Poor stability of CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) to moisture/heat/light has significantly limited their application as a green phosphor, despite their outstanding luminescent properties. Here, a remarkably stable CsPbBr3 NCs-silica composite phosphor functionalized with surface phenyl molecules (CsPbBr3 -SiO2 Ph ) is synthesized by controlling low-temperature hydrolysis and condensation reaction of perhydropolysilazane in the presence of CsPbBr3 NCs followed by phenyl-functionalization. Through the process, CsPbBr3 NCs are confined in a compact silica matrix, which is impermeable to H2 O. The synthesis strategy is extended to a classical red quantum dot, CdZnSeS@ZnS NCs, to fabricate a white light emitting diode (WLED) consisting of CsPbBr3 -SiO2 Ph and CdZnSeS@ZnS-SiO2 Ph phosphor and silicone resin packaged on a commercial blue InGaN chip with luminous efficacy (LE) of 9.36 lm W-1 . The WLED undergoes enhancements in both green and red photoluminescence over time to achieve a highly efficient performance of 38.80 lm W-1 . More importantly, the WLED exhibits unprecedented operational stability of LE/LE0 = 94% after 101 h-operation at 20 mA (2.56 V). The ultra-high operational stability and efficient performance are mainly attributed to thermal curing and aging through which grain growth occurs as well as deactivation of defect states by permeated atmospheric O2 .
Keywords: aging; compact silica; enhanced photoluminescence; operational stability; thermal curing.
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