Zero-dimensional Hybrid Antimony Halide with Intrinsic Cyan Light Emission

Abstract

Recently, zero-dimensional (0D) hybrid metal halides have attracted intensive attention with wide applications in solid-state lighting and display diodes. Herein, by using a facile wet-chemistry method, we prepared one new 0D hybrid antimony halide of [HMHQ]₂ SbCl₅ ⋅ 2H₂ O (MHQ=2-methyl-8-hydroxyquinoline) based on the discrete [SbCl₅ ]^2- unit. Remarkably, the bulk crystals of [HMHQ]₂ SbCl₅ ⋅ 2H₂ O exhibit strong cyan light emission with a promising photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of 18.92%. Systematical studies disclose that the cyan emission is mainly derived from the radiative recombination within conjugated organic cation. Benefiting from the promising luminescent performance, this 0D antimony halide can be utilized as an excellent down-conversion light emitting luminescent material to assemble white light-emitting diodes with high color rendering index (CRI) of 90.2.

Keywords: Sb-based perovskites; cyan-light emission; white light-emitting diodes; zero-dimensional.