Issue 7, 2024

All-inorganic copper-halide perovskites for large-Stokes shift and ten-nanosecond-emission scintillators

Abstract

The recent surge of interest in low-dimensional lead-free copper halide perovskites (CHPs) has driven significant progress in optoelectronics and scintillating materials. However, the development of green-based synthetic routes for CHPs, aimed at creating fast-decaying scintillators with ultrasensitive X-ray detection, remains elusive. In this study, we utilize a mechanochemical method to obtain 1D CHP (CsCu2I3) and 0D CHPs (Cs3Cu2X5 (X = I, Br)) focusing on the mixing of I and Br anions with different molar ratios (I : Br = 4 : 1 and 3 : 2). CsCu2I3 and Cs3Cu2I5 exhibit a substantial large Stokes shift (SS) of 1.75 ± 0.02 eV and 1.57 ± 0.05 eV with the former displaying the absence of afterglow, whereas the latter has a deep trap of ∼500 meV, complicating the scintillation mechanism and resulting in a slower decay component. The CsCu2I3 scintillation decay time is primarily characterized by a fast component (τ1) of 9.30 ± 0.01 ns, accounting for contribution (C1) of 43% from the total emission. This fast decay component of ∼10 ns has not been previously reported in the family of CHPs. Similarly, τ1 of 10.9 ± 0.6 ns is obtained in Cs3Cu2I5, but when compared to its counterpart, C1 is only 3%. Upon increasing the Br substitution in Cs3Cu2I5, we observe that the traps become shallower, with energies ranging from 208 ± 21 to 121 ± 18 meV, along with an appreciable trap concentration of ∼104. The C1 of τ1 also increases with higher Br concentration, reaching a maximum value of 29%. Unfortunately, this increased contribution in decay times is accompanied by a decrease in light yields (Cs3Cu2I5 has 16.5 ph per keV at room temperature (RT)) as thermal quenching processes predominate throughout the entire series of CHPs at RT. Our work provides valuable insights into the tunable structure–property relationship through the I : Br composition ratio of CHPs, hence advancing scintillation performance by rational design towards timing applications.

Graphical abstract: All-inorganic copper-halide perovskites for large-Stokes shift and ten-nanosecond-emission scintillators

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 okt 2023
Accepted
08 jan 2024
First published
12 jan 2024

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024,12, 2398-2409

All-inorganic copper-halide perovskites for large-Stokes shift and ten-nanosecond-emission scintillators

T. Haposan, A. Arramel, P. Y. D. Maulida, S. Hartati, A. A. Afkauni, M. H. Mahyuddin, L. Zhang, D. Kowal, M. E. Witkowski, K. J. Drozdowski, M. Makowski, W. Drozdowski, L. J. Diguna and M. D. Birowosuto, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12, 2398 DOI: 10.1039/D3TC03977C

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