Comparison between perovskites and nitrides ASE threshold density
Abstract
Organometal halide perovskites have recently attracted widespread attention among scientists, as they combine the advantages of low-cost processability with strong light absorption, band-gap tunability from the near-infrared to the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, efficient light emission and charge transport. Such combination of features is unique among solution-processed materials and makes perovskites appealing for several optoelectronic applications, in particular those related to energy sustainability, which could help the advent of a new generation of low-cost but efficient solar cells and large-area light-emitting devices.This chapter reports a critical review of the efforts that scientists have made until now to understand the photophysics of organometal halide perovskites. We address the ongoing debate on the nature of the photoexcited species, namely the role played by free carriers and excitons, the determination of the exciton binding energy as a measure of the Coulomb interaction strength in these materials, the competition between radiative and non-radiative processes, the role and density of charge carrier traps, and last but not least a critical analysis of those phenomena at the base of laser action, highlighting the most relevant results and possible solutions to issues that still remain open.
Keywords
- Hybrid perovskites
- excitons
- free carriers
- amplified spontaneous emission
- laser
1. Introduction
Organometal halide perovskites are solution-processed semiconductors showing efficient charge transport, favorable emission properties, strong light absorption and optical gap tunability from the visible to the near-infrared spectrum [1–16]. Such interesting properties make these materials very appealing for the realization of solar cells and optical emitters [17–19]. Despite the widespread research activities on these novel semiconductors, some fundamental aspects of the photophysics underlying perovskites have been elusive, especially for what concerns the excited state dynamics [20–29]. For instance, due to the hybrid organic–inorganic nature of organometal perovskites, in principle it is not clear if the excited state properties are dominated by bound or unbound electron-hole states, that is excitons or free carriers. While initial reports assumed the presence of excitons, much like in organic materials, recent optical spectroscopy evidences have emerged that the majority of band-edge optical excitations at room temperature appears to be free carriers [6,22,30].
The architecture of a solar cell depends on this feature. Indeed, if the majority of photoexcited carriers happens to be bound electron-hole states, a heterojunction is necessary to split charges and then produce a current flow in a photovoltaic device. On the other hand, if photoexcitation results in the formation of free carriers, the solar cell structure is simplified, since charges are already separated and can be easily collected at the electrodes.
A lively debate has then started to understand the physical reasons that underpin the prevalence of free carriers over excitons. Clearly, within such debate, a precise and reliable determination of the exciton binding energy is of paramount importance. Reports of exciton binding energies have varied widely, from less than 5 meV to over 50 meV [22,30–37]; it has even been suggested that the exciton binding energy may be temperature-dependent, due to ionic screening effects [33,34,38].
Beyond the potential application in photovoltaics, organometal halide perovskites exhibit also excellent emission properties. In fact, amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) was also demonstrated for photoexcited carrier densities above a threshold value [17–19], representing the first step towards a laser device. Until now, many experiments probed optical amplification under impulsive excitation, meaning that the pumping pulse duration is much shorter than the typical lifetime of the excited states of the crystals [17–19,39–41]. In these kinds of experiments, ASE occurs within a sub-nanosecond time window, which is far from the continuous wave (cw) operation of a real laser device. Hence, it is not clear how long these materials can sustain optical amplification and what warming issues and parasitic processes are involved. Understanding these features is crucial in the perspective of the realization of a perovskite-based cw laser [19].
The aim of this chapter is to summarize the progress made in understanding the physics of excitons and free carriers in perovskites, both in the low excitation regime relevant for solar cells and in the high excitation regime needed for optical amplification. Experimental results obtained from optical spectroscopy measurements carried out in the Department of Physics of the University of Cagliari will be analyzed and critically compared with results published by other research groups.
Sections 2–5 of this chapter describe the absorption and the emission properties of pure and mixed methylammonium lead iodide perovskite films (MAPbI3 and MAPbI3-xClx, respectively), showing that the prevailing excited species in these materials is a correlated electron-hole plasma at room temperature, from injected carrier densities typical of solar illumination to those typical to obtain light amplification [30].
An investigation about amplified spontaneous emission in organolead halide perovskites is provided in Sections 6–10, where both the temporal and the spectral photoluminescence (PL) signals have been studied under short- and long-pulsed excitation at high laser fluence, focusing on the physical parameters that allow or inhibit optical amplification in methylammonium lead iodide and bromide (MAPbBr3) perovskite thin films.
2. Exciton binding energy in perovskite films
A large absorption coefficient across the visible spectrum and the consequent efficient solar light harvesting is one of the strong points of perovskites. Initial works rationalized the strong absorption close to the energy-gap and the nature of optical excitations close to the band-gap in terms of excitons, as in organic semiconductors; further investigations have recently converged to state that photoexcitation results in the generation of free carriers in a wide range of pumping intensities, even at ones comparable to solar illumination, as typical of inorganic semiconductors. Such finding is consistent with small values of the exciton binding energy, for which thermal energy is sufficient to ionize excitons in free electrons and holes.
A reliable framework usually adopted in solid state physics to estimate the exciton binding energy is Elliot’s theory of Wannier excitons [42], which is valid for bulk semiconductors having exciton binding energies much smaller than the energy gap (Wannier excitons). Such theory accurately describes the optical transitions near the band-gap in inorganic semiconductors like GaAs and GaP [43,44] and models the shape of the optical absorption coefficient
The absorption coefficient depends on the weighted density of electron-hole pair states, with the weight provided by the probability for an electron and a hole to be at the same position, that is
Eq. (1) can be used to fit the measured absorption spectra of perovskite films, provided that it is convoluted with a bell-shaped function accounting for line broadening. In addition, the introduction of the joint valence-band energy-momentum dispersion leads to a better approximation between theory and experiment, as it overcomes the limits of the parabolic bands approximation. Upon these improvements, Eq. (1) can be modified as follows:
The density of states has been developed in series at the first order for small values of
In order to establish that the model can describe the absorption of MAPbI3 perovskite films, regardless of the particular morphology and growth conditions of each sample, we fitted Eq. (2) with a least square method to several absorption spectra reported in literature by different research groups. The binding energy is obtained as a fitting parameter, and the fitting range has been extended as much as possible at low and high energy in order to minimize uncertainties connected to the calculation procedure. Published data were extracted from the pdf files through the CurveSnap software, freely available online.
First, we analyzed the absorption measurements at low temperature, where the broadening is less pronounced and therefore the fitting procedure is more sensitive to the value of the exciton binding energy. Figures 1a,b show a comparison between the absorption spectra reported by D’Innocenzo et al. and our experimental data, recorded at 160 and 170 K, respectively [22,30]; the relative contributions of excitons and free carriers to the absorption spectrum are also shown. While the broadening is different in the two cases, the values of the exciton binding energy are comparable and coincide within the uncertainty. Figures 1c–f show the same analysis carried out at room temperature, applied to absorption spectra reported in references [5,22,45]. Even at room temperature, the fitted values for
The overall picture emerging from the analysis of optical absorption data seems therefore converging towards a value of 23 meV for the exciton binding energy. These results are in contrast with what observed with magnetometry, as some recent publications have reported values of the exciton binding energy that depend on temperature, as a consequence of screening effects. Such works report exciton binding energy to be nearly 15 meV at low temperature and a few meV at 300 K [33,34,38,48], while previous works with similar techniques reported values as large as 50 meV [31,49]. Since the interpretation of magnetometry data requires several analysis steps, at the moment it is not clear what the origin of this discrepancy is.
3. Emission properties from free carriers
Linear absorption spectroscopy is extremely useful to obtain information about the optical response and quickly highlights benefits and disadvantages of the material in terms of light harvesting, which represents the main ingredient for photovoltaics applications. Further insight into the electronic properties is provided by the study of the excited state emission properties, as the techniques probe how optical excitations populate the available states. Particularly, photoluminescence under pulsed, femtosecond excitation is useful in determining relaxation rates and excited state dynamics.
Emission in MAPbI3 and MAPbI3–
Radiative recombination processes can be investigated studying the intensity of the photoluminescence signal immediately after the laser excitation (
Figure 3 shows
Focusing only at time zero, all the recombination processes that occur later after laser excitation are neglected. On the other hand, they can be investigated studying the quantum yield (QY), defined by the ratio between the time-integral of the PL signal (TIPL) and the laser fluence
Figure 4a shows the QY as a function of the laser fluence, which can be explained in terms of interplay between radiative and non-radiative recombination processes. The rise of the QY below
Also the analysis of the initial PL decay rate at time zero, extracted right after laser pulse excitation, confirms our interpretation of the hierarchy of the recombination rates. Figure 4b shows that the initial PL decay rate increases with
4. Recombination rates
Fundamental parameters of semiconductors can be estimated theoretically by analyzing absorption and photoluminescence experimental results. As well as the absorption coefficient and the emission wavelength, bimolecular and Auger recombination rates represent two constants that characterize the material and can be used as figures of merit for some optoelectronic applications. Values of the bimolecular recombination constant from 10-11 to 10-9 cm3 s–1 have been reported in literature for MAPbI3 and MAPbI3–
Differently from the bimolecular constant, the Auger recombination rate could significantly change among samples, as it increases with the defect density of a crystal, which can depend on the synthesis method and the surface morphology [56,57]. Recent works report Auger recombination constants from 10-29 to 10-28cm6 s–1 for pure and mixed methylammonium lead iodide perovskites. Our estimates of 2x10-28 cm6 s–1 for MAPbI3–
5. Steady-state photoluminescence
The experimental results obtained under impulsive regime have provided numerical estimates of fundamental parameters in perovskites and a clearer view of the excited state dynamics. Nevertheless, such kinds of experiments do not investigate what occurs when samples are continuously excited and there is interplay between absorption and relaxation processes, as happens in steady-state operation. In perspective of the realization of perovskite-based working devices, it is important to have a deep understanding of these processes, as real devices work under continuous operation. A reliable instrument of investigation of the steady-state properties is represented by experiments carried out exciting samples under cw pumping or with pulses much longer in time than the PL lifetime of the excited states.
Figure 5a shows our experimental results carried out under cw excitation, spanning light intensities from 10-4 to 104 W/cm2. Below 100 W/cm2, the PL signal follows a 3/2 power law in the laser intensity for five decades excitation intensity. Such 3/2 power dependence implies that the radiative recombination is not the only process that governs the electron-hole dynamics under this regime; otherwise a linear dependence of the PL in the laser intensity would be expected, if radiative processes would be dominant. The particular 3/2 power law could be explained accounting the role of intra-gap states that act only on one kind of carrier, meaning traps only for electrons or only for holes (Figure 5b). Above 102 W/cm2, the deviation from the 3/2 power law to a linear dependence is attributed to the increase of radiative recombination with respect to carrier trapping [30]. Trap density is estimated to be of the order of 1016-1017cm–3, in agreement with what reported by other works [6]. Despite such large trap density, carrier trapping does not prejudice electronic properties, as PL lifetimes exceed several nanoseconds from intensities smaller than solar illumination to those typical to obtain light amplification. Hence, the resulting carrier mobility is sufficiently high to justify the remarkable transport properties and the efficient charge collection in perovskite-based solar cells reported in literature.
6. Organolead halide perovskites as active media in laser devices
The strong absorption at the band-edge, in addition to the ambipolar transport with high carrier mobility and gap-tunability, makes organometal halide perovskites very promising not only for the realization of solar cells but also as optical gain media in laser devices, as highlighted by many reports showing amplified spontaneous emission under intense photoexcitation [17–19,39,45,58]. Deschler et al. and Xing et al. reported optically pumped lasing and amplified spontaneous emission from perovskites arranged in cavity resonators and in cavity-free configuration, respectively [17,18]. Recently, Zhu et al. reported threshold densities of the order of 1016 cm–3 from single-crystal lead halide perovskite nanowires, which is a value about two orders of magnitude smaller than what was reported by the previous works [39]. In the light of these results, it is clear that organometal halide perovskites have a potential application as active media in laser devices. However, demonstrations reported up to date report ASE under impulsive excitation, a condition well away from real laser devices, which work under continuous operation. Probing emission properties with ns-long-pulse excitation simulates a regime more similar to what happens in a real device, and provides further information about the potentialities and the shortcomings of perovskites as optical gain media [19]. The first report about nanosecond excitation is the one published by Sutherland et al., which shows lasing from MAPbI3 perovskite thin layers deposited on spherical glass resonators, exciting samples with 2-ns-long pulses [45]. Nevertheless, this regime is still far from a real cw excitation and other experiments are required to have a deeper understanding of emission properties in perovskites [19]. Results obtained in different excitation regimes, from the impulsive to the quasi-cw, and improvements of our experiments with respect to other works are reported in the following sections and compared with the most recent researches.
7. Lasing and ASE under impulsive excitation
ASE in MAPbI3 and MAPbBr3 perovskite thin films manifests itself through a sharp peak that appears under short-pulse excitation in the low energy side of the PL spectrum of both films, when the injected carrier density reaches a threshold value. Figure 6 shows emission spectra at different excitation intensities from methylammonium iodide and bromide perovskite thin films at room temperature.
ASE threshold densities are calculated by averaging the laser fluence times the absorption coefficient at the excitation wavelength over the film thickness. Even if samples realized with the same procedure are excited with the same laser source, they show slightly different values of the ASE threshold, but for most samples the threshold is in the interval
Even though such investigations are extremely useful in perspective of the realization of a perovskite-based laser, they are not sufficient to state if these materials could be effectively employed as optical gain media. Actually, experiments carried out under impulsive regime do not take into account any interplay between laser excitation rates and relaxation processes that occur in real cw lasers, as the carrier injection is ultrafast and the emission occurs immediately after, when pumping has already stopped. Real lasers work under cw operation, a more complicated condition than what happens under impulsive regime, as excitation and emission occur at the same time and optical amplification is observed until the population inversion condition is kept. Under cw excitation, issues connected to warming could considerably affect the light emission properties, especially at high-injected carrier densities (above 1018 cm–3), where non-radiative Auger recombination begins to compete with optical emission [19,30].
8. Amplified spontaneous emission under ns excitation
Investigation of emission properties under excitation pulses having duration comparable or longer than the PL lifetime supplies the limits of the ultrafast pumping. Under 4-ns long-pulse excitation, ASE is observable at room temperature in both MAPbI3 and MAPbBr3 thin films at threshold densities of the order of 10 - 15 kW/cm2 (
Despite using excitation pulses of 4 ns could be considered a quasi-cw excitation regime, such pumping is not sufficient to guarantee if perovskites can act as active media in a real device. Using 300-ns-long pulses as laser source, no ASE is observed at room temperature in any perovskite film. A very small hint of amplification is observed at 220 K and a clear ASE peak appears at lower temperatures, as can be observed from Figure 7. Such findings suggest that some processes connected to temperature clearly affect the ASE threshold density under cw excitation. ASE inhibition is likely due to the higher amount of energy deposited by the long pulses, which results in more warming than what obtained under short-pulse excitation [19].
9. Optical thermometry
The plasma temperature can be extracted from PL spectra by fitting the high energy tail of the emission peak to a
Inset in Figure 8 illustrates the fitting procedure and shows the plasma temperature as a function of the laser fluence. As one may expect, the plasma temperature increases for increasing laser fluence. The main plasma heating sources under photoexcitation are due to the excess energy of the laser photons with respect to the energy gap and to non-radiative processes from both carrier trapping (at low intensities) and Auger recombination (at high intensities) [19]. Sample excitation with different laser wavelengths, from energies higher than the energy gap to about resonant with it, shows direct effects of excess energy on plasma temperature. Experimental results, reported in Figure 8, show that both contributions are significant, as larger excess energy causes larger warming, but some warming occurs even for quasi-resonant excitation, when Auger is the main source of heating. The role of Auger recombination is also evident at high densities by the rapid increase of the plasma temperature with the excitation intensity.
More significant warming effects can be observed using 300-ns-long excitation pulses and measuring the time-resolved PL evolution at different lattice temperatures
Both the temporal reshaping and the observation of ASE only at low lattice temperature under long-pulse excitation can be interpreted in terms of decrease of the radiative efficiency with increasing laser intensity. Such process is a consequence of the plasma warming generated during the intense pulse [19]. An interesting point is that every time ASE is observed, it stops when the plasma temperature overcomes about 370 K, independently from the initial temperature of the lattice (Figures 9e,f).
As a confirmation, one can measure the ASE threshold densities carried out under short-pulse excitation as a function of the lattice temperature, from 300 K to 160 K. Experimental results, reported in Figure 10, show that ASE threshold fluence follows a quadratic dependence in the lattice temperature in both MAPbI3 and MAPbBr3 perovskites [19]. Since absorption does not change significantly from room temperature to 160 K, such dependence cannot be ascribed to a variation of the injected electron-hole pairs density with temperature, but to the influence of temperature on the radiative recombination rate. Indeed, it is known that the radiative rate of an electron-hole plasma is inversely proportional to the plasma temperature [52].
10. Comparison with nitride semiconductors
Table 1 compares the values of parameters relevant to optical amplification obtained for perovskites to those known for nitride semiconductors at room temperature. Such comparison is very instructive in perspective of the realization of a perovskite-based cw laser. In fact, the advancement of nitride-based lasers has overtaken the problems concerning warming with success and may serve as a useful guide to improve perovskite device performances.
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11. Conclusions
This chapter has reviewed the most recent progresses concerning the investigation of the photophysical properties in organolead trihalide perovskites. The absorption spectrum in MAPbI3 perovskites shows the influence of excitonic states at the band-edge, even if there is evidence that the majority of photogenerated carriers results in free electrons and holes, in a wide excitation range at room temperature. Based on a large body of optical absorption data, the exciton binding energy is estimated to be 23±4 meV by applying the Elliot’s theory of Wannier excitons to published absorption spectra; the estimated value stays constant from cryogenic to room temperature. This value is in contrast with what evidenced by magnetometry measurements, which provide temperature-dependent values of the exciton binding energy. Additional investigations should be addressed to understand the origin of the discrepancy between what observed by optical spectroscopy and magnetometry.
Trap density in perovskites is significant, like in most solution-processed semiconductors, and its effects emerge particularly under continuous excitation. Although trapping has a negative impact in optoelectronic devices, its capture cross-section happens to be low, as attested by the typical PL lifetime in perovskites exceeding several nanoseconds. The resulting values of carrier mobility can exceed 10 cm2 V–1 s–1 and justify the efficient charge collection reported for perovskite-based PV devices.
Emission properties can also play an essential role in the development of new devices based on hybrid perovskites. Many reports provide evidence of amplified spontaneous emission from perovskite thin films under short-pulse excitation, with ASE threshold densities comparable to those of the best state-of-art organic crystals. Under cw pumping, warming suppresses light amplification, in the same way it happens in nitride semiconductors. Similarities between these latter and hybrid perovskites could suggest a way to improve light emission performances in perovskites, in perspective of the realization of a real perovskite-laser.
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