Chiral perovskite nanoplatelets exhibiting circularly polarized luminescence through ligand optimization

10 June 2022, Version 2
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Abstract

Chiral halide perovskite nanocrystals have many applications in next-generation optoelectronic devices due to their interaction with circularly polarized light. Through the careful selection of chiral organic surface ligands, control over the circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) of these materials can be achieved. However, while recent developments of CD-active perovskites have seen significant advances, effective CPL remains a challenge. Here, we synthesize colloidal perovskite nanoplatelets exhibiting room temperature CPL with dissymmetry factors up to glum=4.3×10^(-3) and gabs=8.4×10^(-3). Methylammonium lead bromide nanoplatelets are synthesized with a mixture of chiral dimethyl benzyl ammonium ligands and achiral octylammonium ligands, the precise ratio of which is shown to be critical to achieving high g-factors. We investigate the competitive binding of these surface ligands using 1H NMR, and use an equilibrium model to demonstrate the ligand affinity. The magnitude of CPL and CD is quantitatively shown to exhibit a linear correlation, such that glum=0.4×gabs. Lastly, by screening several amines with close structures, we show that subtle differences in ligand structure have significant impact on the resulting CD signal of the nanoplatelets. Our findings provide new insights for the effective design of perovskites exhibiting CPL and can facilitate the development of high-performance devices based on circularly polarized luminescence.

Keywords

ligand-induced chirality
circularly polarized luminescence
colloidal nanocrystals
chiral perovskites
surface chemistry

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Supporting Information including additional data containing TEM images, CD spectra of achiral NPLs and ligand salts, PXRD pattern of stacked NPLs, and optical characterization for NPLs synthesized with different chiral ligand fractions.
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