Minimising efficiency roll-off in high-brightness perovskite light-emitting diodes

Wei Zou, Renzhi Li, Shuting Zhang, Yunlong Liu, Nana Wang, Yu Cao, Yanfeng Miao, Mengmeng Xu, Qiang Guo, Dawei Di, Li Zhang, Chang Yi, Feng Gao, Richard H. Friend, Jianpu Wang, Wei Huang

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Abstract

Efficiency roll-off is a major issue for most types of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and its origins remain controversial. Here we present investigations of the efficiency roll-off in perovskite LEDs based on two-dimensional layered perovskites. By simultaneously measuring electroluminescence and photoluminescence on a working device, supported by transient photoluminescence decay measurements, we conclude that the efficiency roll-off in perovskite LEDs is mainly due to luminescence quenching which is likely caused by non-radiative Auger recombination. This detrimental effect can be suppressed by increasing the width of quantum wells, which can be easily realized in the layered perovskites by tuning the ratio of large and small organic cations in the precursor solution. This approach leads to the realization of a perovskite LED with a record external quantum efficiency of 12.7%, and the efficiency remains to be high, at approximately 10%, under a high current density of 500 mA cm−2.

Original languageEnglish
Article number608
JournalNature Communications
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2018

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