Issue 30, 2017

Rapid, stable and self-powered perovskite detectors via a fast chemical vapor deposition process

Abstract

Organometal halide perovskite materials are outstanding candidates not only for solar cells but also for photo-detection. In this work, we develop a well-controlled lower temperature (<120 °C) and fast chemical vapor deposition process (LFCVD) to fabricate photovoltaic detectors with a high speed response (τrise/τfall ∼ 460 ns/940 ns) and a 3 dB-bandwidth above 0.9 MHz, which are the highest among those with a large active area (>0.1 cm2) without external power supply. Remarkably, the perovskite photovoltaic detectors demonstrate an excellent air-exposure stability for more than two months without particular encapsulation. These excellent performances are attributed to a well-controlled expansive gas–solid reaction and formation of perovskite crystallites that collide and pinch off the pinhole leakage paths at the grain boundaries. More importantly, the accumulated strain at the colliding grain boundaries leads to a selective evaporation of MAI during post-growth annealing, and thus passivate the local defects by the remnant PbI2 layer. These results highlight the potential of LFCVD perovskite materials in developing ultra-fast and self-driven photovoltaic detectors with outstanding stability and scalability.

Graphical abstract: Rapid, stable and self-powered perovskite detectors via a fast chemical vapor deposition process

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 2月 2017
Accepted
21 3月 2017
First published
27 3月 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2017,7, 18224-18230

Rapid, stable and self-powered perovskite detectors via a fast chemical vapor deposition process

G. Tong, X. Geng, Y. Yu, L. Yu, J. Xu, Y. Jiang, Y. Sheng, Y. Shi and K. Chen, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 18224 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA01430A

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