Metal
halide perovskites have been focused as a candidate applied as a promising
luminescent material for next-generation high-quality lighting and
high-definition display. However, as perovskite films formed, high
density of defects would be produced in solution processing inevitably,
leading to low exciton recombination efficiency in light-emitting
diodes (LEDs). Herein, a facile and novel self-passivation strategy
to inhibit defect formation in perovskite films for constructing high-performance
LEDs is developed. For the first time, we introduce 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane
(cyclam) in perovskite precursor solution, and it spontaneously passivates
defect states of CsPbBr3-based perovskites by coaction
between amine and uncoordinated lead ions during spin-coating without
an anti-solvent process. Furthermore, as a delocalized system, cyclam
also possesses chemical properties that facilitate exciton transportation.
The proposed passivation strategy boosts the external quantum efficiency
from 1.25% (control device) to 16.24% (cyclam-passivated device).
Furthermore, defect passivation is also conductive to reduce LED degradation
paths and improve device stability as the extrapolated lifetime (T
50) of LEDs at an initial brightness of 100
cd/m2 is increased from 0.9 to 127 h. These findings indicate
that the introduction of cyclam is highly effective to enhance the
performance of LEDs, and such a strategy in effectively reducing the
defects could be also applied in other perovskite-based devices, such
as lasers, solar cells, and photodetectors.