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To improve the quality and durability of inorganic halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs), ammonium halide and lead oxide (PbO) were separately employed for the synthesis of NCs with a tunable ratio of metal to halide. The halide-rich circumstance was therefore successfully set up and found to be beneficial for obtaining good quality NCs with high photoluminescence quantum yields and remarkable stability against purification compared to those qualities of previous regular methods with lead halide. The fabricated light-emitting diode (LED) devices with NCs made in a halide-rich circumstance demonstrated performance better than that of devices with NCs made in a halide-poor circumstance. A LED with CsPbBr 3 NCs with a 1:4 Pb:Br ratio showed an obvious improved maximal luminance of 12090 cd m −2 , a current efficiency of 3.1 cd A −1 , and an external quantum efficiency of 1.194%, which were much higher than those of devices with NCs synthesized by the regular method.

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Luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) incorporated with quantum dots (QDs) have been widely regarded as one of the most important development trends of cost-effective solar energy. In this study, for the first time we report a new QDs-LSC integrated with heavy metal free CuInS2/ZnS core/shell QDs with large Stokes shift and high optical efficiency. The as-prepared CuInS2/ZnS QDs possess advantages of high photoluminescence quantum yield of 81% and large Stocks shift more than 150 nm. The optical efficiency of CuInS2/ZnS QDs-LSC reaches as high as 26.5%. Moreover, the power conversion efficiency of the QDs-LSC-PV device reaches more than 3 folds to that of pure PMMA-PV device. Furthermore, the PV device is able to harvest 4.91 folds solar energy with the assistance of this new CuInS2/ZnS QDs-LSC for the same size c-Si PV cell. The results demonstrate that this new CuInS2/ZnS QDs-LSC provides a promising way for the high efficiency, nonhazardous and low cost solar energy.