-broadened nanocrystal ensemble without isolating single emitters [52].…”