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Zhang S, Jin L, Lu Y, Zhang L, Yang J, Zhao Q, Sun D, Thompson JJP, Yuan B, Ma K, Akriti, Park JY, Lee YH, Wei Z, Finkenauer BP, Blach DD, Kumar S, Peng H, Mannodi-Kanakkithodi A, Yu Y, Malic E, Lu G, Dou L, Huang L. Moiré superlattices in twisted two-dimensional halide perovskites. NATURE MATERIALS 2024:10.1038/s41563-024-01921-0. [PMID: 38906993 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01921-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 05/14/2024] [Indexed: 06/23/2024]
Abstract
Moiré superlattices have emerged as a new platform for studying strongly correlated quantum phenomena, but these systems have been largely limited to van der Waals layer two-dimensional materials. Here we introduce moiré superlattices leveraging ultrathin, ligand-free halide perovskites, facilitated by ionic interactions. Square moiré superlattices with varying periodic lengths are clearly visualized through high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. Twist-angle-dependent transient photoluminescence microscopy and electrical characterizations indicate the emergence of localized bright excitons and trapped charge carriers near a twist angle of ~10°. The localized excitons are accompanied by enhanced exciton emission, attributed to an increased oscillator strength by a theoretically predicted flat band. This research showcases the promise of two-dimensional perovskites as unique room-temperature moiré materials.
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- Shuchen Zhang
- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
- Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Flexible Electronics (Future Technologies), Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Center for Nanochemistry, Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, USA
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
- Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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Qiu L, Si G, Bao X, Liu J, Guan M, Wu Y, Qi X, Xing G, Dai Z, Bao Q, Li G. Interfacial engineering of halide perovskites and two-dimensional materials. Chem Soc Rev 2023; 52:212-247. [PMID: 36468561 DOI: 10.1039/d2cs00218c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2022]
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Recently, halide perovskites (HPs) and layered two-dimensional (2D) materials have received significant attention from industry and academia alike. HPs are emerging materials that have exciting photoelectric properties, such as a high absorption coefficient, rapid carrier mobility and high photoluminescence quantum yields, making them excellent candidates for various optoelectronic applications. 2D materials possess confined carrier mobility in 2D planes and are widely employed in nanostructures to achieve interfacial modification. HP/2D material interfaces could potentially reveal unprecedented interfacial properties, including light absorbance with desired spectral overlap, tunable carrier dynamics and modified stability, which may lead to several practical applications. In this review, we attempt to provide a comprehensive perspective on the development of interfacial engineering of HP/2D material interfaces. Specifically, we highlight the recent progress in HP/2D material interfaces considering their architectures, electronic energetics tuning and interfacial properties, discuss the potential applications of these interfaces and analyze the challenges and future research directions of interfacial engineering of HP/2D material interfaces. This review links the fields of HPs and 2D materials through interfacial engineering to provide insights into future innovations and their great potential applications in optoelectronic devices.
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- Lei Qiu
- Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- Melbourne Center for Nanofabrication, Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility, 151 Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
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- Joint Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Macau SAR 999078, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- Hunan Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Energy Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Optoelectronic, Xiangtan University, Hunan 411105, China
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- Joint Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Macau SAR 999078, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan 430074, China. .,Shenzhen Institute, China University of Geosciences, Shenzhen 518057, China
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- Institute of Energy Materials Science (IEMS), University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.,Nanjing kLight Laser Technology Co. Ltd., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210032, China.
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- Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan 430074, China. .,Zhejiang Institute, China University of Geosciences, Hangzhou 311305, China
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Li YT, Li JZ, Ren L, Xu K, Chen S, Han L, Liu H, Guo XL, Yu DL, Li DH, Ding L, Peng LM, Ren TL. Light-Controlled Reconfigurable Optical Synapse Based on Carbon Nanotubes/2D Perovskite Heterostructure for Image Recognition. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:28221-28229. [PMID: 35679528 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c05818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Two-dimensional (2D) halide perovskite material is characterized by a mixed conducting behavior that possesses both electronic and ionic conductivity. The study on the influence of the light on ion migration in the 2D perovskite is helpful to improve the performance of perovskite-based optoelectronic devices. Here, we constructed an exfoliated 2D perovskite/carbon nanotubes (CNTs) heterostructure optical synapse, in which CNTs can be used as nanoprobes to qualitatively observe the ion aggregation or dissipation process in 2D perovskite, and found that light significantly changes the memory curve of the reconfigurable optical synapses. Through the molecular dynamic simulation, the dynamic process of ion migration in the heterostructure was simulated and the electrostatic interaction effect of nonequilibrium charge distribution of CNTs on iodide ion was demonstrated. Finally, an effective light-controlled process was realized through the synapses, which in situ regulated the performance of the weight-value discretized BP (WD-BP) neural network. This work lays a foundation for the future development of intelligent nano-optoelectronic devices.
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- Yu-Tao Li
- College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People's Republic of China
- School of Integrated Circuits, The Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices and Center for Carbon-based Electronics, Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), Nanjing 211816, China
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- College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices and Center for Carbon-based Electronics, Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices and Center for Carbon-based Electronics, Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- School of Integrated Circuits, The Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Feng F, Wang T, Qiao J, Min C, Yuan X, Somekh M. Plasmonic and Graphene-Functionalized High-Performance Broadband Quasi-Two-Dimensional Perovskite Hybrid Photodetectors. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:61496-61505. [PMID: 34919394 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c16631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Quasi-two-dimensional (2D) layered organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have attracted extensive attention, owing to their excellent optoelectronic tunability and moisture stability compared with three-dimensional perovskite counterparts and show great potential for application in photodetectors (PDs). However, owing to the unavoidable grain boundary defects of perovskite polycrystalline films, the photocurrent is limited by poor light absorption and charge mobility. Therefore, the preparation of quasi-2D perovskite films with strong light trapping and high charge mobility has been challenging. In this study, novel broadband quasi-2D perovskite (BA)2(FA)n-1PbnI3n+1 hybrid-structure PDs with good stability were fabricated by combining both monolayer graphene and Au square nanoarrays. The hybrid system using both graphene and Au square nanoarrays effectively improved the carrier mobility and light absorption and simultaneously maximized light trapping and light-induced carrier extraction, which resulted in PDs with greatly enhanced photocurrent in the visible and near-infrared range. The graphene-Au array-perovskite-based PDs had a low dark current of 10-10 A, large on/off ratio of 104, high responsivity of 18.71 A W-1, and detectivity of 2.21 × 1013 Jones. The responsivity and detectivity were two orders of magnitude higher than those of PDs based only on perovskites. This work demonstrates a promising and feasible device based on the coupling of a gold array, layered graphene, and quasi-2D perovskites, which shows great potential for the development of high-performance broadband perovskite PDs.
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- Fu Feng
- Nanophotonics Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology & Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Nanophotonics Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology & Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Nanophotonics Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology & Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Nanophotonics Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology & Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Nanophotonics Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology & Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Nanophotonics Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology & Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG72RD, U.K
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Redondo-Obispo C, Serafini P, Climent-Pascual E, Ripolles T, Mora-Seró I, de Andrés A, Coya C. Effect of Pristine Graphene on Methylammonium Lead Iodide Films and Implications on Solar Cell Performance. ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS 2021; 4:13943-13951. [PMID: 34977475 PMCID: PMC8715421 DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.1c02738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/03/2021] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The relatively low stability of solar cells based on hybrid halide perovskites is the main issue to be solved for the implementation in real life of these extraordinary materials. Degradation is accelerated by temperature, moisture, oxygen, and light and mediated by halide easy hopping. The approach here is to incorporate pristine graphene, which is hydrophobic and impermeable to gases and likely limits ionic diffusion while maintaining adequate electronic conductivity. Low concentrations of few-layer graphene platelets (up to 24 × 10-3 wt %) were incorporated to MAPbI3 films for a detailed structural, optical, and transport study whose results are then used to fabricate solar cells with graphene-doped active layers. The lowest graphene content delays the degradation of films with time and light irradiation and leads to enhanced photovoltaic performance and stability of the solar cells, with relative improvement over devices without graphene of 15% in the power conversion efficiency, PCE. A higher graphene content further stabilizes the perovskite films but is detrimental for in-operation devices. A trade-off between the possible sealing effect of the perovskite grains by graphene, that limits ionic diffusion, and the reduction of the crystalline domain size that reduces electronic transport, and, especially, the detected increase of film porosity, that facilitates the access to atmospheric gases, is proposed to be at the origin of the observed trends. This work demonstrated how the synergy between these materials can help to develop cost-effective routes to overcome the stability barrier of metal halide perovskites, introducing active layer design strategies that allow commercialization to take off.
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- C. Redondo-Obispo
- Instituto
de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas, C/Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Institute
of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castelló, Spain
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- Escuela
Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid, C/José
Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Escuela
Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación,
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, 28933 Madrid, Spain
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- Institute
of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castelló, Spain
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- Instituto
de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas, C/Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Escuela
Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación,
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, 28933 Madrid, Spain
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Pan LY, Ding YF, Liu HQ, Cai MQ. High-performance photovoltaic application of the 2D all-inorganic Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite heterostructure Cs 2PbI 2Cl 2/MAPbI 3. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:23703-23710. [PMID: 34642715 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03375a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The three-dimensional (3D) organic-inorganic halide perovskite MAPbI3 has excellent light-harvesting properties but is unstable. However, the newly synthesized two-dimensional (2D) all-inorganic Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) perovskite Cs2PbI2Cl2 has superior stability but adverse photoelectric properties. Therefore, constructing a 2D Cs2PbI2Cl2/3D MAPbI3 heterostructure is expected to combine the superstability of the 2D material and the high efficiency of the 3D one. The photoelectric properties and charge transfer of 2D Cs2PbI2Cl2/3D MAPbI3 heterostructures are investigated using density functional theory, where MAPbI3 has two kinds of contacting interfaces, i.e., MAI and PbI interfaces. The band gaps of 2D/MAI and 2D/PbI heterostructures are 1.52 eV and 1.40 eV, smaller than those of the free-standing materials (2D ∼ 2.50 eV, MAI ∼ 1.77 eV, and PbI ∼ 1.73 eV), which can broaden the light absorption spectrum. Moreover, the 2D/3D heterostructures are typical type-II heterostructures, which is beneficial to facilitate the separation of carriers for increasing the photoelectric conversion. Interestingly, due to the work function difference (2D ∼ 4.97 eV, MAI ∼ 3.57 eV, and PbI ∼ 5.49 eV), the charge transfer directions of the 2D/MAI and 2D/PbI heterostructures are completely opposite, which shows that interface engineering to impose a consistent interface termination is needed to obtain good performance for solar cells. These results demonstrate that constructing 2D Cs2PbI2Cl2 and 3D MAPbI3 heterostructures by interfacial engineering is a potential strategy to improve the performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs).
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- Ling-Yu Pan
- Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Optoelectronic Devices of Ministry of Education & Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Structural Physics and Devices, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Optoelectronic Devices of Ministry of Education & Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Structural Physics and Devices, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Optoelectronic Devices of Ministry of Education & Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Structural Physics and Devices, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Optoelectronic Devices of Ministry of Education & Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Structural Physics and Devices, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
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Tareen AK, Khan K, Aslam M, Liu X, Zhang H. Confinement in two-dimensional materials: Major advances and challenges in the emerging renewable energy conversion and other applications. PROG SOLID STATE CH 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2020.100294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Plasmonic Metasensors Based on 2D Hybrid Atomically Thin Perovskite Nanomaterials. NANOMATERIALS 2020; 10:nano10071289. [PMID: 32629982 PMCID: PMC7407500 DOI: 10.3390/nano10071289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Revised: 06/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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In this work, we have designed highly sensitive plasmonic metasensors based on atomically thin perovskite nanomaterials with a detection limit up to 10−10 refractive index units (RIU) for the target sample solutions. More importantly, we have improved phase singularity detection with the Goos–Hänchen (GH) effect. The GH shift is known to be closely related to optical phase signal changes; it is much more sensitive and sharp than the phase signal in the plasmonic condition, while the experimental measurement setup is much more compact than that of the commonly used interferometer scheme to exact the phase signals. Here, we have demonstrated that plasmonic sensitivity can reach a record-high value of 1.2862 × 109 µm/RIU with the optimum configurations for the plasmonic metasensors. The phase singularity-induced GH shift is more than three orders of magnitude larger than those achievable in other metamaterial schemes, including Ag/TiO2 hyperbolic multilayer metamaterials (HMMs), metal–insulator–metal (MIM) multilayer waveguides with plasmon-induced transparency (PIT), and metasurface devices with a large phase gradient. GH sensitivity has been improved by more than 106 times with the atomically thin perovskite metasurfaces (1.2862 × 109 µm/RIU) than those without (918.9167 µm/RIU). The atomically thin perovskite nanomaterials with high absorption rates enable precise tuning of the depth of the plasmonic resonance dip. As such, one can optimize the structure to reach near zero-reflection at the resonance angle and the associated sharp phase singularity, which leads to a strongly enhanced GH lateral shift at the sensor interface. By integrating the 2D perovskite nanolayer into a metasurface structure, a strong localized electric field enhancement can be realized and GH sensitivity was further improved to 1.5458 × 109 µm/RIU. We believe that this enhanced electric field together with the significantly improved GH shift would enable single molecular or even submolecular detection for hard-to-identify chemical and biological markers, including single nucleotide mismatch in the DNA sequence, toxic heavy metal ions, and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα).
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Khan K, Tareen AK, Aslam M, Mahmood A, khan Q, Zhang Y, Ouyang Z, Guo Z, Zhang H. Going green with batteries and supercapacitor: Two dimensional materials and their nanocomposites based energy storage applications. PROG SOLID STATE CH 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2019.100254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Liu J, Chen K, Khan SA, Shabbir B, Zhang Y, Khan Q, Bao Q. Synthesis and optical applications of low dimensional metal-halide perovskites. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2020; 31:152002. [PMID: 31751979 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab5a19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Metal halide perovskites have received substantial attention in research communities due to their outstanding efficiency achievements in the field of photovoltaics, optoelectronics and electronics, exhibiting extraordinary optical, electrical and mechanical properties. The exceptional structural tunability enables perovskite material to possess low-dimensional form at the atomic level and extends their applications into optoelectronic and photonic fields. This review discusses the recent progress of synthetic routes and fundamental optoelectronic properties of low-dimensional metal halide perovskites. In addition, the focus is to highlight the potential applications of perovskites in various devices including solar cells, light-emitting diodes, lasers, waveguides and memory devices. Finally, outlooks and the challenges that face the development of the perovskite materials in the near future are also presented.
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- Jingying Liu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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Band structure engineering in metal halide perovskite nanostructures for optoelectronic applications. NANO MATERIALS SCIENCE 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoms.2019.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Khan K, Tareen AK, Aslam M, Zhang Y, Wang R, Ouyang Z, Gou Z, Zhang H. Recent advances in two-dimensional materials and their nanocomposites in sustainable energy conversion applications. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:21622-21678. [PMID: 31702753 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr05919a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Two-dimensional (2D) materials have a wide platform in research and expanding nano- and atomic-level applications. This study is motivated by the well-established 2D catalysts, which demonstrate high efficiency, selectivity and sustainability exceeding that of classical noble metal catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and/or hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Nowadays, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in water electrolysis is crucial for the cost-efficient production of a pure hydrogen fuel. We will also discuss another important point related to electrochemical carbon dioxide and nitrogen reduction (ECR and N2RR) in detail. In this review, we mainly focused on the recent progress in the fuel cell technology based on 2D materials, including graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, MXenes, metal-organic frameworks, and metal oxide nanosheets. First, the basic attributes of the 2D materials were described, and their fuel cell mechanisms were also summarized. Finally, some effective methods for enhancing the performance of the fuel cells based on 2D materials were also discussed, and the opportunities and challenges of 2D material-based fuel cells at the commercial level were also provided. This review can provide new avenues for 2D materials with properties suitable for fuel cell technology development and related fields.
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- Karim Khan
- Advanced electromagnetic function laboratory, Dongguan University of Technology (DGUT), Dongguan, Guangdong Province, P.R. China.
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Khan Q, Subramanian A, Yu G, Maaz K, Li D, Sagar RUR, Chen K, Lei W, Shabbir B, Zhang Y. Structure optimization of perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:5021-5029. [PMID: 30839976 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr09864f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
Abstract
Although all-inorganic perovskite light emitting diodes (PeLED) have satisfactory stability under an ambient atmosphere, producing devices with high performance is challenging. A device architecture with a reduced energy barrier between adjacent layers and optimized energy level alignment in the PeLED is critical to achieve high electroluminescence efficiency. In this study, we report the optimization of a CsPbBr3-based PeLED device structure with Li-doped TiO2 nanoparticles as the electron transport layer (ETL). Optimal Li doping balances charge carrier injection between the hole transport layer (HTL) and ETL, leading to superior performance in both devices. The turn-on voltages for devices with Li-doped TiO2 nanoparticles were significantly reduced from 7.7 V to 4.9 V and from 3 V to 2 V in the direct and inverted PeLED structures, respectively. The low turn-on voltage for green emission is one of the lowest values among the reported CsPbBr3-based PeLEDs. Further investigations show that the device with an inverted structure is superior to the device with a direct structure because the energy barrier for carrier injection was minimized. The inverted structure devices exhibited a current efficiency of 5.6 cd A-1 for the pristine TiO2 ETL, while it was 15.2 cd A-1 for the Li-doped TiO2 ETL, a factor of ∼2.7 enhancement at 5000 cd m-2.
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Affiliation(s)
- Qasim Khan
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Flexible Memory Materials and Devices, College of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518000, China.
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