Spectra stable blue perovskite light-emitting diodes

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 1868
• Main Authors: Jiang, Yuanzhi, Qin, Chaochao, Cui, Minghuan, He, Tingwei, Liu, Kaikai, Huang, Yanmin, Luo, Menghui, Zhang, Li, Xu, Hongyu, Li, Saisai, Wei, Junli, Liu, Zhiyong, Wang, Huanhua, Kim, Gi-Hwan, Yuan, Mingjian, Chen, Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 23-04-2019; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/301/1019/1020; 639/638/675; Alloy development; Alloying; Cesium; Cesium base alloys; Color; Composition; Emitters; Humanities and Social Sciences; Light emitting diodes; multidisciplinary; Perovskites; Photoluminescence; Photons; Quantum efficiency; Rubidium; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Spectra; Spectral emittance; Stability
• ISSN: 2041-1723; 2041-1723
• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09794-7

Device performance and in particular device stability for blue perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) remain considerable challenges for the whole community. In this manuscript, we conceive an approach by tuning the ‘A-site’ cation composition of perovskites to develop blue-emitters. We herein report a Rubidium-Cesium alloyed, quasi-two-dimensional perovskite and demonstrate its great potential for pure-blue PeLED applications. Composition engineering and in-situ passivation are conducted to further improve the material’s emission property and stabilities. Consequently, we get a prominent film photoluminescence quantum yield of around 82% under low excitation density. Encouraged by these findings, we finally achieve a spectra-stable blue PeLED with the peak external quantum efficiency of 1.35% and a half-lifetime of 14.5 min, representing the most efficient and stable pure-blue PeLEDs reported so far. The strategy is also demonstrated to be able to generate efficient perovskite blue emitters and PeLEDs in the whole blue spectral region (from 454 to 492 nm).
Besides device operational stability, the color stability is also an important challenge for the perovskite light-emitting diodes, especially the blue ones. Here Jiang et al. report the most efficient and color stable pure-blue perovskite LEDs so far, with a half-lifetime of 14.5 minutes.