Large cation ethylammonium incorporated perovskite for efficient and spectra stable blue light-emitting diodes.

Chu, Zema; Zhao, Yang; Ma, Fei; Zhang, Cai-Xin; Deng, Huixiong; Gao, Feng; Ye, Qiufeng; Meng, Junhua et al. · Nat Commun · 2020

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) have showed significant progress in recent years; the external quantum efficiency (EQE) of electroluminescence in green and red regions has exceeded 20%, but the efficiency in blue lags far behind. Here, a large cation CH<sub>3</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NH<sub>2</sub><sup>+</sup> is added in PEA<sub>2</sub>(CsPbBr<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>PbBr<sub>4</sub> perovskite to decrease the Pb-Br orbit coupling and increase the bandgap for blue emission. X-ray diffraction and nuclear magnetic resonance results confirmed that the EA has successfully replaced Cs<sup>+</sup> cations to form PEA<sub>2</sub>(Cs<sub>1-x</sub>EA<sub>x</sub>PbBr<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>PbBr<sub>4</sub>. This method modulates the photoluminescence from the green region (508 nm) into blue (466 nm), and over 70% photoluminescence quantum yield in blue is obtained. In addition, the emission spectra is stable under light and thermal stress. With configuration of PeLEDs with 60% EABr, as high as 12.1% EQE of sky-blue electroluminescence located at 488 nm has been demonstrated, which will pave the way for the full color display for the PeLEDs.