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Aaron Forde1,2, Amanda C Evans3, Wanyi Nie4
1Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States.
Abstract:
The chirality transfer phenomenon is attractive for enhancing the optical functionality of nanomaterials by inducing sensitivity to the circular polarization states of photons. An underexplored aspect is how material properties of the achiral semiconductor impact the induced chiroptical signatures. Here we apply atomistic time-dependent density functional theory simulations to investigate the material properties that influence the chiroptical signatures of a lead halide perovskite nanocrystal with a chiral molecule bound to the surface. First, we find that both lattice disorder created by surface strain and halide substitution can increase the chiroptical response of the perovskite quantum dots by an order of magnitude. Both phenomena are attributed to a broadening of the density of the electronically excited states. Second, the intensity of the anisotropy spectra decreases with increasing dot size with a power law decay. Overall, these insights can be used to help guide experimental realization of highly resolvable polarized optical features in semiconducting nanomaterials.
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