Lead?Free Halide Double Perovskite Materials: A New Superstar Toward Green and Stable Optoelectronic Applications

Lead-based halide perovskites have emerged as excellent semiconductors for a broad range of optoelectronic applications, such as photovoltaics, lighting, lasing and photon detection. However, toxicity of lead and poor stability still represent significant challenges. Fortunately, halide double perovskite materials with formula of A_2M(I)M(III)X_6 or A_2M(IV)X_6 could be potentially regarded as stable and green alternatives for optoelectronic applications, where two divalent lead ions are substituted by combining one monovalent and one trivalent ions, or one tetravalent ion. Here, the article provides an up-to-date review on the developments of halide double perovskite materials and their related optoelectronic applications including photodetectors, X-ray detectors, photocatalyst, light-emitting diodes and solar cells. The synthesized halide double perovskite materials exhibit exceptional stability, and a few possess superior optoelectronic properties. However, the number of synthesized halide double perovskites is limited, and more limited materials have been developed for optoelectronic applications to date. In addition, the band structures and carrier transport properties of the materials are still not desired, and the films still manifest low quality for photovoltaic applications. Therefore, we propose that continuing e orts are needed to develop more halide double perovskites, modulate the properties and grow high-quality films, with the aim of opening the wild practical applications.

Novel photoelectric material of perovskite-like(CH_(3))_(3)SPbI_(3) nanorod arrays with high stability

Organometallic halide perovskite materials make great achievements in optoelectronic fields,especially in solar cells,in which the organic cations contain amine components.However,the amine with NàH bonds is easily hydrolyzed with moisture in the air,weakening the perovskite materials stability.It is desirable to develop other non-amine stable perovskite materials.In this work,sulfur-based perovskite-like(CH_(3))_(3)SPbI_(3) nanorod arrays were fabricated by a solution-processed method,which can be indexed hexagonal crystal structure in the space group P63 mc.The binding force is exceptionally strong between the non-amine(CH_(3))_(3) S+and[PbI_(6)]_(4)-octahedral,leading to high stability of(CH_(3))_(3)SPbI_(3).The(CH_(3))_(3)SPbI_(3) nanorod arrays can keep the morphology and crystal structure in an ambient atmosphere over 60 days.In addition,the(CH_(3))_(3)SPbI_(3) nanorod arrays can offer direct charge transfer channels,which show excellent optoelectronic properties.The(CH_(3))_(3)SPbI_(3) nanorod arrays-based solar cells with VOx hole transfer layers achieved a power conversion efficiency of 2.07%with negligible hysteresis.And the(CH_(3))_(3)SPbI_(3) nanorod arrays were also effectively applied in photodetectors with interdigitated gold electrodes.This work demonstrates that sulfur-based perovskite-like(CH_(3))_(3)SPbI_(3) is a novel promising stable compound with great potential for practical optoelectronic applications.

Light-Emitting Artificial Synapses for Neuromorphic Computing

As the key connecting points in the neuromorphic computing systems,synaptic devices have been investigated substantially in recent years.Developing optoelectronic synaptic devices with optical outputs is becoming attractive due to many benefits of optical signals in systems.

A micro-spectrometer with phase modulation array

A micro-spectrometer with phase modulation array is investigated in this paper. The vital component of this micro-spectrometer is a micro-interferometer array, which is built on a charge-coupled device （CCD） or a complementary metal oxide semiconductor （CMOS）. Each element of micro-interferometer array is formed by polymethyl methacrylate （PMMA） grooves with different depth. When we illuminate the surface of the interferom- eter array, different interference intensity distribution would be formed at the bottom of each micro-interferom- eter. Optical power of this by the pixels of CCD substituted into a linear interferometer can be measured or CMOS. The data can be system. By solving the linear system with Tikhonov regularization method, spectrum of the incident beam can be reconstructed. Simulation results prove that the detection range of the spectrometer is a wide wavelength range covering from 300 to 1100 nm. Furthermore, the wavelength resolution of the device reaches picometer level. In comparison with conventional spectrometers, the novel spectrometer has distinct advan- tages of small size, low cost, high resolution, wide spectral measurement range, real-time measurement, and so on.