High-Quality All-Inorganic Perovskite CsPbBr₃ Microsheet Crystals as Low-Loss Subwavelength Exciton–Polariton Waveguides

Abstract

Nanostructured all-inorganic metal halide perovskites have attracted considerable attention due to their outstanding photonic and optoelectronic properties. Particularly, they can exhibit room-temperature exciton-polaritons (EPs) capable of confining electromagnetic fields down to the subwavelength scale, enabling efficient light harvesting and guiding. However, a real-space nanoimaging study of the EPs in perovskite crystals is still absent. Additionally, few studies focused on the ambient-pressure and reliable fabrication of large-area CsPbBr₃ microsheets. Here, CsPbBr₃ orthorhombic microsheet single crystals were successfully synthesized under ambient pressure. Their EPs were examined using a real-space nanoimaging technique, which reveal EP waveguide modes spanning the visible to near-infrared spectral region. The EPs exhibit a sufficient long propagation length of over 16 μm and a very low propagation loss of less than 0.072 dB·μm^-1. These results demonstrate the potential applications of CsPbBr₃ microsheets as subwavelength waveguides in integrated optics.