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A general method for growth of perovskite single-crystal arrays for high performance photodetectors

Show Author's Information Shiheng Wang1,  Zhenkun Gu1( ),  Rudai Zhao1,  Ting Zhang1,  Yunjie Lou1,  Lutong Guo2,  Meng Su2,  Lihong Li2,  Yiqiang Zhang1( ),  Yanlin Song2,3( )
Green Catalysis Center, and College of Chemistry, Henan Institute of Advanced Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450051, China
Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Perovskite single-crystal arrays have attracted intensive attention because of their great potentials for integrated optoelectronic devices. However, the traditional top-down lithography strategy requires complex processing and is detrimental to perovskite crystal structures, which is incompatible to directly pattern perovskite single crystals. Herein, we report a lithography-free method to realize the controllable growth of perovskite single-crystal arrays. Through introducing a printed hydrophilic-hydrophobic substrate into the crystallization system, the MAPbCl3 single-crystal arrays with precise location and uniform size are effectively fabricated. This method can be applied to prepare diverse perovskite single-crystal arrays, including MAPbBr3, CsPbCl3, CsPbBr3, Cs3Cu2I5, Cs3Bi2I9, and (BA)2(MA)3Pb4I11. The perovskite single crystals can be selectively grown on the electrodes to fabricate ultraviolet photodetectors. The strategy demonstrates a facile approach to fabricate large-scale perovskite single-crystal arrays and opens a pathway to produce diverse perovskite optoelectronic devices.


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A general method for growth of perovskite single-crystal arrays for high performance photodetectors

Show Author's information Shiheng Wang1, Zhenkun Gu1( ), Rudai Zhao1, Ting Zhang1, Yunjie Lou1, Lutong Guo2, Meng Su2, Lihong Li2, Yiqiang Zhang1( ), Yanlin Song2,3( )
Green Catalysis Center, and College of Chemistry, Henan Institute of Advanced Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450051, China
Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Abstract

Perovskite single-crystal arrays have attracted intensive attention because of their great potentials for integrated optoelectronic devices. However, the traditional top-down lithography strategy requires complex processing and is detrimental to perovskite crystal structures, which is incompatible to directly pattern perovskite single crystals. Herein, we report a lithography-free method to realize the controllable growth of perovskite single-crystal arrays. Through introducing a printed hydrophilic-hydrophobic substrate into the crystallization system, the MAPbCl3 single-crystal arrays with precise location and uniform size are effectively fabricated. This method can be applied to prepare diverse perovskite single-crystal arrays, including MAPbBr3, CsPbCl3, CsPbBr3, Cs3Cu2I5, Cs3Bi2I9, and (BA)2(MA)3Pb4I11. The perovskite single crystals can be selectively grown on the electrodes to fabricate ultraviolet photodetectors. The strategy demonstrates a facile approach to fabricate large-scale perovskite single-crystal arrays and opens a pathway to produce diverse perovskite optoelectronic devices.

Keywords: lithography-free, single-crystal arrays, hydrophilic-hydrophobic substrate, ultraviolet (UV) photodetector

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Received: 15 December 2021
Revised: 15 January 2022
Accepted: 28 January 2022
Published: 28 March 2022
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This work was supported financially by the National Key R&D Program of China (Nos. 2018YFA0208501 and 2018YFA0703200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Nos. 91963212, 52103236, 51773206, 21875260, and 51961145102 [BRICS project]), K. C. Wong Education Foundation, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (No. BNLMS-CXXM-202005), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2021TQ0285), and Outstanding Young Talent Research Fund of Zhengzhou University. The authors also thank the Advanced Analysis & Computation Center at Zhengzhou University for materials and device characterization support.

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