Nucleation-controlled growth of superior lead-free perovskite Cs3Bi2I9 single-crystals for high-performance X-ray detection
Abstract
The organic-inorganic hybrid lead halide perovskites have emerged as a series of star materials for solar cells, lasers and detectors. However, the issues raised by the toxic lead element and marginal stability due to the volatile organic components have severely limited their potential applications. In this work, we develop a nucleation-controlled solution method to grow large size high-quality Cs3Bi2I9 perovskite single crystals (PSCs). Using the technique, we harvest some centimeter-sized single crystals and achieved high device performance. We find that X-ray detectors based on PSCs exhibit high sensitivity of 1652.3 μC Gyair-1 cm-2and very low detectable dose rate of 130 nGyair s-1, both desired in medical diagnostics. In addition, its outstanding thermal stability inspires us to develop a high temperature X-ray detector with stable response at up to 100 °C. Furthermore, PSCs exhibit high X-ray imaging capability thanks to its negligible signal drifting and extremely high stability.
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- Shaanx Normal Univ., Xi'an (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering. Inst. for Advanced Energy Materials. Shaanxi Engineering Lab for Advanced Energy Technology. Shaanxi Key Lab. for Advanced Energy Devices. Ministry of Education. Lab. of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dalian (China). Dalian Inst. of Chemical Physics. iChEM. Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
- Shaanx Normal Univ., Xi'an (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering. Inst. for Advanced Energy Materials. Shaanxi Engineering Lab for Advanced Energy Technology. Shaanxi Key Lab. for Advanced Energy Devices. Ministry of Education. Lab. of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry; Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
- Shaanx Normal Univ., Xi'an (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering. Inst. for Advanced Energy Materials. Shaanxi Engineering Lab for Advanced Energy Technology. Shaanxi Key Lab. for Advanced Energy Devices. Ministry of Education. Lab. of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry
- Xi'an Jiaotong Univ., Shaanxi (China). International Center for Dielectric Research. Key Lab. of the Ministry of Education. Electronic Materials Research Lab.
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
- Shaanx Normal Univ., Xi'an (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering. Inst. for Advanced Energy Materials. Shaanxi Engineering Lab for Advanced Energy Technology. Shaanxi Key Lab. for Advanced Energy Devices. Ministry of Education. Lab. of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dalian (China). Dalian Inst. of Chemical Physics. iChEM. Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
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- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1802375
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012541
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Science & Technology - Other Topics
Citation Formats
Zhang, Yunxia, Liu, Yucheng, Xu, Zhuo, Ye, Haochen, Yang, Zhou, You, Jiaxue, Liu, Ming, He, Yihui, Kanatzidis, Mercouri G., and Liu, Shengzhong. Nucleation-controlled growth of superior lead-free perovskite Cs3Bi2I9 single-crystals for high-performance X-ray detection. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16034-w.
Zhang, Yunxia, Liu, Yucheng, Xu, Zhuo, Ye, Haochen, Yang, Zhou, You, Jiaxue, Liu, Ming, He, Yihui, Kanatzidis, Mercouri G., & Liu, Shengzhong. Nucleation-controlled growth of superior lead-free perovskite Cs3Bi2I9 single-crystals for high-performance X-ray detection. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16034-w
Zhang, Yunxia, Liu, Yucheng, Xu, Zhuo, Ye, Haochen, Yang, Zhou, You, Jiaxue, Liu, Ming, He, Yihui, Kanatzidis, Mercouri G., and Liu, Shengzhong. Fri .
"Nucleation-controlled growth of superior lead-free perovskite Cs3Bi2I9 single-crystals for high-performance X-ray detection". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16034-w. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1802375.
@article{osti_1802375,
title = {Nucleation-controlled growth of superior lead-free perovskite Cs3Bi2I9 single-crystals for high-performance X-ray detection},
author = {Zhang, Yunxia and Liu, Yucheng and Xu, Zhuo and Ye, Haochen and Yang, Zhou and You, Jiaxue and Liu, Ming and He, Yihui and Kanatzidis, Mercouri G. and Liu, Shengzhong},
abstractNote = {The organic-inorganic hybrid lead halide perovskites have emerged as a series of star materials for solar cells, lasers and detectors. However, the issues raised by the toxic lead element and marginal stability due to the volatile organic components have severely limited their potential applications. In this work, we develop a nucleation-controlled solution method to grow large size high-quality Cs3Bi2I9 perovskite single crystals (PSCs). Using the technique, we harvest some centimeter-sized single crystals and achieved high device performance. We find that X-ray detectors based on PSCs exhibit high sensitivity of 1652.3 μC Gyair-1 cm-2and very low detectable dose rate of 130 nGyair s-1, both desired in medical diagnostics. In addition, its outstanding thermal stability inspires us to develop a high temperature X-ray detector with stable response at up to 100 °C. Furthermore, PSCs exhibit high X-ray imaging capability thanks to its negligible signal drifting and extremely high stability.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-16034-w},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Fri May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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