Room‐Temperature Triple‐Ligand Surface Engineering Synergistically Boosts Ink Stability, Recombination Dynamics, and Charge Injection toward EQE‐11.6% Perovskite QLEDs

Jizhong Song, Jinhang Li, Leimeng Xu, Jianhai Li, Fengjuan Zhang, Boning Han, Qingsong Shan, Haibo Zeng

Advanced Materials · 2018 · 551 citations · 48 references

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TL;DR

Developing low‑cost, high‑quality quantum dots for efficient LEDs is essential for next‑generation ultra‑high‑definition flexible displays. The study aims to create a room‑temperature triple‑ligand surface engineering approach that yields ideal perovskite QDs with high photoluminescence quantum yield and stable ink for efficient QLEDs. By combining short ligands TOAB, DDAB, and OTAc, the authors achieve unity radiative decay, stable ink characteristics, and effective charge injection and transport in QD films. The resulting QDs show >90% PLQY, 61% PLQY in dopant‑engineered films, and enable green QLEDs with peak EQE 11.6%, IQE 52.2%, and power efficiency 44.65 lm W⁻¹, the best performance reported for colloidal CsPbBr₃ emitters, demonstrating broad applicability for high‑definition displays and lighting.

Abstract

Developing low-cost and high-quality quantum dots (QDs) or nanocrystals (NCs) and their corresponding efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is crucial for the next-generation ultra-high-definition flexible displays. Here, there is a report on a room-temperature triple-ligand surface engineering strategy to play the synergistic role of short ligands of tetraoctylammonium bromide (TOAB), didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB), and octanoic acid (OTAc) toward "ideal" perovskite QDs with a high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of >90%, unity radiative decay in its intrinsic channel, stable ink characteristics, and effective charge injection and transportation in QD films, resulting in the highly efficient QD-based LEDs (QLEDs). Furthermore, the QD films with less nonradiative recombination centers exhibit improved PL properties with a PLQY of 61% through dopant engineering in A-site. The robustness of such properties is demonstrated by the fabrication of green electroluminescent LEDs based on CsPbBr3 QDs with the peak external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 11.6%, and the corresponding peak internal quantum efficiency (IQE) and power efficiency are 52.2% and 44.65 lm W-1 , respectively, which are the most-efficient perovskite QLEDs with colloidal CsPbBr3 QDs as emitters up to now. These results demonstrate that the as-obtained QD inks have a wide range application in future high-definition QD displays and high-quality lightings.

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