Stable near-to-ideal performance of a solution-grown single-crystal perovskite X-ray detector
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PreprintAuthors
Kovalenko, Maksym V.
Sakhatskyi, Kostiantyn
Turedi, Bekir

Matt, Gebhard
Lintangpradipto, Muhammad
Naphade, Rounak

Mohammed, Omar F.

Yakunin, Sergii
Bakr, Osman

KAUST Department
Chemical Science ProgramFunctional Nanomaterials Lab (FuNL)
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)
Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy and Four-dimensional Electron Imaging Research Group
Date
2021-12-01Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/673932
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Abstract The ideal photodetector is the one able to detect every single incoming photon. In particular, in X-ray medical imaging, the radiation dose for patients can then approach its fundamentally lowest limit set by the Poisson photon statistics. Such near-to-ideal X-ray detection characteristics have been demonstrated with only a few semiconductor materials such as Si1 and CdTe2; however, their industrial deployment in medical diagnostics is still impeded by elaborate and costly fabrication processes. Hybrid metal halide perovskites – newcomer semiconductors -– make for a viable alternative3,4,5 owing to their scalable, inexpensive, robust, and versatile solution growth and recent demonstrations of single gamma-photon counting under high applied bias voltages6,7. The major hurdle with perovskites as mixed electronic-ionic conductors, however, arises from the rapid material's degradation under high electric field8,9,10,11, thus far used in perovskite X-ray detectors12,13. Here we show that both near-to-ideal and long-term stable performance of perovskite X-ray detectors can be attained in the photovoltaic mode of operation at zero-voltage bias, employing thick and uniform methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) single crystal (SC) films (up to 300 µm), solution-grown directly on hole-transporting electrodes. The operational device stability is equivalent to the intrinsic chemical shelf lifetime of MAPbI3, being at least one year in the studied case. Detection efficiency of 88% and noise equivalent dose of 90 pGyair (lower than the dose of a single incident photon) are obtained with 18 keV X-rays, allowing for single-photon counting, as well as low-dose and energy-resolved X-ray imaging. These findings benchmark hybrid perovskites as practically suited materials for developing low-cost commercial detector arrays for X-ray imaging technologies.Citation
Kovalenko, M., Sakhatskyi, K., Turedi, B., Matt, G., Lintangpradipto, M., Naphade, R., … Bakr, O. (2021). Stable near-to-ideal performance of a solution-grown single-crystal perovskite X-ray detector. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1117933/v1Sponsors
The work at ETH Zürich was financially supported by the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) under grant agreement 46894.1 IP-ENG and by ETH Zürich through the ETH+ Project SynMatLab: Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Synthesis.Publisher
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-1117933/v1