Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Highly efficient photoelectric effect in halide perovskites for regenerative electron sources

  • Fangze Liu,
  • Siraj Sidhik,
  • Mark A. Hoffbauer,
  • Sina Lewis,
  • Amanda J. Neukirch,
  • Vitaly Pavlenko,
  • Hsinhan Tsai,
  • Wanyi Nie,
  • Jacky Even,
  • Sergei Tretiak,
  • Pulickel M. Ajayan,
  • Mercouri G. Kanatzidis,
  • Jared J. Crochet,
  • Nathan A. Moody,
  • Jean-Christophe Blancon,
  • Aditya D. Mohite

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-20954-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Electron sources play as important component in a wide range of applications. Here, the authors demonstrate efficient, regenerative, and low-cost electron sources based on solution-processed halide perovskite thin films with quantum efficiency up to 2.2% and a lifetime of more than 25 h.