APL Materials (Feb 2020)

Enhanced nanoscopy of individual CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals using dielectric sub-micrometric antennas

  • Isaac Suárez,
  • Thomas Wood,
  • Juan P. Martinez Pastor,
  • Dario Balestri,
  • Simona Checcucci,
  • Thomas David,
  • Luc Favre,
  • Jean-Benoît Claude,
  • David Grosso,
  • Andrés F. Gualdrón-Reyes,
  • Iván Mora-Seró,
  • Marco Abbarchi,
  • Massimo Gurioli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5142225
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 2
pp. 021109 – 021109-10

Abstract

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We demonstrate an efficient, simple, and low-cost approach for enhanced nanoscopy in individual green emitting perovskite (CsPbBr3) nanocrystals via TiO2 dielectric nanoantenna. The observed three- to five-fold emission enhancement is attributed to near-field effects and emission steering promoted by the coupling between the perovskite nanocrystals and the dielectric sub-micrometric antennas. The dark-field scattering configuration is then exploited for surface-enhanced absorption measurements, showing a large increase in detection sensitivity, leading to the detection of individual nanocrystals. Due to the broadband spectral response of the Mie sub-micrometric antennas, the method can be easily extended to electronic transitions in other spectral regions, paving the way for absorption nanoscopy of many different quantum emitters from organic molecules to quantum dots.