Bulk Chiral Halide Perovskite Single Crystals for Active Circular Dichroism and Circularly Polarized Luminescence

Motivated by the chirality research of the hybrid halide perovskite, we reported the controllable growth of single crystals of (R)-, (S)-, and (R,S)-C6H5CH­(CH3)­NH3 (MBA)-based lead (Pb) halide perovskites. The crystal structures were redetermined and further refined to clarify the previously ambiguous crystal structure problems. We further investigated the chiral optical properties of these single crystals including nonlinear optical (NLO) properties and photoluminescence (PL) properties. The as-fabricated (R)- and (S)-MBAPbBr3 single crystals not only show notable circular dichroism (CD) signals in the absorption spectra but also exhibit obvious circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) characteristics. The available chiral hybrid perovskite single crystals open up the possibility to study these intrinsic chirality properties for optoelectronic applications.