High-Performance Deep Ultraviolet Photodetector Based on a One-Dimensional Lead-Free Halide Perovskite CsCu₂I₃ Film with High Stability

Abstract

Lead halide perovskites have received much attention in the field of optoelectronic devices. However, the environment-unfriendly nature and intrinsic instability of these perovskites hamper their commercial applications. In this work, one novel one-dimensional lead-free halide perovskite with high stability, CsCu₂I₃, was prepared via an antisolvent-assisted crystallization method. The prepared CsCu₂I₃ bears a high exciton binding energy of ∼105 meV and a high photoluminescence quantum yield of 12.3%. We fabricated a deep ultraviolet photodetector based on a CsCu₂I₃ film that is nearly blind to 405 nm visible light but is sensitive to 265 and 365 nm illumination. The device exhibits excellent reproducibility and a high <i>I</i>_light/<i>I</i>_dark ratio of 22 under 265 nm illumination. Furthermore, the responsivity, specific detectivity, and external quantum efficiency are as high as 22.1 mA/W, 1.2 × 10¹¹ Jones, and 10.3% under a light density of 0.305 mW/cm², respectively. These findings demonstrate that CsCu₂I₃ perovskites should have great potential for future optoelectronics.