Mixed halide perovskites
are one of the promising candidates in
developing solar cells and light-emitting diodes (LEDs), among other
applications, because of their tunable optical properties. Nonetheless,
photoinduced phase segregation, by formation of segregated Br-rich
and I-rich domains, limits the overall applicability. We tracked the
phase segregation with increasing crystalline size of CsPbBr3–xIx and their photoluminescence
under continuous-wave laser irradiation (405 nm, 10 mW cm–2) and observed the occurrence of the phase segregation from the threshold
size of 46 ± 7 nm. These results have an outstanding agreement
with the diffusion length (45.8 nm) calculated also experimentally
from the emission lifetime and segregation rates. Furthermore, through
Kelvin probe force microscopy, we confirmed the correlation between
the phase segregation and the reversible halide ion migration among
grain centers and boundaries. These results open a way to achieve
segregation-free mixed halide perovskites and improve their performances
in optoelectronic devices.
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