Metal halide perovskites in the form of nanocrystals are highly efficient light emitters at visible-NIR wavelengths. In this work, the optical properties of single nanocrystals and ensembles will be discussed, as also several applications in nanophotonics. At low temperatures, single nanocrystals can be also single photon emitters if blinking and spectral diffusion is conveniently reduced. In the case of nanocrystal assemblies, stimulated emission can be observed with thresholds lower than 10 μJ/cm2 under nanosecond laser excitation at low temperatures, whose physical origin is attributed to single exciton recombination. Finally, the coupling of perovskite nanocrystals to the optical modes of hyperbolic metaldielectric metamaterials has been studied and demonstrated an important Purcell enhancement of the exciton radiative emission by more than a factor three for CsPbI3 and around factor two for FAPbI3 when the distance between the emitters and HMM is 10 nm.
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