Issue 12, 2021

Improved performance of perovskite light-emitting diodes with a NaCl doped PEDOT:PSS hole transport layer

Abstract

We demonstrate a simple and effective way to enhance the performance of perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) by utilizing an alkali halide doped PEDOT:PSS as the hole transport layer (HTL). The alkali halide (NaCl) doping helped the growth of the quasi-2D perovskite phases on top of the PEDOT:PSS, it also significantly reduced the exciton quenching in PEDOT:PSS based PeLEDs. More importantly, the doping reduced the work function of the PEDOT:PSS surface, which appropriately modulated the hole injection leading to improved charge balance. This helps to control the recombination zone inside the thin perovskite emitting layer (∼10 nm). The optimized blue-green PeLEDs with the NaCl doped PEDOT:PSS HTL showed a maximum luminance of 1487 cd m−2, current efficiency of 2.16 cd A−1 with a low turn-on voltage of 3.0 V, which are 217% and 567% higher than the PeLEDs with the pristine PEDOT:PSS layer (turn-on voltage: 3.3 V), respectively.

Graphical abstract: Improved performance of perovskite light-emitting diodes with a NaCl doped PEDOT:PSS hole transport layer

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 Dec 2020
Accepted
09 Mar 2021
First published
09 Mar 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021,9, 4344-4350

Improved performance of perovskite light-emitting diodes with a NaCl doped PEDOT:PSS hole transport layer

X. Huang, R. Bäuerle, F. Scherz, J. Tisserant, W. Kowalsky, R. Lovrinčić and G. Hernandez-Sosa, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 4344 DOI: 10.1039/D0TC06058E

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