2D Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites have attracted wide attention recently because of tunable optoelectronic properties and have been used as alternatives to their 3D counterparts in various optoelectronic devices. Here, a series of (PEA)2(MA) n -1Pb n I3 n +1 perovskite thin films is designed and fabricated by a convenient hot-casting method to obtain gradient n in the films, which leads to the formation of vertical heterojunctions that can enhance charge separation in the films under light illumination. Based on a single gradient perovskite film, a highly sensitive and stable photodetector with a responsivity up to 149 AW-1 and a specific detectivity of 2 × 1012 Jones is obtained. This work paves a way to realizing high-performance optoelectronic devices with enhanced charge separation by introducing compositional gradient in a perovskite film.
Keywords: 2D perovskites; hot‐casting; perovskites; photodetectors; vertical heterojunctions.
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