High-Performance All-Inorganic Architecture Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Tens-of-Nanometers-Sized CsPbBr₃ Emitters in a Carrier-Confined Heterostructure

Abstract

Developing green perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) with a high external quantum efficiency (EQE) and low efficiency roll-off at high brightness remains a critical challenge. Nanostructured emitter-based devices have shown high efficiency but restricted ascending luminance at high current densities, while devices based on large-sized crystals exhibit low efficiency roll-off but face great challenges to high efficiency. Herein, we develop an all-inorganic device architecture combined with utilizing tens-of-nanometers-sized CsPbBr₃ (TNS-CsPbBr₃) emitters in a carrier-confined heterostructure to realize green PeLEDs that exhibit high EQEs and low efficiency roll-off. A typical type-I heterojunction containing TNS-CsPbBr₃ crystals and wide-bandgap Cs₄PbBr₆ within a grain is formed by carefully controlling the precursor ratio. These heterostructured TNS-CsPbBr₃ emitters simultaneously enhance carrier confinement and retain low Auger recombination under a large injected carrier density. Benefiting from a simple device architecture consisting of an emissive layer and an oxide electron-transporting layer, the PeLEDs exhibit a sub-bandgap turn-on voltage of 2.0 V and steeply rising luminance. In consequence, we achieved green PeLEDs demonstrating a peak EQE of 17.0% at the brightness of 36,000 cd m^-2, and the EQE remained at 15.7% and 12.6% at the brightness of 100,000 and 200,000 cd m^-2, respectively. In addition, our results underscore the role of interface degradation during device operation as a factor in device failure.