Boosting Tunable Blue Luminescence of Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets through Postsynthetic Surface Trap Repair

Bernhard J. Bohn, Yu Tong, Moritz Gramlich, May Ling Lai, Markus Döblinger, Kun Wang, Robert L.Z. Hoye, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Samuel D. Stranks, Alexander S. Urban, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Jochen Feldmann

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Abstract

The easily tunable emission of halide perovskite nanocrystals throughout the visible spectrum makes them an extremely promising material for light-emitting applications. Whereas high quantum yields and long-term colloidal stability have already been achieved for nanocrystals emitting in the red and green spectral range, the blue region currently lags behind with low quantum yields, broad emission profiles, and insufficient colloidal stability. In this work, we present a facile synthetic approach for obtaining two-dimensional CsPbBr3 nanoplatelets with monolayer-precise control over their thickness, resulting in sharp photoluminescence and electroluminescence peaks with a tunable emission wavelength between 432 and 497 nm due to quantum confinement. Subsequent addition of a PbBr2-ligand solution repairs surface defects likely stemming from bromide and lead vacancies in a subensemble of weakly emissive nanoplatelets. The overall photoluminescence quantum yield of the blue-emissive colloidal dispersions is consequently enhanced up to a value of 73 ± 2%. Transient optical spectroscopy measurements focusing on the excitonic resonances further confirm the proposed repair process. Additionally, the high stability of these nanoplatelets in films and to prolonged ultraviolet light exposure is shown.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5231-5238
Number of pages8
JournalNano Letters
Volume18
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Aug 2018

Keywords

  • CsPbBr
  • blue light emitting diodes
  • defect passivation
  • exciton binding energy
  • nanoplatelets
  • perovskite nanocrystals
  • quantum confinement

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