There have been rapidly increasing demands for flexible lighting apparatus, and micrometer-scale light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are regarded as one of the promising lighting sources for deformable device applications. Herein, we demonstrate a method of creating a deformable LED, based on remote heteroepitaxy of GaN microrod (MR) p-n junction arrays on c-Al2O3 wafer across graphene. The use of graphene allows the transfer of MR LED arrays onto a copper plate, and spatially separate MR arrays offer ideal device geometry suitable for deformable LED in various shapes without serious device performance degradation. Moreover, remote heteroepitaxy also allows the wafer to be reused, allowing reproducible production of MR LEDs using a single substrate without noticeable device degradation. The remote heteroepitaxial relation is determined by high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy, and the density functional theory simulations clarify how the remote heteroepitaxy is made possible through graphene.
We demonstrate enhancement of the photoluminescence (PL) properties of individual zero-dimensional (0D) Cs 4 PbBr 6 perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) upon encapsulation by alumina using an appropriately modified atomic layer deposition method. In addition to the increased PL intensity and improved long-term stability of encapsulated PNCs, our single-particle studies reveal substantial changes in the PL blinking statistics and the persistent appearance of the long-lived, "delayed" PL components. The blinking patterns exhibit a modification from the fast switching between fluorescent ON and OFF states found in bare PNCs to a behavior with longer ON states and more isolated OFF states in alumina-encapsulated PNCs. Controlled exposure of 0D nanocrystals to moisture suggests that the observed PL lifetime changes may be related to water-induced "reservoir" states that allow for longer-lived charge storage with subsequent back-feeding into the emissive states. Viable encapsulation of PNCs with metal oxides that can preserve and even enhance their PL properties can be utilized in the fabrication of extended structures on their basis for optoelectronic and photonic applications.
Hybrid organic–inorganic lead
halide perovskites have attracted
much attention in the field of optoelectronic devices because of their
desirable properties such as high crystallinity, smooth morphology,
and well-oriented grains. Recently, it was shown that thermal nanoimprint
lithography (NIL) is an effective method not only to directly pattern
but also to improve the morphology, crystallinity, and crystallographic
orientations of annealed perovskite films. However, the underlining
mechanisms behind the positive effects of NIL on perovskite material
properties have not been understood. In this work, we study the kinetics
of perovskite grain growth with surface energy calculations by first-principles
density functional theory (DFT) and reveal that the surface energy-driven
preferential grain growth during NIL, which involves multiplex processes
of restricted grain growth in the surface-normal direction, abnormal
grain growth, crystallographic reorientation, and grain boundary migration,
is the enabler of the material quality enhancement. Moreover, we develop
an optimized NIL process and prove its effectiveness by employing
it in a perovskite light-emitting electrochemical cell (PeLEC) architecture,
in which we observe a fourfold enhancement of maximum current efficiency
and twofold enhancement of luminance compared to a PeLEC without NIL,
reaching a maximum current efficiency of 0.07598 cd/A at 3.5 V and
luminance of 1084 cd/m2 at 4 V.
We report thermo-mechanically responsive and thermochromic behavior in the single crystalline organic semiconductor butoxyphenyl N-substituted naphthalene diimide (BNDI). We show that initially monoclinic single crystals of BNDI undergo a single-crystal to single-crystal transition to a triclinic phase. This transition accompanies large changes in the crystal packing, a visible decrease in crystal size, reversible thermochromic behavior, and motion including bending, jumping, and splitting. We have shown that by fixing single crystals to a surface, we can harness the energy of the phase transition to create a single crystal cantilever capable of lifting weights with masses nigh two orders of magnitude heavier than the single crystal itself.
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