Eu3+-Bi3+ co-doping Double Perovskites for Single-Component White Light Emitting Diodes

Abstract

Double perovskites (DPs) with Cs2AgInCl6 composition, as one of the lead-free perovskites, have been in the spotlight owing to their intriguing optical properties, namely, self-trapped exciton (STEs) emission and dopant-induced photoluminescence. However, the current DPs still face the challenge of low photoluminescence efficiency and cannot be applied in practice. Herein, we synthesize the Bi3+ and Eu3+ co-doped Cs2AgInCl6 DPs, which displays enhanced STE and Eu3+ ions characteristic emissions. Our results indicate that the Eu3+ ions mainly substitute the In sites and can increase the radiative recombination rate and exciton binding energy of STEs, which is discovered that Eu3+ ions can promote the localization of STEs by breaking the inversion symmetry of the Cs2AgInCl6 lattice. The existence of Bi3+ ions decreases the excitation (absorption) energy, provides a new absorption channel and increases the energy transfer rate to Eu3+ ions. Through adjusting the Bi3+ and Eu3+ concentrations, a maximum photoluminescence efficiency (PLQY) of 80.1% is obtained in 6% Eu3+ and 0.5% Bi3+ co-doped Cs2AgInCl6 DPs. Finally, the high-quality single-component white light emitting diodes based on Bi3+ and Eu3+ codoped Cs2AgInCl6 DPs and a 410 nm commercial UV chip are fabricated with the optimum color rendering index of 89, the optimal luminous efficiency of 88.1 lm/W and a half-lifetime of 1493 h. This work puts forward an effective lanthanide and transition metals co-doping strategy to design single-component white-light emitter, taking a big step forward for the application lead-free DPs.