Probing Photoluminescence in Perovskite-Based Polymer Nanocomposite Films

Polymer nanocomposites incorporating perovskite (PV) nanoparticles have recently emerged as highly promising materials for optoelectronic and photonic devices. In this work, steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) were performed in PV-based polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) nanocomposite films. The steady-state PL measurements revealed linearly increasing emission as excitation intensities ramped up, followed by a saturation. The optical limiting was scalable through the PV concentrations and is likely due to creation of maximum number of electron–hole (e–h) pairs in the system. The presence of a PDMS altered the multi-exponential PL decay significantly, both in terms of underlying mechanism and the associated timescales. The introduction of PDMS changed a 3-component exponential decay of PV into a 2-component mechanism and reduced the total timescale of decay from 16 ns to ~6 ns.