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Abstract title: Purcell Effect in CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 Perovskite Nanocrystyals Based Hyperbolic Metamaterials
Submitting author: Svetlana Siprova
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria
Affiliation Address: via P. Bucci, 31C, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy
Country: Italy
Other authors and affiliations: Vincenzo Caligiuri (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, via P. Bucci, 31C, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy) (CNR Nanotec UOS Rende, via P. Bucci, 31D, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy), Nicolas Godbert (MAT-INLAB (Laboratorio di Materiali Molecolari Inorganici) and LASCAMM - CR INSTM, Unità INSTM of Calabria Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università della Calabria, Ponte Pietro Bucci Cubo 14C, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), 87036, Italy) (LPM (Laboratorio Preparazione Materiali), Materia-Star, Polo Tecnologico, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy), Roberto Termine (CNR Nanotec UOS Rende, via P. Bucci, 31D, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy), Gianluca Balestra (CNR Nanotec Institute of Nanotechnology, Via Monteroni, Lecce 73100, Italy) (Department of Mathematics and Physics Ennio De Giorgi, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy), Massimo Cuscunà (CNR Nanotec Institute of Nanotechnology, Via Monteroni, Lecce 73100, Italy), Maria Laura Amoruso (CNR–IMM, Strada VIII n.5 Zona Industriale, 95121 Catania, Italy), Mario Scuderi (CNR–IMM, Strada VIII n.5 Zona Industriale, 95121 Catania, Italy), Attilio Golemme (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, via P. Bucci, 31C, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy) (LPM (Laboratorio Preparazione Materiali), Materia-Star, Polo Tecnologico, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy), Iolinda Aiello (CNR Nanotec UOS Rende, via P. Bucci, 31D, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy) (MAT-INLAB (Laboratorio di Materiali Molecolari Inorganici) and LASCAMM - CR INSTM, Unità INSTM of Calabria Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università della Calabria, Ponte Pietro Bucci Cubo 14C, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), 87036, Italy) (LPM (Laboratorio Preparazione Materiali), Materia-Star, Polo Tecnologico, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy), Antonio De Luca (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, via P. Bucci, 31C, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy) (CNR Nanotec UOS Rende, via P. Bucci, 31D, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy)
Abstract
Hyperbolic Metamaterials (HMMs) are metal/dielectric multilayered structures, manifesting a hyperbolic dispersion relation that gives access to large wavevector modes called “high-K modes”. In the proximity of an HMM, high-K modes mostly determine the spontaneous emission rate over all the other relaxation channels, so that exceptional Purcell factors can be reached. So far, such a peculiarity of HMMs has mostly been exploited by placing a quantum emitter on top of a multilayer device. Placing the emitter inside the HMM would be far more effective but, due to intrinsic fabrication limitations, such an option is often neglected. In this work, we overcome this limitation by fabricating an 8-bilayers HMM in which Ag is the metal and a CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 perovskites mixed-phase of nanocrystals represents the “active” dielectric. We then characterized the static and dynamic behavior of both the bare perovskites NCs mixture and the 8-bilayers HMM through streak-camera-based measurements. Such a rich, one-shot, and wavelength-time resolved experimental investigation, allowed us to carry out a thorough characterization of the photo-dynamics processes occurring all over the spectral emission range of the perovskite. This analysis revealed an enhancement of the spontaneous decay rate throughout the whole emission spectrum and in all the three components of the tri-exponential function used to fit the experimental PL decay curves. We report average Purcell factors equal to 4.3 for t1, 3.14 for t2 and 2.14 for t3, while a Purcell factor equal to 28 was measured at the emission wavelength of the active material. We then proposed a possible explanation of the detected blue-shift of the PL peak of the perovskite compound embedded in the HMM, in terms of the spectral reshaping of the photonic density of states occurring as an effect of the high-K modes of the HMM. The results presented in this work constitute a promising step forward in HMM-based single photon sources and in all applications for which a large Purcell factor is required.