학술논문

Low-frequency optical phonon modes and carrier mobility in the halide perovskite CH3NH3PbBr3 using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.
Document Type
Article
Source
Applied Physics Letters. 11/13/2017, Vol. 111 Issue 20, p1-5. 5p. 1 Chart, 3 Graphs.
Subject
*PHONONS
*PEROVSKITE
*SUBMILLIMETER wave imaging
*ELECTRONS
*POLAR semiconductors
*TEMPERATURE
Language
ISSN
0003-6951
Abstract
As a light absorber in photovoltaic applications, hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites should have long and balanced diffusion lengths for both the separated electrons and holes before recombination, which necessitates high carrier mobility. In polar semiconductors, the room-temperature carrier mobility is often limited by the scattering between carriers and the lowest-frequency optical phonon modes. Using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, we examine the temperature evolution of these phonon modes in CH3NH3PbBr3 and obtained high carrier mobility values using Feynman’s polaron theory. This method allows us to estimate the upper limit of carrier mobilities without the need to create photogenerated free carriers, and can be applied to other heteropolar semiconductor systems with large polarons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]