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Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals demonstrate efficient up-conversion, although the precise mechanism remains a subject of active research. This study utilizes steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopy methods to unravel the mechanism…
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In the development of highly efficient photovoltaic cells, solid perovskite systems have demonstrated unprecedented promise, with the figure of merit exceeding nineteen percent of efficiency. In this paper, we investigate the optical and…
The lead halide perovskites demonstrate huge potential for optoelectronic applications, high energy radiation detectors, light emitting devices and solar energy harvesting. Those materials exhibit strong spin-orbit coupling enabling…
Apparent recombination orders exceeding the value of two expected for bimolecular recombination have been reported for organic solar cells in various publications. Two prominent explanations are bimolecular losses with a carrier…
Monosubstituted nitrotoluenes serve as important model compounds for nitroaromatic energetic molecules such as trinitrotoluene. This work investigates the ultrafast nuclear dynamics of 3- and 4-nitrotoluene radical cations using femtosecond…
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The hydronium cation plays a crucial role in interstellar oxygen and water chemistry. While its spectroscopy was extensively investigated earlier, the collisional excitation of H$_3$O$^+$ is not well studied yet. In this work we present…
We investigate the hypothesis of dynamic tetragonal domains occuring in cubic CH$_3$NH$_3$PbI$_3$ using high-resolution neutron spectroscopy to study a fully deuterated single crystal. The $\textit{R}$-point scattering above the 327.5 K…
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Due to their exceptional photovoltaic properties, metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are extensively studied for their potential applications in solar cells. In recent years, the power conversion efficiencies of MHPs-based solar cells rapidly…
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) exhibit remarkable photovoltaic performance, where interface engineering with hole transport layers (HTLs) is crucial for optimizing charge transfer and device…
Since the discovery of its photovoltaic properties organometallic salt CH$_3$NH$_3$PbI$_3$ became the subject of vivid interest. The material exhibits high light conversion efficiency, it lases in red color, and it can serve as the basis…
Structural stability, electronic structure and optical properties of CH3NH3BaI3 hybrid perovskite is examined both from theory as well as experiment. Solution-processed thin films of CH3NH3BaI3 exhibited a high band gap of approximately…
Knowledge of the charge-carrier recombination lifetime, tau, is crucial for the various applications of photovoltaic perovskites. We studied the novel inorganic perovskite, CsPbBr3 and we observe recombination dynamics beyond 1 ms below 200…
Halide perovskite (HP) semiconductors exhibit unique strong coupling between the electronic and structural dynamics. The high-temperature cubic phase of HPs is known to be entropically stabilized, with imaginary frequencies in the…
The mechanical properties of hybrid perovskite materials are important for device flexibility, resistance to fracture, epitaxial growth, surface energetics of quantum dots, and induction or relief of stress in thin films due to thermal…
Halide perovskites are highly promising light-harvesting materials with strong ionic character, enabling in principle the combination of a solar cell and a Li-ion battery in one integrated photo-battery device. Here, we investigate Li ions…
Hybrid lead-halide perovskites have emerged as an excellent class of photovoltaic materials. Recent reports suggest that the organic molecular cation is responsible for local polar fluctuations that inhibit carrier recombination. We combine…