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ArticleNature communications2020

Mahan excitons in room-temperature methylammonium lead bromide perovskites.

Tania Palmieri, Edoardo Baldini, Alexander Steinhoff, Ana Akrap, Márton Kollár, Endre Horváth, László Forró, Frank Jahnke, Majed Chergui

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Tania Palmieri *Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6640-2967
Edoardo Baldini *Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland. ebaldini@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8131-9974
Alexander SteinhoffSemiconductor Theory Group, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Alle 1, P.O. Box 330440, Bremen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8134-4344
Ana AkrapGroup of Light Fermion Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, Université de Fribourg, 3 Chemin du Musée, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Márton KollárLaboratory of Physics of Condensed Matter, Institute of Physics (IPHYS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9335-2715
Endre HorváthLaboratory of Physics of Condensed Matter, Institute of Physics (IPHYS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
László ForróLaboratory of Physics of Condensed Matter, Institute of Physics (IPHYS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Frank JahnkeSemiconductor Theory Group, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Alle 1, P.O. Box 330440, Bremen, Germany.
Majed CherguiLaboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland. majed.chergui@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4856-226X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a seminal paper, Mahan predicted that excitonic bound states can still exist in a semiconductor at electron-hole densities above the insulator-to-metal Mott transition. However, no clear evidence for this exotic quasiparticle, dubbed Mahan exciton, exists to date at room temperature. In this work, we combine ultrafast broadband optical spectroscopy and advanced many-body calculations to reveal that organic-inorganic lead-bromide perovskites host Mahan excitons at room temperature. Persistence of the Wannier exciton peak and the enhancement of the above-bandgap absorption are observed at all achievable photoexcitation densities, well above the Mott density. This is supported by the solution of the semiconductor Bloch equations, which confirms that no sharp transition between the insulating and conductive phase occurs. Our results demonstrate the robustness of the bound states in a regime where exciton dissociation is otherwise expected, and offer promising perspectives in fundamental physics and in room-temperature applications involving high densities of charge carriers.

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