Mass Transfer Printing of Metal-Halide Perovskite Films and Nanostructures

Zhijian Li; Shenglong Chu; Yihan Zhang; Wenjing Chen; Jia Chen; Yongbo Yuan; Shangfeng Yang; Hongmin Zhou; Tao Chen; Zhengguo Xiao

doi:10.1002/adma.202203529

Mass Transfer Printing of Metal-Halide Perovskite Films and Nanostructures

Adv Mater. 2022 Sep;34(35):e2203529. doi: 10.1002/adma.202203529. Epub 2022 Jul 30.

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Affiliations

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.
² Hunan Key Laboratory of Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process, School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410083, China.
³ CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.
⁴ Instruments Center for Physical Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.
⁵ CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, China.

PMID: 35908154
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202203529

Abstract

Most methods of depositing perovskite films cannot meet the diverse requirements of real applications such as depositing films on various types of substrates, making patterns with different bandgaps for full-color display. Here, a robust mass transfer method of perovskite films and nanostructures is reported, meeting those requirements, by using an ultrathin branched polyethylenimine as interfacial chemical bonding layers. The transfer-printed perovskite films exhibit comparable morphology, composition, optoelectronic properties, and device performances with the counterparts made by optimized spin-coating methods. The perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) using the transfer-printed films show decent external quantum efficiencies of 10.5% and 6.7% for red (680 nm) and sky-blue (493 nm) emissions, which are similar to the devices made by spin-coating. This robust transfer printing method also enables the the preparation of perovskite micropatterns with a high resolution up to 1270 pixels per inch. Horizontally aligned red and sky-blue perovskite microstripes are further obtained through multiple printing processes for white PeLEDs. This work demonstrates a feasible strategy for making perovskite films or micropatterns on various substrates for real applications in full-color display, white LEDs, lasing, etc.

Keywords: branched polyethyleneimine; large-area nanostructures; mass transfer printing; metal-halide perovskites; white perovskite light-emitting diodes.

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