Metal halide perovskites have aroused tremendous interest in the past several years for their promising applications in display and lighting. However, the development of blue perovskite light‐emitting diodes (PeLEDs) still lags far behind that of their green and red cousins due to the difficulty in obtaining high‐quality blue perovskite emissive layers. In this study, a simple approach is conceived to improve the emission and electrical properties of blue perovskites. By introducing an alkali metal ion to occupy some sites of peripheral suspended organic ligands, the nonradiative recombination is suppressed, and, consequently, blue CsPb(Br/Cl)3 nanocrystals with a high photoluminescence quantum efficiency of 38.4% are obtained. The introduced K+ acts as a new type of metal ligand, which not only suppresses nonradiative pathways but also improves the charge carrier transport of the perovskite nanocrystals. With further engineering of the device structure to balance the charge injection rate, a spectrally stable and efficient blue PeLED with a maximum external quantum efficiency of 1.96% at the emission peak of 477 nm is fabricated.
CsPbI3 perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) have recently emerged
as promising materials for optoelectronic devices because of their
superior properties. However, the poor stability of the CsPbI3 NCs induced by easy ligand desorption represents a key issue
limiting their practical applications. Herein, we report stable and
highly luminescent black-phase CsPbI3 NCs passivated by
novel ligands of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). Theoretical calculation
results reveal a stronger adsorption energy of SDS molecules at the
CsPbI3 surface than that of commonly used oleic acid. As
a result, the defect formation caused by the ligand loss during the
purification process is greatly suppressed. The optimized SDS–CsPbI3 NCs exhibit significantly reduced surface defects, much enhanced
stability, and superior photoluminescence efficiency. The red perovskite
light-emitting diodes based on the SDS–CsPbI3 NCs
demonstrate an external quantum efficiency of 8.4%, which shows a
4-fold improvement compared to the devices based on the oleic acid-modified
CsPbI3 NCs.
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