Strong angular and spectral narrowing of electroluminescence in an integrated Tamm-plasmon-driven halide perovskite LED

Zher Ying Ooi; Alberto Jiménez-Solano; Krzysztof Gałkowski; Yuqi Sun; Jordi Ferrer Orri; Kyle Frohna; Hayden Salway; Simon Kahmann; Shenyu Nie; Guadalupe Vega; Shaoni Kar; Michał P Nowak; Sebastian Maćkowski; Piotr Nyga; Caterina Ducati; Neil C Greenham; Bettina V Lotsch; Miguel Anaya; Samuel D Stranks

doi:10.1038/s41467-024-49838-1

Strong angular and spectral narrowing of electroluminescence in an integrated Tamm-plasmon-driven halide perovskite LED

Nat Commun. 2024 Jul 10;15(1):5802. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49838-1.

Authors

Zher Ying Ooi¹, Alberto Jiménez-Solano^{2

3}, Krzysztof Gałkowski^{4

5

6}, Yuqi Sun⁴, Jordi Ferrer Orri^{4

7}, Kyle Frohna⁴, Hayden Salway¹, Simon Kahmann^{1

4}, Shenyu Nie¹, Guadalupe Vega^{3

8}, Shaoni Kar⁴, Michał P Nowak⁹, Sebastian Maćkowski⁵, Piotr Nyga⁹, Caterina Ducati⁷, Neil C Greenham⁴, Bettina V Lotsch^{2

10

11}, Miguel Anaya^{12

13}, Samuel D Stranks^{14

15}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
² Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany.
³ Departamento de Física, Universidad de Córdoba, Edificio Einstein (C2), Campus de Rabanales, 14071, Córdoba, Spain.
⁴ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁵ Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
⁶ Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland.
⁷ Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁸ Departamento Física de la Materia Condensada, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC, Calle Américo Vespucio 49, Sevilla, 41012, Spain.
⁹ Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
¹⁰ Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Butenandtstrasse 5-13, 81377, Munich, Germany.
¹¹ e-conversion, Lichtenbergstrasse 4a, 85748, Garching, Germany.
¹² Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [email protected].
¹³ Departamento Física de la Materia Condensada, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC, Calle Américo Vespucio 49, Sevilla, 41012, Spain. [email protected].
¹⁴ Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [email protected].
¹⁵ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [email protected].

Abstract

Next-generation light-emitting applications such as displays and optical communications require judicious control over emitted light, including intensity and angular dispersion. To date, this remains a challenge as conventional methods require cumbersome optics. Here, we report highly directional and enhanced electroluminescence from a solution-processed quasi-2-dimensional halide perovskite light-emitting diode by building a device architecture to exploit hybrid plasmonic-photonic Tamm plasmon modes. By exploiting the processing and bandgap tunability of the halide perovskite device layers, we construct the device stack to optimise both optical and charge-injection properties, leading to narrow forward electroluminescence with an angular full-width half-maximum of 36.6° compared with the conventional isotropic control device of 143.9°, and narrow electroluminescence spectral full-width half-maximum of 12.1 nm. The device design is versatile and tunable to work with emission lines covering the visible spectrum with desired directionality, thus providing a promising route to modular, inexpensive, and directional operating light-emitting devices.

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