Solution-phase, template-free synthesis of PbI 2 and MAPbI 3 nano/microtubes for high-sensitivity photodetectors

Perumal Veeramalai Chandrasekar, Shengyi Yang*, Jinming Hu, Muhammad Sulaman, Yuansheng Shi, Muhammad Imran Saleem, Yi Tang, Yurong Jiang, Bingsuo Zou

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Abstract

Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials with exotic semiconducting properties have become inevitable candidates for next-generation electronic devices. Very recently, a low dimensional nanostructure of the perovskite materials has attracted the scientific community due to its enhanced performance in optoelectronics as compared to its bulk counterparts. Herein, a facile method was developed for the scalable, room-temperature synthesis of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 (MAPbI 3 ) nano/microtubes by direct conversion of lead iodide (PbI 2 ) microtubes through a solution-phase method. At first, the PbI 2 microtubes were synthesized by the anti-solvent crystallization process and subsequently converted to CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 nano/microtubes by the addition of CH 3 NH 3 I (MAI) precursor directly in the solution phase. The corresponding photodetectors (PDs) in the lateral metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) configuration of the PbI 2 microtubes and MAPbI 3 nano/microtubes on glass substrates were investigated systematically. Compared to the PbI 2 based PDs (557 mA W -1 , 3.65 × 10 12 Jones, 0.251 s/0.252 s), the MAPbI 3 based PDs exhibit higher photoresponsivity, specific detectivity, and faster response time (25 A W -1 , 9.9 × 10 13 Jones, 49 ms/20 ms) under irradiation with 4.6 μW cm -2 intensity light of the 532 nm laser at a bias of 5 V. The proposed method is a low-temperature process, easy to apply in large scale synthesis, and finds potential applications in optoelectronic devices.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5188-5196
Number of pages9
JournalNanoscale
Volume11
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Mar 2019

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