Efficient metal halide perovskite light-emitting diodes with significantly improved light extraction on nanophotonic substrates

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 727
• Main Authors: Zhang, Qianpeng, Tavakoli, Mohammad Mahdi, Gu, Leilei, Zhang, Daquan, Tang, Lei, Gao, Yuan, Guo, Ji, Lin, Yuanjing, Leung, Siu-Fung, Poddar, Swapnadeep, Fu, Yu, Fan, Zhiyong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 13-02-2019; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 147/135; 639/301/1019/1020/1091; 639/925/927/1007; 639/925/927/1021; Charge injection; Facilities management; Humanities and Social Sciences; Lead; Light emitting diodes; Metal halides; Metals; multidisciplinary; Nanotechnology; Nanowires; Optimization; Organic light emitting diodes; Perovskites; Quantum efficiency; Refractivity; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Substrates
• ISSN: 2041-1723; 2041-1723
• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08561-y

Metal halide perovskite has emerged as a promising material for light-emitting diodes. In the past, the performance of devices has been improved mainly by optimizing the active and charge injection layers. However, the large refractive index difference among different materials limits the overall light extraction. Herein, we fabricate efficient methylammonium lead bromide light-emitting diodes on nanophotonic substrates with an optimal device external quantum efficiency of 17.5% which is around twice of the record for the planar device based on this material system. Furthermore, optical modelling shows that a high light extraction efficiency of 73.6% can be achieved as a result of a two-step light extraction process involving nanodome light couplers and nanowire optical antennas on the nanophotonic substrate. These results suggest that utilization of nanophotonic structures can be an effective approach to achieve high performance perovskite light-emitting diodes.
The rapid development of halide perovskite light-emitting diodes mainly relies on the optimization of the active layer and charge injection layers. Here Zhang et al. incorporate three-dimensional nanophotonic substrates to enhance light out-coupling and achieve high external quantum efficiency of 17.5%.