Publication Date
3-15-2020
Department
Ames Laboratory; Physics and Astronomy
Campus Units
Physics and Astronomy, Ames Laboratory
OSTI ID+
1607928
Report Number
IS-J 10184
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.101.115125
Journal Title
Physical Review B
Volume Number
101
Issue Number
11
First Page
115125
Abstract
The coherence of collective modes, such as phonons and polarons, and their modulation of electronic states is long sought in complex systems, which is a crosscutting issue in photovoltaics and quantum electronics. In photovoltaic cells and lasers based on metal halide perovskites, the presence of polarons, i.e., photocarriers dressed by the macroscopic motion of charged lattice, assisted by terahertz (THz) longitudinal-optical (LO) phonons, has been intensely studied yet is still debated. This may be key for explaining the remarkable properties of the perovskite materials, e.g., defect tolerance, long charge lifetimes, and diffusion lengths. Here we use the intense single-cycle THz pulse with peak electric field up to ETHz=1000 kV/cm to drive coherent polaronic band-edge oscillations at room temperature in CH3NH3PbI3(MAPbI3). We reveal the oscillatory behavior is dominated by a specific quantized lattice vibration mode at ωLO∼4THz, which is both dipole and momentum forbidden. THz-driven coherent polaron dynamics exhibits distinguishing features: room temperature coherent oscillations at ωLO longer than 1 ps in both single crystals and thin films, mode-selective modulation of different band-edge states assisted by electron-phonon interaction, and dynamic mode splitting at low temperature due to entropy and anharmonicity of organic cations. Our results demonstrate intense THz-driven coherent band-edge modulation is a powerful probe of electron-lattice coupling phenomena and polaronic quantum control in perovskites.
DOE Contract Number(s)
AC02-07CH11358; DMR 1807818; 1122374; EECS 1611454
Language
en
Publisher
Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
