Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Microscopic insight into non-radiative decay in perovskite semiconductors from temperature-dependent luminescence blinking

  • Marina Gerhard,
  • Boris Louis,
  • Rafael Camacho,
  • Aboma Merdasa,
  • Jun Li,
  • Alexander Kiligaridis,
  • Alexander Dobrovolsky,
  • Johan Hofkens,
  • Ivan G. Scheblykin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09640-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The mechanism of the non-radiative recombination in halide perovskite nanocrystals has not been fully understood. Here Gerhard et al. resolve the contributions of individual recombination centers by photoluminescence blinking measurements and identify ion migration as the underlying mechanism.