Materials science

Layer (electronics)

Dopant

Formamidinium

Perovskite (structure)

Photoluminescence

Inorganic chemistry

Electroluminescence

Diode

Nanotechnology

Organic chemistry

Amine gas treating

Doping

Blueshift

Crystallography

Chemistry

Light-emitting diode

Optoelectronics

Halide

Science Bulletin

Voltage loading-induced change in the electroluminescence (EL) wavelength of mixed halide perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs), so-called color-shift, has become an inevitable phenomenon, which is seriously unfavorable to their applications in lighting and display. Here, we achieve color-stable blue PeLEDs via a hydrogen-bonded amine-group doping strategy. Selecting guanidine (GA) or formamidinium (FA) as amine-group (-NH2) doping source for CsPbBrxCl3-x quantum dots (QDs), experimental and theoretical results reveal that the strong N-H⋯X (X = Br/Cl) bonding can be produced between -NH2 dopants and Pb-X lattices, thereby increasing the migration barrier of halide anions. Resultantly, color-stable sky-blue devices were realized with emission peaks fixed at 490.5 (GA) and 492.5 (FA) nm without any obvious shift as the voltage increases, in sharp contrast devices without N-H⋯X producing a 15 nm red-shift from 487 to 502 nm. Not only that, maximum external quantum efficiency is improved to 3.02% and 4.14% from the initial 1.3%. This finding offers a convenient boulevard to achieve color-stable PeLEDs with high efficiency.

Stabilizing electroluminescence color of blue perovskite LEDs via amine group doping