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Slow cooling of hot polarons in halide perovskite solar cells

14 Aug 2017arXiv:1708.04158links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Jarvist Moore Frost, Lucy D. Whalley, Aron Walsh

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Halide perovskites show unusual thermalisation kinetics for above bandgap photo-excitation. We explain this as a consequence of excess energy being deposited into discrete large polaron states. The cross-over between low-fluence and high-fluence `phonon bottleneck' cooling is due to a Mott transition where the polarons overlap (n ≥10¹⁸/cm³) and the phonon sub-populations are shared. We calculate the initial rate of cooling (thermalisation) from the scattering time in the Fr\"ohlich polaron model to be 78 meVps⁻¹ for CH₃NH₃PbI₃. This rapid initial thermalisation involves heat transfer into optical phonon modes coupled by a polar dielectric interaction. Further cooling to equilibrium over hundreds of picoseconds is limited by the ultra-low thermal conductivity of the perovskite lattice.

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