Light-Induced Effects in Amorphous Chalcogenide Glasses: Femtoseconds to Seconds

Amorphous chalcogenide glasses are intrinsically metastable, highly photosensitive, and therefore exhibit numerous light-induced effects upon bandgap and sub-bandgap illumination. Depending on the pulse duration of the excitation laser, ChGs exhibit a series of light-induced effects spanning over femtosecond to seconds time domain. For continuous wave (CW) illumination, the effects are dominantly metastable in terms of photodarkening (PD) and photobleaching (PB) that take place via homopolar to heteropolar bond conversion. On the other hand, under nanosecond and ultrafast pulsed illumination, ChGs exhibit transient absorption (TA) that is instigated from the transient bonding rearrangements through self-trapped exciton recombination. In the first part of the review, we pay special attention to continuous wave light-induced PD and PB, while in the second part we will focus on the TA and controlling such effects via internal and external parameters, e.g., chemical composition, temperature, sample history, etc.

Lightinduced Effects in Amorphous Chalcogenide Glasses: Femtoseconds to Seconds

Amorphous chalcogenide (ChGs) glasses are intrinsically metastable, highly photosensitive, and therefore exhibit numerous lightinduced effects upon bandgap and sub-bandgap illumination. Depending on the pulse duration of the excitation laser, ChGs exhibit a series of lightinduced effects spanning over femtosecond to seconds time domain. For continuous wave illumination, the effects are dominantly metastable in terms of photodarkening (PD) and photobleaching (PB) that takes place via homopolar to heteropolar bond conversion. On the other hand, under nanosecond and ultrafast pulsed illumination, ChGs exhibit transient absorption (TA) that is instigated from the transient bonding rearrangements through self-trapped exciton recombination. In the first part of the review, we pay special attention to continuous wave lightinduced PD and PB, while in the second part we will focus on the TA and controlling such effects via internal and external parameters e.g., chemical composition, temperature, sample history etc.

Photoluminescence and Photoconductivity of Lead Halide Perovskite Films Modified with Mixed Cellulose Esters-=SUP=-1-=/SUP=-

We have investigated the photoluminescence (PL) and photoconductivity of lead halide perovskite (CH3NH3PbBr3) films modified with different mixed cellulose esters (CEs). It was shown that the absorbance and PL spectra of CH3NH3PbBr3 : CE films contain contributions of both the CH3NH3PbBr3 and CE with the dominant contribution to the PL from perovskite component. The dependences of the integral PL intensities of the CH3NH3PbBr3 : CE films on the optical excitation power turned out to be sublinear. This indicates that exciton recombination, as well as recombination via impurity levels, occur in CH3NH3PbBr3 : CE films at high excitation power levels. The conductivity of CH3NH3PbBr3 : CE films at 300 K increases up to ~90 times when illuminated by a solar simulator, and this effect is environmentally stable due to the formation of hydrogen bonds between CE and the lead halide perovskite CH3NH3PbBr3. It is expected that appropriate selection of CE and optimization of CE inclusion will improve the optoelectronic properties and stability of composite films based on lead halide perovskite-CE composites.

High efficiency and long lifetime fluorescent white organic light-emitting diodes by phosphor sensitization to strategically manage singlet and triplet excitons

The positions of the phosphor-sensitized yellow EML from the exciton recombination zone were controlled to strategically utilize singlet and triplet excitons for blue and yellow emissions to realize high-performance fluorescent WOLEDs.