Reducing the impact of Auger recombination in quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes.

Jiang, Yuanzhi; Cui, Minghuan; Li, Saisai; Sun, Changjiu; Huang, Yanmin; Wei, Junli; Zhang, Li; Lv, Mei et al. · Nat Commun · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Rapid Auger recombination represents an important challenge faced by quasi-2D perovskites, which induces resulting perovskite light-emitting diodes' (PeLEDs) efficiency roll-off. In principle, Auger recombination rate is proportional to materials' exciton binding energy (E<sub>b</sub>). Thus, Auger recombination can be suppressed by reducing the corresponding materials' E<sub>b</sub>. Here, a polar molecule, p-fluorophenethylammonium, is employed to generate quasi-2D perovskites with reduced E<sub>b</sub>. Recombination kinetics reveal the Auger recombination rate does decrease to one-order-of magnitude lower compared to its PEA<sup>+</sup> analogues. After effective passivation, nonradiative recombination is greatly suppressed, which enables resulting films to exhibit outstanding photoluminescence quantum yields in a broad range of excitation density. We herein demonstrate the very efficient PeLEDs with a peak external quantum efficiency of 20.36%. More importantly, devices exhibit a record luminance of 82,480 cd m<sup>-2</sup> due to the suppressed efficiency roll-off, which represent one of the brightest visible PeLEDs yet.