A generic lanthanum doping strategy enabling efficient lead halide perovskite luminescence for backlights

Abstract

Metal halide perovskites films have attracted great interest because of their solution-proceed fabrication and potential applications for next-generation displays. However, their non-ideal photoluminescence quantum efficiency (PLQE) and stability still does not meet the requirements of displays. Here, we adopt lanthanum ion (La3+) doping strategy to enhance its luminescence performance and the possibility of taking it to commercialization. In addition to the entry of lanthanum ions into the lattice to greatly improve the crystal quality, the excess La3+ gives rise to the formation of newly developed formamidinium cesium lanthanum bromine, (FA, Cs)2LaBr5, which provides additional energy transport pathways, therefore concentrating more energy onto the perovskite host. Consequently, a near-unity PLQE of 99.5% is realized in standardized green-emission cesium (Cs)/formamidinium (FA) mixed FA0.7Cs0.3PbBr3 perovskite films. The introduction of La3+ can also lead to markedly stability with nearly 1000 days’ shelf storage half-lifetime and 400 hours’ light-irradiation T90 lifetime as well as much-enhanced color purity. Moreover, the films with La3+ doping enable full-visible spectral enhancement and high-performance white light emission and trichromatic luminescence with 98.9% coverage of the color gamut area required for the Rec. 2020 standard, which suggest that perovskite films have great application potential for backlights in liquid crystal display technologies.