• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 51, Issue 6, 0616001 (2022)
Chenhui WANG1, Junhu CAI1, Xinpei HU1, Enguo CHEN1、2、*, Sheng XU1、2, Yun YE1、2, and Tailiang GUO1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Physics and Information Engineering,Fuzhou University,Fuzhou 350108,China
  • 2Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China(Mindu Innovation Laboratory),Fuzhou 350108,China
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20225106.0616001 Cite this Article
    Chenhui WANG, Junhu CAI, Xinpei HU, Enguo CHEN, Sheng XU, Yun YE, Tailiang GUO. Research on the Properties of CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots Modified by Ion Exchange Resin[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(6): 0616001 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    All-inorganic perovskite quantum dots have attracted much attention because of their outstanding photoelectric properties. However, the instability of PQDs to the environment has become a potential threat that restricts its practical application. At present, a large number of scientific studies have been devoted to improving the stability of PQDs. However, most of the current stability improvement schemes are to encapsulate PQDs in hydrophobic materials to provide a physical barrier against environmental changes, while the defects and unstable performance of materials themselves have not been effectively improved. It is therefore of great significance to study the corresponding performance and stability improvement schemes from the PQDs material itself.Ion exchange resin is a kind of polymer compound with a functional group, a network structure and insolubility. As for anion exchange resin, its active group can adsorb different types of anions to achieve ion exchange reaction, while PQDs is a kind of ionic compound containing halogen anions, and the two have a good binding ability. In this study, the performance and stability of CsPbBr3 PQDs were improved simultaneously by introducing defect passivation and selective removal of ion exchange resin. The product PQDs prepared by high temperature thermal injection method was named as the original sample, and the sample treated with Br type anion exchange resin was named as the modified sample. From direct observation of their appearance, the original sample is yellow-brown, while the modified sample after ion exchange resin treatment is transparent green. The resean is the large number of micropores in the ion exchange resin, which has strong an adsorption capacity comparable to activated carbon, and can selectively adsorb and remove organic impurities. TEM images show that the original sample has poor surface morphology. In contrast, the modified samples treated with ion-exchange resin show clear cubic phase with almost no surface damage or structural distortion. It is worth mentioning that continuous UV excitation and high temperature environment will lead to partial crystal phase separation of PQDs, and the surface ligand will fall off, resulting in grain agglomeration and decreased fluorescence intensity. The luminescence intensity of the original sample and the modified sample decreases to 80.6% and 85.7% respectively after 3 h of UV excitation, and to 75.2% and 99.6% respectively after 2 hours of 70℃ heating. Obviously, the fluorescence intensity attenuation of the modified sample is relatively less, showing more excellent stability. It is worth noting that after high temperature heating, the fluorescence intensity of the modified sample almost does not decay, showing excellent thermal stability. Compared with the original sample, the modified sample also had a longer average fluorescence lifetime. The third-order exponential decay model was used to fit the fluorescence lifetime curve, and the results show that the average fluorescence lifetime of the original sample and the modified sample was 10.4 ns and 22.2 ns, respectively. The defects in the crystal will act as the center of non-radiation recombination to inhibit the radiation recombination process, and the increase of the final average fluorescence life indicates that the radiation recombination is enhanced, which also reflects the reduction of defect states from the side. The improvement of average fluorescence lifetime indicates that the excess halogen anions released by anion exchange resin contribute largely to the passivation of surface defects and the improvement of optical properties of PQDs. The PLQY of the original sample and the modified sample were 53.23% and 90.00%, respectively. Such a large increase in PLQY is not only due to the direct band gap characteristics of the material itself, which can improve the light absorption coefficient and speed up the radiation recombination rate, but also due to the passivation of excessive halogen anions on the surface defects of quantum dots, thus reducing a large number of non-radiation recombination paths.In summary, the introduction of ion exchange resin can selectively remove PQDs single crystals with poor morphology and unstable structure without changing the inherent crystal phase of PQDs, which makes the surface morphology and uniformity of the prepared PQDs greatly improved. And the stability of PQDs has also been greatly improved under long-term ultraviolet light and high temperature experiments. Moreover, before and after modification, the photoluminescence quantum yield and fluorescence lifetime of CsPbBr3 PQDs were significantly increased from 53.23% to 90.00% and from 10.4 ns to 22.2 ns, respectively. This research provides a new idea for improving the performance and stability of PQDs. Due to the reproducible and low-cost characteristics of ion exchange resins, it has broad application prospects in the field of optoelectronics.
    Chenhui WANG, Junhu CAI, Xinpei HU, Enguo CHEN, Sheng XU, Yun YE, Tailiang GUO. Research on the Properties of CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots Modified by Ion Exchange Resin[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(6): 0616001
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