Fine-Tuning Single-Source White-Light Emission from All-Inorganic Corrugated 2D Antimony-Halide Perovskite

Corrugated 2D antimony-halide perovskites such as Cs3Sb2Cl9 (CSC) are promising candidates for single-source white-light emission due to their ultra-broadband spectra. However, CSC has a serious luminescence quenching phenomenon due to inadequate confinement of excitons. By the homovalent substitution of trivalent antimony cation Sb3+ by a small amount of trivalent rare earth (RE) cations RE3+, the photoluminescence intensities from high-quality Cs-3(Sb1-xREx)(2)Cl-9 (CSRC) (RE = Ce, Sm, Nd, Y, Er, etc.) films at room temperature (RT) are over two orders of magnitude higher than that of CSC film. Especially, the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) for the Cs-3(Sb0.995Er0.005)(2)Cl-9 film is 9.5% at RT, which is much higher than A(3)B(2)X(9) perovskites previously reported for single-source white-light lighting. Furthermore, the Cs-3(Sb0.995Er0.005)(2)Cl-9 film exhibits an ultra-broadband emission with the full width at half maximum reaching 554 meV at RT, resulting in a "warm" white-light with the CIE coordinate (0.33, 0.46) and the correlated color temperature of 5450 K. The PLQY enhancement can be considered as the fact that a high activation energy by bandgap widening effect and Type-I-like "straddling" band alignment between Cs3Sb2Cl9 and Cs3Er2Cl9 lead to reducing nonradiative losses and increasing radiative recombination channels. Meanwhile, the spectral broadening can be considered to be attributed to strong effect of electron-phonon interaction.