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PEROVSKITE NANOCRYSTALS

Shedding light on dark excitons

A magnetic-field-dependent spectroscopy study on single perovskite nanocrystals reveals the spectral signatures of an exciton dark state below the bright triplet states.

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Fig. 1: Exciton fine structure of perovskite nanocrystals.

Adapted from ref. 3, SNL (c,d)

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Meijerink, A., Rabouw, F.T. Shedding light on dark excitons. Nat. Mater. 18, 660–661 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0376-6

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