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journal contribution
posted on 2017-02-14, 00:00authored byQuinten A. Akkerman, Sungwook Park, Eros Radicchi, Francesca Nunzi, Edoardo Mosconi, Filippo De Angelis, Rosaria Brescia, Prachi Rastogi, Mirko Prato, Liberato Manna
We
have developed
a colloidal synthesis of nearly monodisperse nanocrystals of pure
Cs4PbX6 (X = Cl, Br, I) and their mixed halide
compositions with sizes ranging from 9 to 37 nm. The optical absorption
spectra of these nanocrystals display a sharp, high energy peak due
to transitions between states localized in individual PbX64– octahedra. These spectral features are insensitive
to the size of the particles and in agreement with the features of
the corresponding bulk materials. Samples with mixed halide composition
exhibit absorption bands that are intermediate in spectral position
between those of the pure halide compounds. Furthermore, the absorption
bands of intermediate compositions broaden due to the different possible
combinations of halide coordination around the Pb2+ ions.
Both observations are supportive of the fact that the [PbX6]4– octahedra are electronically decoupled in these
systems. Because of the large band gap of Cs4PbX6 (>3.2 eV), no excitonic emission in the visible range was observed.
The Cs4PbBr6 nanocrystals can be converted into
green fluorescent CsPbBr3 nanocrystals by their reaction
with an excess of PbBr2 with preservation of size and size
distributions. The insertion of PbX2 into Cs4PbX6 provides a means of accessing CsPbX3 nanocrystals
in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and compositions, an important
aspect for the development of precisely tuned perovskite nanocrystal
inks.