Morphological regulation of all-inorganic perovskites for multilevel resistive switching

Abstract

Enormous attention has been paid to all-inorganic cesium lead halide perovskites in various photoelectronic fields for their remarkable performances. However, comparing to their analogue organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites, the film morphology of such all-inorganic lead halide perovskites is difficult to control due to the low solubility of cesium salt. Here, we propose a new fabrication routine to control the film morphology of CsPbBr3. A series of CsPbBr3 thin films with big grains (≈800 nm) were successfully prepared. The memristors based on such CsPbBr3 thin films take on typical bipolar resistive switching behavior and remarkable characteristics such as high Ron/Roff ratio (≈105), very low working voltage (≈±1 V), and long data retention (≥104 s). Furthermore, through modulating the film morphology, memristors with multilevel resistive switching behavior can be easily prepared. These advantages demonstrate that the all-inorganic cesium lead halide memristors possess great potential for future application.