All-inorganic zero-dimensional (0D) metal halides are widely applied in the fields of display and solid-state lighting due to their excellent photoluminescence (PL) properties and high stability.
At present, 0D metal halides have achieved high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs) in green, yellow and red light region. By contrast, the development of high-efficiency blue-emitting 0D metal halides remains challenging.
Recently, a research group led by Prof. Han Keli from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied the dynamic mechanism of all-inorganic 0D metal halides, and obtained high PLQY in pure-blue spectral region by doping copper into cesium zinc halides.
This work was published inAngew. Chem. Int. Ed. on August 12.
The scientists synthesized copper doped 0D cesium zinc halide single crystals. After the incorporation of Cu+ into Cs2ZnBr4, an obvious exciton absorption peak appeared, while the PL peak position did not change.
The PLQY increased from 3.6% to 65.3%. Meanwhile, the PL lifetime was significantly longer, indicating that Cu+ doping could effectively inhibit the non-radiative recombination process in Cs2ZnBr4.
Detailed spectral analysis showed that the blue emission in Cs2ZnBr4:Cu originated from triplet self-trapped excitons, and exhibited characteristics of dual emission at low temperatures. And Cs2ZnBr4:Cu also exhibited good humidity and thermal stability.
In addition, scientists obtained an efficient sky-blue emission (PLQY ~73.1%) of Rb2ZnCl4:Cu by substituting a-site cation and halogen.
This work provides aneffective strategyfor the development of environmentally friendly, low-cost and high-efficiency blue-emitting 0D all-inorganicmetalhalides.
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More information:Pengfei Cheng et al. Doped Zero‐Dimensional Cesium Zinc Halides for High Efficiency Blue Light Emission,Angewandte Chemie International Edition(2020).DOI: 10.1002/anie.202008098
Journal information:Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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