Proceedings of Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MAT-SUS) (NFM22)
Publication date: 11th July 2022
Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) have recently attracted the attention of the research community, due to their excellent optoelectronic properties.[1] Colloidal NCs are typically decorated by organic ligands such as long-alkyl-chain ligands to provide colloidal stability and surface passivation, a parameter that affects also crucially the performance of NC optoelectronic devices. However, such commonly used ligands do not perform as well in perovskite NCs, resulting in fast ligand desorption and loss of the structural integrity during post synthetic purification and processing steps. As a result, new, optimized ligand strategies have been developed for perovskite NCs.[2] In this work, we investigate the effect of hole injection/transporting layers on the performance of perovskite NC light emitting diodes (Pe-NCs-LEDs) using active layers of CsPbBr3 NCs capped with didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB) and DDAB/PbBr2. Bottom electrode optimization is performed investigating various hole injection/transporting layers (PEDOT:PSS, PVK, Poly-TPD) in normal structure Pe-NCs-LEDs. Additionally, the effect of perovskite NCs ligands, and processing atmosphere are discussed using the best performing Pe-NCs-LED device structure.[3] Finally, the functionality of the optimized Pe-NCs-LED device structure is presented using CsPbI3 and CsPb(Br/Cl)3 NCs active layers
Acknowledgments: This work was financially supported by the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus under the “NEW STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE UNITS-YOUNG SCIENTISTS” Program (Grant Agreement No. “INFRASTRUCTURES/1216/0004”, Acronym “NANOSONICS”).