Supramolecular assembly of blue and green halide perovskites with near-unity photoluminescence.

Zhu, Cheng; Jin, Jianbo; Wang, Zhen; Xu, Zhenpeng; Folgueras, Maria C; Jiang, Yuxin; Uzundal, Can B; Le, Han K D et al. · Science · 2024

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The metal-halide ionic octahedron is the optoelectronic unit for halide perovskites, and a crown ether-assisted supramolecular assembly approach can pack various ionic octahedra into tunable symmetries. In this work, we demonstrate near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) blue and green emission with the supramolecular assembly of hafnium (Hf) and zirconium (Zr) halide octahedral clusters. (18C6@K)<sub>2</sub>HfBr<sub>6</sub> powders showed blue emission with a near-unity PLQY (96.2%), and green emission was also achieved with (18C6@K)<sub>2</sub>ZrCl<sub>4</sub>Br<sub>2</sub> powders at a PLQY of 82.7%. These highly emissive powders feature facile low-temperature solution-based synthesis conditions and maintain high PLQY in solution-processable semiconductor inks under ambient conditions, and they were used in thin-film displays and emissive three-dimensional-printed architectures that exhibited high spatial resolution.