Pink all-inorganic halide perovskite nanocrystals with adjustable characteristics: Fully reversible cation exchange, improving the stability of dopant emission and light-emitting diode application

Abstract

In this work, we proposed a straightforward and effective strategy for preparing pink all-inorganic halide perovskite nanocrystal (NC) phosphors for light-emitting diode (LED) application. The pink perovskite NCs with varying Mn contents could be easily and steadily obtained via postsynthetic ion exchange at room temperature. The dependence of the size and optical properties of pink NCs on dopant content was systematically investigated. The reversible anion exchange processes of pink perovskite NCs were conducted with halide salts containing or excluding Pb. The contrasting results suggested that the irreversibility of Mn-emission was mainly affected by the fully reversible cation exchange between Pb2+ and Mn2+. The pink NCs with better stability of dopant emission and high monodispersity were successfully developed by compounding with silica. A pink LED was further made by using the pink NCs/silica composites as pink phosphors on a 395 nm InGaN LED chip. This work provides a feasible strategy for the fabrication of pink LEDs, which may have great application prospects in the field of special lighting, like neon lights and plant growth lights.