Issue 5, 2022

Air-grown hybrid copper(i) halide single crystals: structural transformations and ultraviolet-pumped photoluminescence applications

Abstract

Lead-free copper-based halide hybrid materials have emerged as a class of potential candidates for next-generation optoelectronic devices. In this work, we demonstrated that Gua4Cu4Br8 and Gua3Cu2I5 (Gua = CH6N3+) single crystals have been successfully grown by slow evaporation methods in an ambient atmosphere. Interestingly, non-centrosymmetric Gua6Cu4I10 single crystals were formed on the basis of Gua3Cu2I5 induced by chiral (R)- and (S)-methylbenzylamine (MBA) cations. In particular, Gua3Cu2I5 exhibited a large Stokes shift of about 200 nm with a long PL lifetime of about 3835 ns and an absolute PLQY of about 72.04% at room temperature. More importantly, ultraviolet (UV)-pumped light-emitting diodes based on Gua3Cu2I5 single crystals exhibited strong photoluminescence characteristics at an emission peaking position of about 575 nm with high luminance. The above characteristics should provide guidance for further applications of lead-free hybrid single-crystalline optoelectronic devices.

Graphical abstract: Air-grown hybrid copper(i) halide single crystals: structural transformations and ultraviolet-pumped photoluminescence applications

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Nov 2021
Accepted
24 Jan 2022
First published
25 Jan 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Mater. Adv., 2022,3, 2447-2455

Air-grown hybrid copper(I) halide single crystals: structural transformations and ultraviolet-pumped photoluminescence applications

Z. Song, B. Yu, L. Meng, G. Liu and Y. Dang, Mater. Adv., 2022, 3, 2447 DOI: 10.1039/D1MA01055G

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