Inkjet printing is a powerful technology for realizing high‐density pixelated perovskite light‐emitting diodes (PeLEDs). However, the coffee‐stain effect in the inkjet printing process often leads to uneven thickness and poor crystallization of printed perovskite features, which deteriorates the performance of PeLEDs. Here, a strategy is developed to suppress the coffee‐stain effect via enhancing Marangoni flow strength. An interfacial poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) layer is incorporated to tune the surface tension of the underlying hole transport layer (HTL) and enhance the perovskite crystallization. The substrate temperature is also carefully controlled to tune the printing solvent evaporation rate rationally. By optimizing the thickness of the PVP layer and the temperature of the printing stage, the coffee‐stain effect is dramatically restrained. In addition, the interfacial insulating PVP layers play a positive role in suppressing leakage current level of PeLEDs by avoiding any direct electrical contact between HTL and electron transporting layer. Finally, an inkjet‐printed PeLED with a brightness of 3640 cd m–2 and external quantum efficiency of 9.0% is achieved. This work highlights the availability of inkjet‐printing technology for fabricating patterned PeLEDs in information display applications.

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Quasi‐2D perovskites are enchanting alternative materials for solar cells due to their intrinsic stability. The manipulation of crystal orientation of quasi‐2D perovskites is indispensable to target efficient devices, however, the origin of orientation during the film fabrication process still lacks in‐depth understanding and convincing evidence yet, which hinders further boosting the performance of photovoltaic devices. Herein, the crystallizing processes during spin‐coating and annealing are probed by in situ grazing‐incidence wide‐angle X‐ray scattering (GIWAXS), and the incident‐angle‐dependent GIWAXS is conducted to unveil the phase distribution in the films. It is found that undesirable lead iodide sol–gel formed intermediate phase would disturb oriented crystalline growth, resulting in random crystal orientation in poor quasi‐2D films. A general strategy is developed via simple additive agent incorporation to suppress the formation of the intermediate phase. Accordingly, highly oriented perovskite films with reduced trap density and higher carrier mobility are obtained, which enables the demonstration of optimized quasi‐2D perovskite solar cells with a power conversion efficiency of 15.2% as well as improved stability. This work paves a promising way to manipulate the quasi‐2D perovskites nucleation and crystallization processes via tuning nucleation stage.

Metal halide perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) have been regarded as alternative candidates for full-color display applications with rapid progress to surge the external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) over 20%. However, in contrast to the high efficiencies of green, red, and near-infrared PeLEDs, the performance of their blue cousins is still lagging behind, especially the pure-blue one. Obtaining blue perovskite films with negligible nonradiative recombination loss and high stability is of great importance to realize efficient and spectrally stable blue PeLEDs. In this work, through partially replacing the toxic lead ions (Pb2+) with ecofriendly strontium ions (Sr2+) to tune the emission wavelength along with using passivation strategies, all-inorganic pure-blue perovskite films with a high photoluminescence quantum yield of 60.7% were achieved, which then delivered PeLEDs with a luminance of 510 cd m–2 and an EQE of 1.43%. The device yields a record radiance among the most efficient PeLEDs at 467 nm. In addition, the resultant PeLEDs displayed exceptional spectral stability during the electrical bias operation. Our work provides a promising avenue to develop environmentally friendly perovskite materials for efficient and spectrally stable pure-blue PeLEDs and beyond.

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