A‐site Cation Engineering for Highly Efficient MAPbI₃ Single‐Crystal X‐ray Detector.

Huang, Yanmin; Qiao, Lu; Jiang, Yuanzhi; He, Tingwei; Long, Run; Yang, Fan; Wang, Lin; Lei, Xiaojuan; Yuan, Mingjian; Chen, Jun

Metal halide perovskites have emerged as a new generation of X‐ray detector materials. However, large‐sized MAPbI3 single crystals (SCs) still exhibit lower performance than MAPbBr3 SCs in X‐ray detection. DFT (density functional theory) simulations suggest the problem could be overcome by alloying large‐sized cations at the A site. The alloyed process could notably decrease the electron–phonon coupling strength and increase the material defect formation energy. Accordingly, centimeter‐sized alloyed DMAMAPbI3 (DMA=dimethylammonium) and GAMAPbI3 (GA=guanidinium) SCs are obtained. Electrical characterizations confirm the GAMAPbI3 SCs display improved charge collection efficiency. It also exhibits a remarkable reduction of dark current, an important figure of merit for X‐ray detectors. With a judiciously designed device architecture, the overall detector performance confirms GAMAPbI3 SCs as one of the most sensitive perovskite X‐ray detectors to date.

DETECTORS; X-rays; X-ray detection; DENSITY functional theory; METAL halides

Angewandte Chemie, 2019, Vol 131, Issue 49, p17998

0044-8249

Academic Journal

10.1002/ange.201911281