Abstract

Sustained stimulated emission under continuous-wave (CW) excitation is a prerequisite for new semiconductor materials being developed for laser gain media. Although hybrid organic-inorganic lead-halide perovskites have attracted much attention as optical gain media, the demonstration of room-temperature CW lasing has still not been realized. Here, we present a critical step towards this goal by demonstrating CW amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in a phase-stable perovskite at temperatures up to 120 K. The phase-stable perovskite maintains its room-temperature phase while undergoing cryogenic cooling and can potentially support CW lasing also at higher temperatures. We find the threshold level for CW ASE to be 387 W cm-2 at 80 K. These results indicate that easily-fabricated single-phase perovskite thin films can sustain CW stimulated emission, potential at higher temperatures as well, by further optimization of the material quality in order to extend the carrier lifetimes.

Highlights

  • Sustained stimulated emission under continuous-wave (CW) excitation is a prerequisite for new semiconductor materials being developed for laser gain media

  • The partial replacement of the MA cation results in an identical crystal phase for arbitrary iodine bromine ratios at room temperature

  • No phase transitions are known at lower temperatures[33,34], or have been observed in the current work

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Introduction

Sustained stimulated emission under continuous-wave (CW) excitation is a prerequisite for new semiconductor materials being developed for laser gain media. Results Temperature-dependent amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) under pulsed excitation. The film was mounted inside a cryostat (Janis STVP100, see Supplementary Figure 2 for a schematic of the experimental setup) allowing the intensity-dependence of the emission spectrum to be measured as a function of temperature.

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