Hot Carrier Trapping and It's Influence to the Carrier Diffusion in CsPbBr₃ Perovskite Film Revealed by Transient Absorption Microscopy

The defects in perovskite film can cause charge carrier trapping which shortens carrier lifetime and diffusion length. So defects passivation has become promising for the perovskite studies. However, how defects disturb the carrier transport and how the passivating affects the carrier transport in CsPbBr₃ are still unclear. Here the carrier dynamics and diffusion processes of CsPbBr₃ and LiBr passivated CsPbBr₃ films are investigated by using transient absorption spectroscopy and transient absorption microscopy. It's found that there is a fast hot carrier trapping process with the above bandgap excitation, and the hot carrier trapping would decrease the population of cold carriers which are diffusible, then lower the carrier diffusion constant. It's proved that LiBr can passivate the defect and lower the trapping probability of hot carriers, thus improve the carrier diffusion rate. The finding demonstrates the influence of hot carrier trapping to the carrier diffusion in CsPbBr₃ film.