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Tönu Pullerits. Portrait.

Tönu Pullerits

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Tönu Pullerits. Portrait.

Photostability and Photodegradation Processes in Colloidal CsPbI3 Perovskite Quantum Dots

Author

  • Rui An
  • Fengying Zhang
  • Xianshao Zou
  • Yingying Tang
  • Mingli Liang
  • Ihor Oshchapovskyy
  • Yuchen Liu
  • Alireza Honarfar
  • Yunqian Zhong
  • Chuanshuai Li
  • Huifang Geng
  • Junsheng Chen
  • Sophie E. Canton
  • Tonu Pullerits
  • Kaibo Zheng
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Summary, in English

All-inorganic CsPbI3 perovskite quantum dots (QDs) have attracted intense attention for their successful application in photovoltaics (PVs) and optoelectronics that are enabled by their superior absorption capability and great photoluminescence (PL) properties. However, their photostability remains a practical bottleneck and further optimization is highly desirable. Here, we studied the photostability of as-obtained colloidal CsPbI3 QDs suspended in hexane. We found that light illumination does induce photodegradation of CsPbI3 QDs. Steady-state spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and transient absorption spectroscopy verified that light illumination leads to detachment of the capping agent, collapse of the CsPbI3 QD surface, and finally aggregation of surface Pb0. Both dangling bonds containing surface and Pb0 serve as trap states causing PL quenching with a dramatic decrease of PL quantum yield. Our work provides a detailed insight about the correlation between the structural and photophysical consequences of the photodegradation process in CsPbI3 QDs and may lead to the optimization of such QDs toward device applications.

Department/s

  • Chemical Physics
  • NanoLund: Centre for Nanoscience
  • Centre for Analysis and Synthesis

Publishing year

2018-11-14

Language

English

Pages

39222-39227

Publication/Series

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volume

10

Issue

45

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

The American Chemical Society (ACS)

Topic

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry (including Surface- and Colloid Chemistry)
  • Condensed Matter Physics (including Material Physics, Nano Physics)

Keywords

  • blue-shift emission
  • light illumination
  • photodegradation mechanism
  • surface collapse
  • trap states

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1944-8244