Lead-Free Chiral Perovskite for High Degree of Circularly Polarized Light Emission and Spin Injection
Junchao Hu, Xinglin Wen, Dong Yang, Yingying Chen, Zeyi Liu, Dehui Li
Abstract
We report a zero-dimensional (0D) lead-free chiral perovskite (S-/R-MBA) 4 Bi 2 I 10 with a high degree of circularly polarized light (CPL) emission. Our 0D lead-free chiral perovskite exhibits an average degree of circular polarization (DOCP) of 19.8% at 78 K under linearly polarized laser excitation, and the maximum DOCP can reach 25.8%, which is 40 times higher than the highest DOCP of 0.5% in all reported lead-free chiral perovskites to the best of our knowledge. The high DOCP of (S-/R-MBA) 4 Bi 2 I 10 is attributed to the free exciton emission with a Huang–Rhys factor of 2.8. In contrast, all the lead-free chiral perovskites in prior reports are dominant by self-trapped exciton in which the spin relaxation reduces DOCP dramatically. Moreover, we realize the manipulation of the valley degree of freedom of monolayer WSe 2 by using the spin injection of the 0D chiral lead-free perovskites. Our results provide a new perspective to develop lead-free chiral perovskite devices for CPL light source, spintronics, and valleytronics.