Highly Stable and Sensitive (PEA)₂PbBr₄/CsPbBr₃ Single‐Crystal Heterojunction X‐Ray Detector with Ultra‐Low Detection Limit

Abstract

Abstract Metal halide perovskite (MHP) single crystals have shown great potential for high‐performance X‐ray detection due to their excellent carrier transport properties, tunable optical bandgap, and low‐temperature fabrication process. However, 3D perovskite single crystals suffer from severe ion migration, limiting the stability and sensitivity of X‐ray detectors. Herein, a lowing temperature crystallization (LTC) method for liquid‐phase epitaxial growth of 2D (PEA) 2 PbBr 4 single‐crystal (SC) film on 3D CsPbBr 3 substrate is demonstratedand a 2D/3D (PEA) 2 PbBr 4 /CsPbBr 3 SC heterojunction is successfully constructed. The epitaxial (PEA) 2 PbBr 4 layer shows a pronounced passivation effect on CsPbBr 3 SC with a low trap density of 2.27 × 10 10 cm −3 . As such, the prepared 2D/3D heterojunction X‐ray detector achieves a record‐low detectable dose rate of 3.05 nGy air s −1 and high sensitivity of 34496 µC Gy air −1 cm −2 in 120 keV hard X‐ray detection, with a largely suppressed dark current drift of 2.49 × 10 −4 nA cm −1 s −1 V −1 . In addition, the heterojunction detector exhibits a self‐driven sensitivity of 44 µC Gy air −1 cm −2 due to its built‐in electric field. This work provides a simple strategy to controllable construct 2D/3D MHP SC heterojunction with excellent optoelectronic characteristic, which is conducive to promoting the development of MHP SC X‐ray detectors and other optoelectronic devices.