“…Recently, non-stoichiometric transition metal oxide, NiO x , has attracted extensive attention as a promising hole-injection/-transporting layer in QLEDs [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ], OLEDs [ 21 , 22 ], perovskite light-emitting diodes [ 23 , 24 ], and perovskite solar cells [ 25 , 26 ]. The approaches to preparing the NiO x layers include vacuum-based techniques (e.g., sputtering [ 11 , 18 ], thermal evaporation [ 25 ], and pulsed-laser deposition [ 26 ]) and solution-based methods (e.g., sol-gel [ 12 , 13 ] and solution-combustion [ 15 , 21 ]).…”