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Polar Solvent‐Assisted Chiral Ligand and Cation Exchange for Bright, Strongly Circularly Polarized Emission in CsPbBr 3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets

Tyler Wang, Zhengjie Li, Mingwei Ge, Jinquan Shi, Yehonadav Bekenstein, Gaël Ung, Mengxia Liu

Advanced Optical Materials· Volume 13· Issue 35

Abstract

Abstract Chiral semiconducting nanomaterials have recently garnered much interest, as their highly favorable chiroptical properties make them exceptional candidates for applications spanning optical communication, 3D displays, and secure encryption. However, their pronounced sensitivity to size, shape, and surface chemistry renders current processing methods highly inconsistent and uncontrollable, limiting further exploration toward these goals. Here, a method is devised to carefully induce and tune the chirality in perovskite nanoplatelets (NPLs) through a polar solvent‐assisted chiral ligand exchange while minimizing structural damage to the NPL lattices. Through solvent‐engineering, the anisotropic NPLs can also be coerced to self‐assemble into highly oriented superlattices, allowing for further control over the chiral NPLs' transition dipole moments. Together, these methods enable circularly polarized luminescence with dissymmetry factors as high as g CPL = 3.4 × 10 −2 , representing an order of magnitude improvement over their solution‐state counterparts. Further, through simultaneous cation exchange with divalent transition metal ions, the quantum yield is successfully boosted by over an order of magnitude and enhance the solution g CPL , demonstrating the versatility of this strategy. These results illustrate this highly general approach for finely tuning the chiroptical properties of perovskite nanomaterials through a single facile and efficient exchange step.
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OpenAlex topics: Perovskite Materials and Applications · Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials · Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography

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Affiliations

Department of Physics Yale University New Haven CT 06511 USA

Energy Sciences Institute Yale University West Haven CT 06516 USA

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Yale University New Haven CT 06511 USA

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000 Israel

The Solid‐State Institute Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000 Israel

Department of Chemistry University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA

Funding

Division of Materials Research · Division of Chemistry · Yale University · University of Connecticut · United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation

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