Issue 34, 2022

Reliably obtaining white light from layered halide perovskites at room temperature

Abstract

The recent observation of broadband white-light emission from the inorganic sheets of certain layered lead-bromide perovskites has instigated a multitude of studies on this unusual phenomenon. However, the vast majority of layered bromide perovskites have flat (001) inorganic sheets and display a narrow photoluminescence at room temperature. A handful of heavily distorted (001) perovskites display broad emission, but to date, there is no method of predicting which perovskites will produce white light at room temperature prior to screening different organic molecules that can template 2D perovskites and crystallizing and analyzing the material. By studying ten Pb–Cl perovskites, we find that they all exhibit a broad yellow emission, which is strikingly invariant despite different distortions in the inorganic framework seen across the series. We postulate that this broad emission is intrinsic to all layered Pb–Cl perovskites. Although broad, the emission is not white. By adding Br to the Pb–Cl perovskites we obtain both the narrow emission and the broad emission such that the combined emission color smoothly varies from yellow to warm white to cold white as a function of the halide ratio. Thus, alloying Br to Pb–Cl perovskites appears to be a simple and general strategy for reliably obtaining white light at room temperature from (001) perovskites, regardless of the templating effects of the organic molecules, which should greatly expand the number of white-light-emitting layered perovskites.

Graphical abstract: Reliably obtaining white light from layered halide perovskites at room temperature

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
28 4 2022
Accepted
31 7 2022
First published
01 8 2022
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2022,13, 9973-9979

Reliably obtaining white light from layered halide perovskites at room temperature

E. J. Crace, A. C. Su and H. I. Karunadasa, Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 9973 DOI: 10.1039/D2SC02381D

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