"Liquid Knife" to Fabricate Patterning Single-Crystalline Perovskite Microplates toward High-Performance Laser Arrays

Adv Mater. 2016 May;28(19):3732-41. doi: 10.1002/adma.201505952. Epub 2016 Mar 22.

Abstract

A facile and effective "liquid knife" is created by controlling the dewetting process of the liquid precursor, yielding patterning single-crystalline perovskite microplates with uniform size, precise positioning, high quality, and low lasing thresholds. The sizes and location of single-crystalline perovskite are controllable, leading to mode-tunable lasing emission and patterned lasers.

Keywords: lasers; perovskites; self-assembly; single crystals; wettability.