Freezing non-radiative recombination in high-performance CsPbBr3 single crystal x-ray detector

作者：Xiao Zhao, Shimao Wang, Yanan Song, Toru Aoki, V. A. Gnatyuk, Libing You, Zanhong Deng, Ruhua Tao, Xiaodong Fang, Gang Meng · 发表于：Applied Physics Letters · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1063/5.0224223 · 被引用次数：13 · 研究领域：Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials、Perovskite Materials and Applications、Optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials

Though CsPbBr3 single crystals (SCs) possess intriguing photoelectronic properties for x/γ-ray detection, the serious ion migration and high thermally activated carrier concentration at room temperature (RT), typically associated with defect states in CsPbBr3 crystals, result in a high dark current and drift of baseline, hindering their potential applications. In this investigation, liquid nitrogen cooling is proposed to freeze deep-level defects in CsPbBr3 SCs, thereby suppressing the ion migrations and decreasing the thermally excited carrier concentration. Utilizing photoluminescence (PL) and time-resolved PL spectra, coupled with theoretical models for photoexcitation and photoemission processes, the freezing of deep-level defects at liquid nitrogen temperature (LNT) is confirmed, which is conducive to decreasing non-radiative recombination. At LNT, the CsPbBr3 SC exhibits a higher resistivity of 4.95 × 1011 Ω cm and a higher mobility–lifetime product of 9.54 × 10−3 cm2 V−1, in contrast to the RT values of 3.86 × 109 Ω cm and 3.67 × 10−3 cm2 V−1, respectively. Furthermore, the x-ray detector at LNT exhibits a high sensitivity of 9309 μC Gyair−1 cm−2 and an impressively low detection limit of 0.054 nGy s−1, which offers a route for obtaining highly sensitive x-ray detectors for applications including ultra-low dose radiation imaging.