Measuring Exciton Fine-Structure in Perovskite Nanocrystal Ensembles

Abstract: Lead-halide perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) exhibit unique optoelectronic properties, many of which originate from a purported bright-triplet exciton fine-structure. A major impediment to measuring this fine-structure is inhomogeneous spectral broadening, which has limited most experimental studies to single-nanocrystal spectroscopies. It is shown here that the linearly-polarized single-particle selection rules in PNCs are preserved in nonlinear spectroscopies of randomly-oriented ensembles. Simulations incorporating rotational-averaging demonstrate that techniques such as transient absorption and two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy are capable of resolving exciton fine-structure in PNCs, even in the presence of inhomogeneous broadening and orientation disorder.