iScience (Oct 2023)

Cascade perovskite single crystal for gamma-ray spectroscopy

  • Xin Wang,
  • Yuzhu Pan,
  • Yubing Xu,
  • Jingda Zhao,
  • Yuwei Li,
  • Qing Li,
  • Jing Chen,
  • Zhiwei Zhao,
  • Xiaobing Zhang,
  • Byung Seong Bae,
  • Damian C. Onwudiwe,
  • Xiaobao Xu,
  • Wei Lei

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 10
p. 107935

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Summary: The halide lead perovskite single crystals (HLPSCs) have great potential in gamma-ray detection with high attenuation coefficient, strong defects tolerance, and large mobility-lifetime product. However, mobile halide ions would migrate under high external bias, which would both weaken the gamma-ray response and cause additional noise. Here, we report the gamma-ray PIN photodiodes made of cascade HLPSCs including both ion-formed and electron-hole-formed electrical junctions that could suppress the ions migration and improve the charges collection. Our photodiodes based on cascade HLPSCs (MAPbBr3/MAPbBr2.5Cl0.5/MAPbCl3) show a wide halide-ion-formed depletion layer of ∼52 μm. The built-in potential along the wide ionic-formed junction ensures a high mobility-lifetime product of 1.1 × 10−2 cm2V−1. As a result, our gamma-ray PIN photodiodes exhibit compelling response to 241Am, 137Cs, and 60Co; the energy resolution can reach 9.4%@59.5keV and 5.9%@662keV, respectively. This work provides a new path toward constructing high-performance gamma-ray detectors based on HLPSCs.

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