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Title: Lead-free Cesium Europium Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

Abstract

Because of the toxicity of lead, searching for a lead-free halide perovskite semiconducting material with comparable optical and electronic properties is of great interest. Rare-earth-based halide perovskite represents a promising class of materials for this purpose. In this work, we demonstrate the solution-phase synthesis of single-crystalline CsEuCl3 nanocrystals with a uniform size distribution centered around 15 nm. The CsEuCl3 nanocrystals have photoluminescence emission centered at 435 nm, with a full width at half-maximum of 19 nm. Furthermore, CsEuCl3 nanocrystals can be embedded in a polymer matrix that provides enhanced stability under continuous laser irradiation. Lead-free rare-earth cesium europium halide perovskite nanocrystals represent a promising candidate to replace lead halide perovskites.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [5];  [3];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6]
  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); California Research Alliance (CARA) by BASF, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  4. BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Germany)
  5. California Research Alliance (CARA) by BASF, Berkeley, CA (United States); BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Germany)
  6. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Kavli Energy NanoScience Inst., Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1841155
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nano Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 20; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; rare earth; nanocrystals; blue emission; lead-free halide perovskites; crystals; physical and chemical processes; transmission electron microscopy; perovskites

Citation Formats

Huang, Jianmei, Lei, Teng, Siron, Martin, Zhang, Ye, Yu, Sunmoon, Seeler, Fabian, Dehestani, Ahmad, Quan, Li Na, Schierle-Arndt, Kerstin, and Yang, Peidong. Lead-free Cesium Europium Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00692.
Huang, Jianmei, Lei, Teng, Siron, Martin, Zhang, Ye, Yu, Sunmoon, Seeler, Fabian, Dehestani, Ahmad, Quan, Li Na, Schierle-Arndt, Kerstin, & Yang, Peidong. Lead-free Cesium Europium Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00692
Huang, Jianmei, Lei, Teng, Siron, Martin, Zhang, Ye, Yu, Sunmoon, Seeler, Fabian, Dehestani, Ahmad, Quan, Li Na, Schierle-Arndt, Kerstin, and Yang, Peidong. Wed . "Lead-free Cesium Europium Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00692. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1841155.
@article{osti_1841155,
title = {Lead-free Cesium Europium Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals},
author = {Huang, Jianmei and Lei, Teng and Siron, Martin and Zhang, Ye and Yu, Sunmoon and Seeler, Fabian and Dehestani, Ahmad and Quan, Li Na and Schierle-Arndt, Kerstin and Yang, Peidong},
abstractNote = {Because of the toxicity of lead, searching for a lead-free halide perovskite semiconducting material with comparable optical and electronic properties is of great interest. Rare-earth-based halide perovskite represents a promising class of materials for this purpose. In this work, we demonstrate the solution-phase synthesis of single-crystalline CsEuCl3 nanocrystals with a uniform size distribution centered around 15 nm. The CsEuCl3 nanocrystals have photoluminescence emission centered at 435 nm, with a full width at half-maximum of 19 nm. Furthermore, CsEuCl3 nanocrystals can be embedded in a polymer matrix that provides enhanced stability under continuous laser irradiation. Lead-free rare-earth cesium europium halide perovskite nanocrystals represent a promising candidate to replace lead halide perovskites.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00692},
journal = {Nano Letters},
number = 5,
volume = 20,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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