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Yuan, MingjianLi Na Quan
Comin, Riccardo
Walters, Grant
Sabatini, Randy
Voznyy, Oleksandr

Voznyy, Oleksandr

Zhao, Yongbiao
Beauregard, Eric M.
Kanjanaboos, Pongsakorn

Lu, Zhenghong
Kim, Dong Ha

Sargent, Edward H.
KAUST Grant Number
KUS-11-009-21Date
2016-06-27Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/678423
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Organometal halide perovskites exhibit large bulk crystal domain sizes, rare traps, excellent mobilities and carriers that are free at room temperature - properties that support their excellent performance in charge-separating devices. In devices that rely on the forward injection of electrons and holes, such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), excellent mobilities contribute to the efficient capture of non-equilibrium charge carriers by rare non-radiative centres. Moreover, the lack of bound excitons weakens the competition of desired radiative (over undesired non-radiative) recombination. Here we report a perovskite mixed material comprising a series of differently quantum-size-tuned grains that funnels photoexcitations to the lowest-bandgap light-emitter in the mixture. The materials function as charge carrier concentrators, ensuring that radiative recombination successfully outcompetes trapping and hence non-radiative recombination. We use the new material to build devices that exhibit an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 8.8% and a radiance of 80W sr-1m-2. These represent the brightest and most efficient solution-processed near-infrared LEDs to date.Citation
Yuan, M., Quan, L. N., Comin, R., Walters, G., Sabatini, R., Voznyy, O., … Sargent, E. H. (2016). Perovskite energy funnels for efficient light-emitting diodes. Nature Nanotechnology, 11(10), 872–877. doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.110Sponsors
This publication is based in part on work supported by Award KUS-11-009-21, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), by the Ontario Research Fund Research Excellence Program, and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. L. N. Quan and D. H. Kim acknowledge the financial support by National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (2014R1A2A1A09005656). The authors thank R. Wolowiec and D. Kopilovic for their help during the course of the study.Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUPJournal
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGYAdditional Links
http://www.nature.com/articles/nnano.2016.110ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1038/NNANO.2016.110