Recent progress and future prospects on halide perovskite nanocrystals for optoelectronics and beyond

Yuncheng Mu; Ziyu He; Kun Wang; Xiaodong Pi; Shu Zhou

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105371

Recent progress and future prospects on halide perovskite nanocrystals for optoelectronics and beyond

iScience. 2022 Oct 17;25(11):105371. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105371. eCollection 2022 Nov 18.

Authors

Yuncheng Mu¹, Ziyu He², Kun Wang³, Xiaodong Pi^{3

4}, Shu Zhou¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Materials, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518107, China.
² Department of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK.
³ State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
⁴ Institute of Advanced Semiconductors and Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Power Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Hangzhou Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311215, China.

Abstract

As an emerging new class of semiconductor nanomaterials, halide perovskite (ABX₃, X = Cl, Br, or I) nanocrystals (NCs) are attracting increasing attention owing to their great potential in optoelectronics and beyond. This field has experienced rapid breakthroughs over the past few years. In this comprehensive review, halide perovskite NCs that are either freestanding or embedded in a matrix (e.g., perovskites, metal-organic frameworks, glass) will be discussed. We will summarize recent progress on the synthesis and post-synthesis methods of halide perovskite NCs. Characterizations of halide perovskite NCs by using a variety of techniques will be present. Tremendous efforts to tailor the optical and electronic properties of halide perovskite NCs in terms of manipulating their size, surface, and component will be highlighted. Physical insights gained on the unique optical and charge-carrier transport properties will be provided. Importantly, the growing potential of halide perovskite NCs for advancing optoelectronic applications and beyond including light-emitting devices (LEDs), solar cells, scintillators and X-ray imaging, lasers, thin-film transistors (TFTs), artificial synapses, and light communication will be extensively discussed, along with prospecting their development in the future.

Keywords: Nanomaterials; Nanotechnology; Physical optics.

Publication types

Review