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Detection of Single Charge Trapping Defects in Semiconductor Particles by Evaluating Photon Antibunching in Delayed Photoluminescence.

Ivan Yu EremchevAleksandr O TarasevichMaria A KniazevaJun LiAndrei V NaumovIvan G Scheblykin
Published in: Nano letters (2023)
Time-resolved analysis of photon cross-correlation function g (2) (τ) is applied to photoluminescence (PL) of individual submicrometer size MAPbI 3 perovskite crystals. Surprisingly, an antibunching effect in the long-living tail of PL is observed, while the prompt PL obeys the photon statistics typical for a classical emitter. We propose that antibunched photons from the PL decay tail originate from radiative recombination of detrapped charge carriers which were initially captured by a very limited number (down to one) of shallow defect states. The concentration of these trapping sites is estimated to be in the range 10 13 -10 16 cm -3 . In principle, photon correlations can be also caused by highly nonlinear Auger recombination processes; however, in our case it requires unrealistically large Auger recombination coefficients. The potential of the time-resolved g (2) (0) for unambiguous identification of charge rerecombination processes in semiconductors considering the actual number of charge carries and defects states per particle is demonstrated.
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