Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Ultrafast terahertz snapshots of excitonic Rydberg states and electronic coherence in an organometal halide perovskite

  • Liang Luo,
  • Long Men,
  • Zhaoyu Liu,
  • Yaroslav Mudryk,
  • Xin Zhao,
  • Yongxin Yao,
  • Joong M. Park,
  • Ruth Shinar,
  • Joseph Shinar,
  • Kai-Ming Ho,
  • Ilias E. Perakis,
  • Javier Vela,
  • Jigang Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15565
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The generation of bound electron and hole pairs—excitons—is a key process in photovoltaic technologies, yet it is challenging to follow their initial dynamics. Here, Luoet al. probe the Rydberg eigenstates that characterize the excitonic transport and coherent conversion in a perovskite material.