Excited-State Dynamics of MAPbBr3: Coexistence of Excitons and Free Charge Carriers at Ultrafast Times.

Droseros, Nikolaos; Ferdowsi, Parnian; Martinez, Efrain Ochoa; Saliba, Michael; Banerji, Natalie; Tsokkou, Demetra (2024). Excited-State Dynamics of MAPbBr3: Coexistence of Excitons and Free Charge Carriers at Ultrafast Times. Journal of physical chemistry. C, 128(21), pp. 8637-8648. American Chemical Society 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c08509

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Methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite (MAPbBr3) is an important material, for example, for light-emitting applications and tandem solar cells. The relevant photophysical properties are governed by a plethora of phenomena resulting from the complex and relatively poorly understood interplay of excitons and free charge carriers in the excited state. In this study, we combine transient spectroscopies in the visible and terahertz range to investigate the presence and evolution of excitons and free charge carriers at ultrafast times upon excitation at various photon energies and densities. For above- and resonant band-gap excitation, we find that free charges and excitons coexist and that both are mainly promptly generated within our 50-100 fs experimental time resolution. However, the exciton-to-free charge ratio increases upon decreasing the phonon energy toward resonant band gap excitation. The free charge signatures dominate the transient absorption response for above-band-gap excitation and low excitation densities, masking the excitonic features. With resonant band gap excitation and low excitation densities, we find that although the exciton density increases, free charges remain. We show evidence that the excitons localize into shallow trap and/or Urbach tail states to form localized excitons (within tens of picoseconds) that subsequently get detrapped. Using high excitation densities, we demonstrate that many-body interactions become pronounced and effects such as the Moss-Burstein shift, band gap renormalization, excitonic repulsion, and the formation of Mahan excitons are evident. The coexistence of excitons and free charges that we demonstrate here for photoexcited MAPbBr3 at ultrafast time scales confirms the high potential of the material for both light-emitting diode and tandem solar cell applications.

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