High-Performance Photocoupler Based on Perovskite Light Emitting Diode and Photodetector

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2018 Nov 21;10(46):39441-39447. doi: 10.1021/acsami.8b15213. Epub 2018 Nov 8.

Abstract

Photocoupler is a kind of semiconductor optoelectronic device that integrates light-emitting device (LED) and photodetector. It has found wide application in various fields because of its capability to transmit the electrical signal through the conversion of the electricity-light-electricity. Herein, we report the fabrication of a new photocoupler by simply integrating perovskite quantum dots LED and perovskite photodetector on a glass substrate. The as-fabricated photocoupler showed outstanding characteristics with high current transfer ratio (CTR) of 3.35%, which is highly competitive in comparison with other materials based devices. Furthermore, the perovskite photocoupler had a fast response speed of 8 μs/8.26 μs. By further adding an amplification circuit, the CTR could be enhanced by around 50 times to 172.6%. These results indicate that the present perovskite-based photocouplers may find potential application in future integrated circuit and optoelectronic system.

Keywords: current transmission ratio; light-emitting diode; optoelectronic devices; perovskite; photodetector.