Solution-Processed Halide Perovskite Single Crystals with Intrinsic Compositional Gradients for X-ray Detection

Abstract

Although epitaxial growth is the fundamental method to realize lattice matched heterojunctions in electronics manufacturing, large-scale epitaxial single crystal layers based on solution-processing have rarely been reported. Here, cascade organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite single crystals with purity quotient over 99.9% consisting of chlorine, bromine, and iodine are fabricated by solution-processed epitaxial growth, in which the mismatch rate between adjacent layers is less than 1%. The area of solution-processed epitaxial growth is proved up to 4 cm2, and the speed reaches nearly 100 nm s–1. The resulting high-quality interface effectively improves bonding between adjacent layers, and the average mobility is calculated to be over 200 cm2 V–1 s–1 in samples with different structures. Based on a specific structure with n-type, p-type, and intrinsic layers, a 7.55 mm-thickness X-ray photodiode with sensitivity 1.58 μC mGy–1 cm–2 is fabricated. This work provides a different method for fabricating solution-processed based electronic devices and makes stable perovskite-based devices more accessible.