Small Number of Defects per Nanostructure Leads to “Digital” Quenching of Photoluminescence : The Case of Metal Halide Perovskites
Long charge carrier diffusion length and large grain size are commonly believed to be inherent properties of highly luminescent polycrystalline thin-film semiconductors. However, exactly these two properties make luminescence very susceptible to quenching by just one strongly quenching defect state if present in each grain. Moreover, when the number of quenchers per grain is small (say 1–10), it v
