Interferometric Near-field Fano Spectroscopy of Single Halide Perovskite Nanoparticles

Semiconducting halide perovskite nanoparticles support Mie-type resonances that confine light on the nanoscale in localized modes with well-defined spatial field profiles yet unknown near-field dynamics. We introduce an interferometric scattering-type near-field microscopy technique to probe the local electric field dynamics at the surface of a single MAPbI3 nanoparticle. The amplitude and phase of the coherent light scattering from such modes are probed in a broad spectral range and with high spatial resolution. In the spectral domain, we uncover a Fano resonance with a 2 pi phase jump. In the near-field dynamics, this Fano resonance gives rise to a destructive interference dip after a few femtoseconds. Mie theory suggests that the interference between electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole modes of the particle, with spectra affected by resonant interband absorption of MAPbI3, lies at the origin of this effect. Our results open up a new approach for probing local near-field dynamics of single nanoparticles.