Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

How lasing happens in CsPbBr3 perovskite nanowires

  • Andrew P. Schlaus,
  • Michael S. Spencer,
  • Kiyoshi Miyata,
  • Fang Liu,
  • Xiaoxia Wang,
  • Ipshita Datta,
  • Michal Lipson,
  • Anlian Pan,
  • X.-Y. Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07972-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Lead-halide perovskite are an interesting material platform for light-emitting devices but the underlying lasing mechanism is still disputed. Here, Schlaus et al. use time-resolved spectroscopy of CsPbBr3 nanowires to show that lasing results from stimulated emission of an electron-hole plasma.