Exciton diffusion exceeding 1 µm: run, exciton, run!

Light Sci Appl

X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.

Published: February 2021

Exciton diffusion lengths reaching the micrometer length scale have long been desired in solution-processed semiconductors but have remained unattainable using conventional materials to date. Now halide perovskite nanocrystal films show unprecedented exciton migration with diffusion lengths approaching 1 µm owing to the efficient combination of radiative and nonradiative energy transfer.

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