B(I)-Site Alkali Metal Engineering of Lead-Free Perovskite Nanocrystals for Efficient X-Ray Detection and Imaging
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Lead-free metal halide double perovskites have emerged as promising scintillators owing to their superior optoelectronic properties, low-cost and solution processability. However, it is still challenging to develop high-performance flexible X-ray scintillators based on the B(I)-site alkali metal modulation in lead-free double perovskite nanocrystals (NCs). Herein, a series of novel Cs2B(I)GdCl6 (B: Li, Na, K) of double perovskite A2B(I)M(III)X6 NCs structures are successfully synthesized, the optical and scintillator properties of which are significantly sensitive to the B(I)-site alkali metals with the doping of Sb3+. They showed efficient self-trapped exciton (STE) emission with high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and exhibited the highest X-ray detection limit (86 nGyair s−1) and excellent spatial resolutions (>15 lp mm−1). The femtosecond transient absorption measurement and theoretical analysis further revealed that the B(I)-site alkali metal fundamentally balanced the exciton–phonon coupling with appropriate STEs formation energy barrier and the electron localization and thus improved the optical and scintillator properties. This B(I)-site alkali metal engineering offers a strategy to develop bright luminescent double perovskite NCs for X-ray detection and imaging devices.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2302617 |
Journal | Advanced Optical Materials |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 12 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISSN | 2195-1071 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province of China, the Scientific Research Starting Foundation of Outstanding Young Scholar of Shandong University, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 22103050) and the Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics in DICP, CAS, Program of Young Scholars Future Program of Shandong University, Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF22OC0073582).
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- alkali metal, flexible scintillator, lead-free perovskite, nanocrystals, X-ray detection
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